An issue of Flipside from 1989
Flipside’s back!
Hudley from the original Flipside has resurrected the seminal punk rock zine that published from 1977 until 2001 or so. She has certainly captured the spirit of the old zine and engaged many of the old writers. (I suspect thought that this is likely a bunch of friends having a few beers and deciding to get something going again. You know, like a zine.)
It does seem a bit weird to see a Flipside without Al Flipside but it’s also nice to see that it’s still a zine that shows its writers getting hammered before gigs, although wow some staffers have aged, um, interestingly.
If they manage to keep this going I would love to see some of the old columns come back, and try and get Shane of the infamous Shaneshit column he wrote from jail after multiple convictions of armed robbery.
It might seem quaint now but in the days before Suicide Girls and emo-porn, Flipside was the place for pictures of naked punk chicks. There was another zine that did as well, but it was all it focused on and wasn’t as fun.
Anyway, welcome back!
Don’t be a witness.