About the FLEX discography of US punk & hardcore

WARNING

This is a PUNK discography. If you are easily offended by liberal language, political views etc., stay out. (It's not that bad, really.)

WRITERS

written & edited by Burkhard Jaerisch (all unmarked reviews).

HALL OF FAME (co-authors)

  • Burkhard Jaerisch (all unmarked reviews, or BJ)
  • Karl-Heinz Stille (KS) 272 reviews
  • Thomas Lindenbaum (TL) 82 reviews
  • Tilmann Breitkreuz (TB) 73 reviews
  • Thomas Koch (TK) 32 reviews
  • Thomas Milewski (TM) 29 reviews
  • Andrea Trombetti (AT) 29 reviews
  • Christian Schaub (CS) 26 reviews
  • Uwe Kleinert (UK) 22 reviews
  • Dierk Rossiwall (DR) 20 reviews
  • Ben Scholle (BS) 20 reviews
  • Edwin Feenstra (EF) 18 reviews
  • Joe Saehrig (JS) 17 reviews
  • Sascha Scheuermann (SS) 12 reviews
  • Henning Roser (HR) 12 reviews
  • Martin Niemitz (MN) 12 reviews
  • Carsten Doerrie (CD) 11 reviews
  • Reinhard Fey (RF) 11 reviews
  • Andreas Vogt (AV) 11 reviews
  • Ben Sinister (BE) 10 reviews
  • Racing Rabbit (RR) 10 reviews
  • Mark Murrman (MM) 8 reviews
  • Volker Brachvogel (VB) 8 reviews
  • Gert Weiß (GW) 6 reviews
  • Nils Post (NP) 5 reviews
  • Chuck Lambert (CL) 5 reviews
  • Chris Gear (CG) 4 reviews
  • Ryan Wong (RW) 4 reviews
  • Richard Kilby (RK) 4 reviews
  • Alan Wood (AW) 3 reviews
  • Timo Iden (TI) 2 reviews
  • Ola Sjöholm (OS) 2 reviews
  • Josh Martin (JO) 2 reviews
  • Jan Gallhuber (JG) 2 reviews
  • Rick Andraschko (RA) 2 reviews
  • Alex / Beartcrew (AB) 2 reviews
  • Bernhard Dorninger (BR) 2 reviews
  • Davo Axiom (DA) 2 reviews
  • Martin Farkas (MF) 2 reviews
  • Erich Keller (EK) 2 reviews
  • Zero (ZE) 2 reviews
  • Luc Ardilouze (LA) 2 reviews
  • Mike Bullshit (MB) 1 review
  • Moritz Gottwald (MG) 1 review
  • Lil Mike (LM) 1 review
  • M. (MS) 1 review
  • Carl Cordova (CC) 1 review
  • Masaru Nishitani (MA) 1 review
  • Nils Post (NP) 1 review
  • Mike Millam (MI) 1 review
  • Bill Skoulas (BI) 1 review
  • Andy Nystrom (AN) 1 review
  • Scott Beibin (SB) 1 review
  • Jason Mckelvie (JM) 1 review
  • Brian Dropdead (BD) 1 review
  • Jeremy Schwab (JE) 1 review

COVERAGE

I have reviewed US releases in all formats, from all years and from a variety of styles, as long as they roughly fall into the punk/hardcore/underground/ rough guitars category. There is special emphasis on three things, though:

  1. #1 - The 80's - because this was the time that impressed me most
  2. #2 - 7”s - because I just love them and they were the medium for independent punk from the beginning.
  3. #3 - Vinyl. I am not a purist and I am not opposed to CDs per se, but I have to admit that I find them largely uninteresting and - most of the time - kind of ugly. So of course there are CD reviews and I am also listing CD reissues whenever I have the info but I am not hunting down CD information with the same intensity as vinyl pressing info. Expect a good coverage of 80's vinyl (especially 7”s) and decent coverage of relevant 70's 7” and LP releases - some of the ultra-obscure Killed by Death records are listed, others aren't. There are far too many 90's releases to list them all, but there's a good deal of 7”s included and some of the more relevant LPs and CDs thrown in, too. I have also tried to include some of the better releases from the “new school” of hardcore. This is by no means complete or even representative; take it as a starting point.

SLEEVES

I have scanned all sleeves I had access to. Many people have helped and sent scans of record sleeves that they own (thanks again!!!). I have found some of the missing sleeves on the web, too. Where all these sources failed, I scanned the old sleeve xeroxes I still had from the first FLEX book (better than nothing…)

A few reviews are completely sleeve-less. I will try to track down these missing ones and post them on the FLEX website, so you can download them, print them out and paste them onto the provided places in the book. If you have any records without a sleeve or with a poor-quality picture please get in touch with me. Please don't send any scans without contacting me first to prevent double work or double download times.

  • ORDER Alphabetically
  • Numbers are treated as words (7 Seconds = Seven Seconds)
  • English articles (“the”, “a” etc.) are omitted (The Misfits are filed under “M”)
  • Foreign articles are regarded as part of the band name: Die Kreuzen are filed under “D”, La Peste under “L”
  • Blank spaces have priority: “No Use For A Name” are filed before “Nomeansno”.
  • Solo musicians or bands of a musician are filed under their last name (Greg Sage under S).
  • Bands whose names contain a name that doesn't have anything to do with the band members are filed under the first name (Bob Evans under B)
  • Bands that slightly alter their name (like SS Decontrol/SSD, Flag of Democracy/FOD) are mostly filed under one name except when the band name has been changed completely (FU's - Straw Dogs).

RATING SYSTEM

Please don't take these ratings too seriously, they're highly subjective. But you can mostly rely on the fact that a record rated [2] just isn't worth getting, while most people will like a [10] record.

  • [0]: garbage
  • [1]: almost worthless…
  • [2]: annoying
  • [3]: boring
  • [4]: not too interesting
  • [5]: average
  • [6]: not bad
  • [7]: good
  • [8]: great
  • [9]: incredible
  • [10]: all-time classic

A [6] rating means that the record is good but not too original, or that the production's just too weak. [7] means it really is a good record that deserves to be heard, [8] is a record that you can listen to over & over again without getting tired, [9] is a record that's just great, in any sense of the word. [10] means it's got that magic touch that makes it a true classic.

  • RATING SYSTEM FOR LIVE RECORDINGS poor - real poor bootleg sound quality
  • below average - very noisy
  • average - well…
  • above average - not bad, even enjoyable
  • good - good audience or average soundboard quality
  • very good - good soundboard recording
  • excellent - professional recording, not (much) worse than studio quality

ABBREVIATIONS

  • Countries: A - Austria
  • AUS - Australia
  • B - Belgium
  • BRA - Brazil
  • CAN or CDN - Canada
  • CH - Switzerland
  • D - Germany
  • F - France
  • J or JAP - Japan
  • MEX - Mexico
  • NL - Holland
  • P - Poland
  • SA - South Africa
  • UK - United Kingdom
  • Formats: 12” - 45 rpm 12” EP
  • mLP - 33 rpm 12” EP (mini LP; generally up to 6 tracks)
  • LP - you figure it out
  • 7” - 45 single or 7” EP
  • mCD - CD EP (usually plays less than 20 minutes)
  • CD - regular 5” CD
  • 3”CD - a small 3” CD (not too common anymore)
  • 2xLP/2×7” etc. - double LP / 7” / etc.
  • other: US/UK - there's a US and a UK pressing.
  • RI - reissue
  • HC - hardcore (wow)
  • NYHC - New York City hardcore
  • DCHC - Washington DC hardcore (you get the idea)
  • SE - straight edge
  • HM - heavy metal

BOOKS

Unfortunately there are not too many books on US punk records. Here's a small list of books I found on the subject.

  • Volume - International Discography of the New Wave - by B. George and Martha DeFoe. One Ten Records/Volume, New York, 1980 The first attempt to list all released “new wave” records (up to 1980). Unfortunately there's no comment on musical styles or anything else besides the record listing. Most bands are listed with their line-up, though. Only a small fraction of picture sleeves is shown, also there's quite a few errors (the most famous example probably being The Misfits' Barbie bites the Dust 7”). Strange enough, some records that are included in the first volume are missing in the second. Also there are different picture sleeves shown in both books; so this first volume might still be interesting to some collectors.
  • International Discography of the New Wave, Volume 1982/83 - by B. George and Martha DeFoe. One Ten Records/Omnibus Press, New York / London / Sydney / Cologne, 1983. The second volume. This is the big black book that's usually referred to when speaking of the “International Discography”. A large, 700-paged book that's been proven to be very useful to me, even though there are the same problems as with #1. The addresses of labels & fanzines are long outdated, but the sheer number of records included makes this an essential book for any punk collector (as the data collection stopped early 1982 this is not very useful to hardcore purists, though). Please note that this project is carried on by Henry Weld on the Web (see Internet section)
  • Smash the State - by Frank Manley. No Exit, Westmount, 1992 THE book on Canadian punk and hardcore (1977 to 1992); the coverage is excellent. This is basically a listing, about 20% of the records are shown with sleeves. No reviews. This really needs to be reprinted.
  • The New Trouser Press Record Guide - by Ira A. Robbins. Collier Books, New York, 1989 (third edition) A cool book if you're into worlwide New Wave in general. There's only reviews of LPs, but the selection of bands is good and usually all LPs by a band are reviewed. There aren't too many punk & hardcore bands, and the reviewer tends to have kind of a high-brow attitude towards music, but on the other hand, most of the bands you would consider as “important” are there (down to the “level” of, let's say, the Big Boys); also some that you definitely wouldn't (Black Randy!). The only problem I have with this book is that I often disagree with the reviewer, but that's a matter of taste I guess. I think there are newer editions of this book, but it has been out of print for a few years now.
  • There is also a book about punk compilations that I was never able to buy.
  • Other books on US punk & hardcore that I liked include “Street Art” by B. Davis, P. Belsito and M. Kester (1981). A book on the poster and flyer art of the early West Coast scene.
  • “Hardcore California” by Bob Davis and Peter Belsito (1983). A great history of the early LA & SF scene, tons of photos and good info.
  • “Make the Music go Bang” by Dan Snowden (1997). Good book on the early LA punk scene.
  • “Forming - The early days of LA punk” (1999). Another nice book about the early LA scene with lots of pix and good essays.
  • “Punk '77” by James Stark (1992). Said to be the best book about the early San Francisco punk scene.
  • “Making a Scene” by Bri Hurley (1989). Photo book about the NYHC scene in the 80's, great pix and interesting statements by scenesters
  • “Banned in DC” by Cynthia Connolly and Sharon Cheslow. A great book about the DC scene, mainly photos with statements by scenesters
  • “The Dance of Days” by M. Andersen/M. Jenkins (2001). The history of DC hardcore in incredible detail.
  • “All Ages Show” by Beth Lahickey (1997). Great interviews with pioneers of the straight edge scene.
  • “Fucked up and photocopied” by B. Turcotte/C.Miller. Flyers, posters and photos, full color high gloss - a perfect punk rock coffee table book.
  • “Rock and the Pop Narcotic” by Joe Carducci (1990/94). A rollercoaster ride through the history of rock music with a focus on 80's indie music
  • “We owe you nothing” by Dan Sinker (2001). A collection of some of Punk Planet's great interviews
  • “Loud 3-D”, “My Rules” and “If Life is a bowl of cherries” are all cool photo zines with great pictures of our favorite 80's bands

This is a personal and highly subjective list of stuff I really like.

  • US PUNK 1976 - 1979 Avengers - s/t 12” (White Noise)
  • Crime - hot wire my heart 7”
  • Cinecyde - i left my heart in detroit city LP
  • The Dickies - incredible shrinking dickies LP
  • The Diodes - released LP
  • The Enemy - bang bang you're dead 7”
  • The Eyes - TAQN / topological lies 7”
  • Fear - i love livin in the city / now your dead 7”
  • Huns - busy kids / glad he's dead 7”
  • Me want Breakfast - comp. LP
  • The Middle Class - out of vogue 7”
  • Shock - this generation's on vacation 7”
  • Weirdos - we got the neutron bomb 7”
  • US PUNK & HARDCORE 1980 - 1989 Adolescents - s/t LP
  • Adrenalin OD - wacky hi-jinks LP
  • Agent Orange - living in darkness LP
  • Angry Samoans - back from samoa LP
  • Articles of Faith - give thanks LP
  • Bad Brains - rock for light LP
  • Bad Religion - no control LP
  • Big Black - songs about fucking LP
  • Big Boys - lullabies help the brain grow LP
  • Black Flag - damaged LP
  • Black Market Baby - senseless offerings LP
  • Bullet LaVolta - same 12” / dead wrong 12”
  • Chain of Strength - true till death 7”
  • Cinecyde - i left my heart in detroit city LP
  • Dag Nasty - can i say LP
  • Dead Kennedys - fresh fruit… LP
  • Deep Wound - s/t 7”
  • D.I. - horse bites dog cries LP
  • The Dickies - dawn of the dickies LP
  • Die Kreuzen - s/t LP
  • DRI - dirty rotten 7”
  • DYS - brotherhood 12”
  • Embrace - s/t LP
  • F.U.'s - my america 12”
  • Gorilla Biscuits - start today LP
  • Gray Matter - take it back mLP
  • Hüsker Dü - everything falls apart 12” and Zen arcade 2xLP
  • Hypnotics - indoor fiends LP
  • Ill Repute - what happens next 12”
  • Impatient Youth - s/t 7”
  • The Lewd - american wino LP
  • Minor Threat - in my eyes 7”
  • Misfits - beware 12”
  • Mission of Burma - academy fight song 7”
  • The Mob - step forward 7”
  • Moving Targets - burning in water LP
  • Negative Approach - s/t 7” and Tied down LP
  • One Last Wish - 1986 CD
  • Rites of Spring - s/t LP
  • 7 Seconds - the crew LP
  • Septic Death - now that i have the attention LP
  • Siege - drop dead CD
  • SS Decontrol - get it away mLP
  • Terminal Mind - s/t 7”
  • 3 (Three) - dark days coming LP
  • Wipers - youth of america LP
  • Youth of Today - we're not in this alone LP
  • US PUNK & HARDCORE 1990 - 2000 Burn - s/t 7”
  • Charles Bronson - youth attack LP
  • Earth Crisis - firestorm 7”
  • The Forbidden Dimension - sin gallery CD
  • His Hero is Gone - fifteen counts of arson LP
  • Jawbox - for your own special sweetheart CD
  • Masters of the Obvious - this corpse is… CD
  • Naked Raygun - raygun… naked raygun CD
  • Rocket from the Crypt - circa: now LP
  • Rocket from the Crypt - scream, dracula… CD
  • Versus - let's electrify CD
  • 15 HARDCORE RECORDS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM All is Suffering - s/t 7”
  • Botch - we are the romans CD
  • Cave In - until your heart stops CD and Jupiter CD
  • Champs - c4am95 2xLP
  • Dillinger Escape Plan - calculating infinity CD
  • Discordance Axis - inalienable dreamless CD
  • Isis - celestial CD
  • Jerome´s Dream - seeing means more… 10”
  • Love Lost but not Forgotten - s/t CD
  • pg. 99 - document #5 LP and Document #8 CD
  • Pig Destroyer - explosions in ward 6 12”
  • Racebannon - first there was the emptiness LP
  • Usurp Synapse / Hassan i Sabbah - split 7”

INTERNET

There are a lot of Internet sites that either collect record reviews or are dedicated to a certain scene or band. I am just listing some of the more obvious; they are a great addition or alternative to this book, and a starting point to other sites. For tons of other links, just go to www.google.com (the best search engine) and type in search terms such as hardcore, punk, discography, review, etc.

FLEX online

This has been up and running for a few years and it's a good tool I think, even more so since you have a searchable database, so you can finally compile that list of songs about Reagan. This hasn't been updated for quite a while, but a major relaunch is on the way for 2002.

  • FLEX online - This has been up and running for a few years and it's a good tool I think, even more so since you have a searchable database, so you can finally compile that list of songs about Reagan. This hasn't been updated for quite a while, but a major relaunch is on the way for 2009.
  • Volume 3 - The attempt to update the legendary Volume 2 of the International Discography of the New Wave online. Henry tries to compile info on all US punk records from 1976 to 1983, with lots of pic sleeves and even some short reviews. Definitely the best Ramones discography on the web, too. Hardcore is definitely not the focus here, though. A great job.
  • Misfits Central (aka Misfits Bible) - The best and unbeatable source for everything Misfit. Discographies in unbelievable detail, pictures, lyrics, etc etc. Just great. Some Misfits info in this book would never have surfaced if it weren't for Mark's work.
  • Revelation - the final word - Indeed, the “final word” in Revelation collecting. Anything you'll ever want to know about Revelation pressings. I have to thank Kevin for letting me use information from this site.
  • Pusfan - Tons of info for the Pushead fan - discographies, infos and of course lots of pictures. Kudos to David for the great work.
  • CompHELLation - Icki's quest to list all rare punk bootleg comps - good luck! Killed by Death, Bloodstains, Back to Front and all the obscure ones. You can search by compilation, by band or by country. A great resource. (KBD bootleggers should take a look so they don't repeat themselves over and over again.)
  • Hyped to Death - You can buy CD-Rs with lots of the obscure & rare records in this book here.
  • World Wide Punk - A link collection with thousands of listings of bands, labels, distros, but also record and punk movie reviews.
  • Ox Review Archive - Thousands of record reviews from the printed issues of Germany's largest punk fanzine; reviews only, no pressing info etc. A great resource for world wide 90's punk, but it's all in German.

ORIGINAL PREFACE TO THE FLEX BOOK

Welcome to the second FLEX book. The first book came out in 1992 and sold out within a few weeks. However, the book had been so much work that I swore I would NEVER reprint it. Well, the fact that you're reading this shows that I have changed my mind. Don't ask me why, but I decided to do a larger, improved and completely revised version. The old book had cover xeroxes - some were so poor that you couldn't see anything on them. So I spent a year scanning and photographing thousands of records, then months layouting the whole 720 pages in Word (an adventure for itself, I can assure you…).

An awful lot has changed in the past ten years. People and bands have come and gone, a lot of pleasant and also some unpleasant things. In my opinion, though, there are three fundamental things that have shaped the hardcore scene in the 90's like no other: Nirvana, Green Day and the Internet.

Nirvana and the rise of Grunge was the first time a punk subgenre was successfully sold to the US mainstream market. The commercial breakthrough of Green Day, Offspring and other melodic hardcore bands was the first time hardcore music itself was successfully marketed in the US mainstream market, without even having to use test-tube bands. The internet started a new era with a huge boost to DIY culture, peer to peer (or punk to punk) communication. Some of the basic punk rock networking activities of the 80's - like writing letters, doing zines or trading tapes - have been enhanced and facilitated by the Internet: How about sending messages at light speed, presenting your e-zine to millions of potential readers at nearly zero cost and trading music (MP3s) without even having to leave your room? On the other hand, there was the alleged “new economy” which has been affecting a lot of people in the scene in a good or bad sense; and don't forget the new possibilities for big brother for controlling our communication. Record trading has undergone massive changes in the 90's as well. What began as a harmless “send me a stack of vinyl and I'll send one back” had already turned into serious record collecting towards the end of the 80's. But record hunting was still an adventure, and it took months and years to track down that rare pressing you had to have. The online auctions, especially ebay, have changed that completely. What used to be a community is now a marketplace. You can now find most of the rarest records within a matter of days, provided you are willing to spend a four-figure amount. Is that progress? However, it would be too easy to dismiss the auction thing as evil moneymaking, because at the same time it definitely is a great tool to find lots and lots of obscure and not so rare records cheaply and easily.

I admit that I was kind of bored with the development in the hardcore scene in the mid 90's - it just seemed all too retro, the same patterns repeated over and over. It took bands like His Hero is Gone, Reversal of Man, Cave In, Jeromes Dream, Pig Destroyer, Isis, pg 99, the Champs, Discordance Axis, Dillinger Escape Plan or Racebannon to bring back my excitement. As different as they might be, these bands have re-defined hardcore for me, something which was urgently needed in a culture of “old school” retro music.

A guide through the ever growing jungle of punk and hardcore is still needed - probably more than ever. A lot of the old stuff is either being hyped to death or almost forgotten. And as for the newer music, I guess very few people can claim they have complete overview over just one sub-genre - let alone larger parts of the “underground”. What I want this book to be is a resource, an introduction, a guide, a suggestion, a documentation. What I don't want it to be is a punk record price book, a faceless collector scum catalog or a showcase for rare records. I hope you can use it to find music you like and find the version you want.

This new FLEX book is as far from perfect as the first one. A lot of errors have been corrected, a lot of data has been added, but there are new reviews, new errors, new omissions. I know all that and it still doesn't keep me from releasing this book. Why? I think it's better to have an imperfect tool to work with than no tool at all. FLEX is and will always be a work in progress. There will be output in the form of mags, books and the web site, it will grow and improve - but it will never be complete or perfect. In this sense, there are still a few missing sleeves that we couldn't get hold of. We will gradually add these to our Website, so you can download them, print them out and paste them into the provided spaces in the book. So please, if you own records whose sleeves are not shown herein, please get in touch!!

The future of FLEX depends on your cooperation. See an error? Report it. Can't find your favorite record? Review it. Think the sleeve scan is lousy? Supply a better one. This book is my proposal, it's up to you to improve it.

Have fun & all the best.

PS: I am extremely interested in any zines, articles, books or firsthand testimonies on the economics of punk and hardcore: Stories of running a label, distros going bankrupt or being highly successful, bands signing major label contracts or rejecting them etc etc… If you have any material or would agree to be interviewed on that topic please get in touch with me!!
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ORIGINAL PREFACE TO THE FLEX BOOK (German)

Willkommen zum neuen FLEX-Buch. Falls Ihr auch eines von den alten abbekommen habt, und Eures genauso auseinanderfällt wie meines, werdet Ihr mir zustimmen, dass es höchste Zeit für ein neues war. Ich habe mich also ein paar Jahre lang auf den Hosenboden gesetzt und die alte Version des Buches runderneuert. Was soll ich sagen? Ich hoffe, dass es Euch gefällt und es Euch dabei hilft, gute Musik zu finden. Alles weitere könnt Ihr links lesen.

Auch in Deutschland hat sich seit 1992 einiges getan. Die Grunge-Welle kam und ging auch in Europa, und nicht wenige Labels und Vertriebe sind damit großgeworden - und wieder untergegangen. Der klassische Fehler war wohl, dass die meisten nicht damit gerechnet hatten, dass nach einem Berg auch wieder ein Tal kommt und Trends nicht ewig dauern. Umso bewundernswerter sind diejenigen, die alle Höhen und Tiefen durchgestanden haben und auch heute noch von Wasser und Brot leben, damit Ihr coole und aufregende Musik auf den Plattenteller bekommt. Unterstützt diese Leute, damit sie das auch weiterhin tun können, und selbst wenn WOM und Saturn jetzt ein paar Punk-CDs im Regal haben - laßt sie stehen und kauft unabhängig, denn nur so können die kleinen Vertriebe überleben.

Plattensammler sind inzwischen eine feste Größe in der Hardcore-Szene, und das Sammeln wird zunehmend von einem Hobby zu einem ökonomischen Prozeß. Langsam begreift auch der amerikanische Mainstream, dass US-Punk und Hardcore ein Teil der amerikanischen Geschichte ist - bisher kaum beachtet, aber immens wichtig in seinem Einfluß auf die kulturelle Entwicklung der 80er Jahre. Die Misfits werden von skurrilen B-Film-Punks zur Ikone, Raymond Pettibone vom schrägen Hardcore-Zeichner zum vielbeachteten Künstler stilisiert.

Mit diesem Verstehen (und auch mit der “Mainstreamisierung” von Punk) steigt die Nachfrage nach den Originalen. Die 1000-Dollar-Grenze für rare Singles ist längst überschritten, nach oben scheint es keine Grenzen zu geben - was ist ein angemessener Preis für eine wichtige und gute Platte, von der nur magere 100 Stück existieren? Felix Havoc schoß in der Aprilausgabe des Maximum RocknRoll den Vogel ab, als er ankündigte, künftig als “Fonds-Manager” seltene Platten für Investoren zu sammeln und zu horten. Das war selbstverständlich ein Aprilscherz, aber die Heftigkeit der Reaktionen auf diese Ankündigung zeigt, dass wir von dieser Realität nicht mehr weit entfernt sind. Erfreulicherweise gibt es aber auch positive Auswüchse dieser Entwicklung. Noch niemals zuvor gab es dermaßen viele Wiederveröffentlichungen alter Klassiker; Bands wühlen in ihren Archiven, und selbst der letzte Studioschnipsel wird auf CD gebannt. Viele Reissues sind leider illegal, umso mehr sollte man also allen danken, die sich die Mühe machen, das alles legal unter Beteiligung der Bands durchzuziehen.

Musikalisch fand ich die vergangenen drei Jahre außerordentlich ertragreich. Neben vielen Neo-, Retro- und Old-School-Moden gibt es nun eine ganze Reihe von Bands, die wirklich neue und originelle Musik machen - es versteht sich von selbst, dass einige Platten dieser Richtung ziemlich schwerverdaulich sind, von wegen “Hey Ho, Let's Go”. Ein paar Tips in dieser Richtung stehen auf der “Best Of”-Seite. Die Sachen sind in Deutschland nicht leicht zu bekommen, daher hier ausnahmsweise etwas Schleichwerbung: Insolito, X-Mist und Green Hell sind hierfür wohl die beste Quelle.

Ansonsten ist alles beim Alten - meine Antwortzeiten für emails und Briefe werden immer länger, man hat halt immer weniger Zeit. Ich werde aber in jedem Fall versuchen, das FLEX weiter am Leben erhalten, bis auf weiteres allerdings vorwiegend auf der Website; keine Ahnung, ob ich mir den Stress einer gedruckten Ausgabe noch einmal mache.

Mitstreiter, die Reviews und/oder Coverscans schicken, suche ich also weiterhin dringend, bitte meldet Euch einfach bei mir, wenn Ihr Lust und Zeit dazu habt.

Falls Ihr Reviews für dieses oder das letzte Buch geschickt habt und ich Euch nicht schon im Vorfeld angesprochen habe, meldet Euch bitte bei mir. Ich konnte leider nicht mehr alle email-Adressen rechtzeitig ausfindig machen.

Bis bald & Alles Beste

 
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