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SONIC RUIN MAGAZINE

It's fucking Rock and Roll!

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ISSUE 3 OF SONIC RUIN IS NOW AVAILABLE!!!
ISSUE 2 IS SOLD OUT!!!
My name is Carl I. and this here is SONIC RUIN:
ISSUE 3 IS A "ONE BAND FEATURE ISSUE" CENTERING ON TRASHCAN DARLINGS. LEARN ABOUT THE WRITING, RECORDING, AND TOURING OF THEIR LAST FULL LENGTH ALBUM "GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER"! ALSO INCLUDED ARE THE STANDARD CD REVIEWS. FANS OF STIV BATOR(S) MIGHT ALSO FIND AN INTERESTING ARTICLE IN THERE ILLUSTRATING MY ENCOUNTER WITH THE MAN...ON STAGE!
ISSUE 1 AND 2 WILL BE POSTED AT WWW.SONICRUIN.COM IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS!!!

PRICE IS:
$3.00 USA AND CANADA
$4.00 EVERYWHERE ELSE
*******ISSUE 1 AND 2 HAVE SOLD OUT!!!
Sonic Ruin is all about Glam/Rockabilly/Blues/Punk/Sleaze and basically straight up, good ol' Rock and Roll. The 'zine is a fairly text heavy creature with fairly in-depth reviews and interviews.
The future intent of the magazine will be to just continue to exist and do what I can for this music style we all love.
Bands, if you want your CD reviewed or wish to be in the 'zine, drop me a line or ship your CD to the address below. One major request, please make sure your band fits with what Sonic is about. No Nu Metal, no Rap, no Hip Hop, no Death Metal, etc. All of these might be fine styles of music, but I know very little about them and your band will NOT be represented as well as it could be, and your money will be wasted sending it my way:
Labels, if you want your bands reviewed, send along a CD to the address below. Labels, also follow the advice to the bands up above:
Sonic Ruin
P.O. Box 752
Harvard IL. 60033
USA

PAYPAL ORDERS: [email protected]


By the way, if you send something in and it does not get reviewed right away, or as soon as I said it will, I apologize. Try and keep in mind this is a "hobby" for me and something I do on the side, all by myself (aside from the wonderful covers by Mark Bell and his Swordfish Graphics). I might misplace somethings, or they might slip my mind. I have no problems with friendly reminders, but sometimes things fall apart. Issue 4 is proving to be one of those things. I am doing my best and my plans are NOT to fuck anybody over. If you feel you have been fucked over, it was a mistake and I will do what I can to rectify it with you.

My Interests

Glam, Rockabilly, 70's & 80's Punk, Delta Blues, Classic Horror films (with a dash of modern), Godzilla, some Science Fiction, Vintage and archtop guitars, Old Time Radio (OTR), 2005 WORLD CHAMPION Chicago White Sox, model building, sculpting, Horror novels, The Marx Bros., Buster Keaton, Silent Films...

Music:

Faces, Small Faces, The Damned, The Replacements, Marillion, Hanoi Rocks, The Lords Of The New Church, T-Rex, Dogs D'Amour, Dave Kusworth (and all of his projects), Chaz Matthews (solo and Dimestore Haloes), Tigertailz, Johnny Thunders, The Trash Brats, Supagroup, Star Star, The Wildhearts (first wave), Ziggy, Genesis (Gabriel & Hackett days), Humble Pie, Charged GBH, Verbal Assault, Suzi Quatro, Kevin K., Mississippi Fred McDowell, Blind Willie McTell, Heart Throb Mob, The Royal Court Of China, The Flower Leperds, and most recently Urgencies...I could keep going on and on forever...

Movies:

Dawn Of The Dead (original), Creature From The Black Lagoon, The Old Dark House, The Haunting, Night Of The Demon, King Kong (original), everything Godzilla, Nosferatu (both the original silent and the '79 remake), Frankenstein, Jaws, all 5 of the 4 Marx Bros. films, anything Buster Keaton, anything Lillian Gish...

Television:

Chicago White Sox baseball...and that is about it.

Books:

Anything by Joe R. Lansdale, Carrion Comfort and Summer of Night by Dan Simmons, HP Lovecraft, and a bunch more...

Heroes:

Brian Setzer, Eddie Cochran, Andy McCoy, Brian Baker, Fish, Ronnie Lane, Joe R. Lansdale

My Blog

KID EGO - Holy SHIT!!!

So I was showing one of my new bosses some stuff today. Turns out he's an old Hairband / Glam fan from back in the day. He had no idea what I did in my spare time, so I laughed and told him I had some...
Posted by SONIC RUIN MAGAZINE on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:40:00 PST

RIP Traci Michaelz

Word is coming in through all of the different Glam sites, My Space pages, and all around, that Traci Michaelz has passed away. Traci, as many of you might know, is a bit of an underground legend for ...
Posted by SONIC RUIN MAGAZINE on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:03:00 PST

RIP Traci Michaelz

Word is coming in through all of the different Glam sites, My Space pages, and all around, that Traci Michaelz has passed away. Traci, as many of you might know, is a bit of an underground legend for ...
Posted by SONIC RUIN MAGAZINE on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:04:00 PST

So...where the fuck have I been???

Some of you might have noticed a severe lack of updates from myself. Well, if you know me personally you may have noticed a few things also. Nah, I ain't looking for anything other than letting some o...
Posted by SONIC RUIN MAGAZINE on Wed, 14 May 2008 07:24:00 PST

The Sonic Ruin website has been updated!

Just a heads-up to you kids that might be interested, the Sonic Ruin website has been updated with a new news item tidbit and some new reviews! www.sonicruin.com Rock on kids! Carl...
Posted by SONIC RUIN MAGAZINE on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:00:00 PST

SONIC RUIN NOW HAS A WEBSITE!!!

WWW.SONICRUIN.COM So here is the explanation as I have it on the news page: ..> February 7, 2007 Welcome to a new chapter for Sonic Ruin, the ever evolving magazine!First let me explain what is g...
Posted by SONIC RUIN MAGAZINE on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:30:00 PST

O.K., time to get my ass in gear.

O.K., so the holidays are over (long over...I guess...yeah?) and it's probably high time I get rolling again. Right? Welp, once again things are going to change a bit for Sonic. I'm finding that the s...
Posted by SONIC RUIN MAGAZINE on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:58:00 PST

SONIC RUIN 3 OFFICIALLY FOR SALE!

O.K., so I am back from vacation now. While gone I got my shipment of 'zines, so now I am fully stocked and able to sell! Information on how to get them is on the front page, or I will help you lazy n...
Posted by SONIC RUIN MAGAZINE on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:57:00 PST

Gone for a week.

Okey Dokey, I leave tonight for Disney World for a week. So, if you drop me any lines or send me stuff or order the 'zine and you don't hear from me before Dec. 1st, that is why. I know there are some...
Posted by SONIC RUIN MAGAZINE on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:30:00 PST

Trashcan is in Sonic Ruin, Sonic Ruin is not in the trashcan.

O.K., small favor to ask of you folks out there. This is a favor that really only goes to those of you who buy the 'zine (which would be really cool if it was all of my "friends"...but it's actually n...
Posted by SONIC RUIN MAGAZINE on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:12:00 PST