Greetings... my name's Al and this is the story of my zine...
It all started in 1982. I was writing for a local zine called Concentration X and they mangled my writing. So I thought, OK, let me try something on my own. Over the course of a few nights in the late summer, I typed up four pages of live and record reviews, slapped the name Suburban Punk across the top page and gave the pages to my dad to run off at work on the xerox machine. He made me 50 copies and I took 'em a to a few shows and sold 'em for a quarter apiece. The start of a publishing empire? I don't know but, since that time, I've published another 45 issues (Issue 33-34 was one issue).
After 10 issues, the name of the zine was changed to Suburban Voice. The print version of SV has been dormant in recent years but I'm planning to get things going again. The last issue was published in July of '03 but that WON'T be the last print issue. I would also like to eventually have a Suburban Voice site. It seems as though things are always in the planning stages and I plod along at a snail's pace but I'm trying!
In the meantime, you can read my Suburban Voice blog which I try to update fairly frequently. I'm also a columnist for Maximum Rock 'n Roll , AMP Magazine and Mass Movement . I also blog regularly on my personal page here.
If you've never seen the 'zine, I write about punk, hardcore and garage from all eras... occasionally some metal or classic rock... not so much emo, nu-metal, screamo, etc...
My main project in recent years has been my radio show Sonic Overload, which can heard on the web at this link . The show is updated every Monday.
Records/CD's/demos etc. are always welcome for review... I don't review MP3s nor advance-type packages--what I mean is send the actual release with artwork/inserts, etc...
Mailing address: Suburban Voice, PO Box 2746, Lynn, MA 01903
Thanks to everyone for the support over the years...