Flipside’s back!
Read it here!
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 …

It seems like a lifetime ago now but I once saw Public Image Ltd. play a show at the old Exhibition Stadium in Toronto.  It was in the summer of 1989 and they were the middle band between The Sugarcubes and New Order, who were headlining. That was normally not something I would have been interested in except I liked PiL somewhat and, as I put it at the time, I wanted to see Johnny Rotten before he died.
Who could have predicted that less than a decade later he would …

It was reminded to me the other day that on April 5 it was 15 years since Kurt Cobain died. That seriously seems like a long time, long enough to re-assess what his legacy and that of Nirvana was and means.
I’ve written about Cobain`s death before, I just don’t remember who for, but if I find the link I’ll update this post because I have no interest in rehashing any of that same ground.
I was just starting out in music journalism then and it was one of the biggest stories …