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Drastic Plastic Press

Rock 'n' Roll Rhetoric & Retrofuturism

About Me

Drastic Plastic Press is a unique pop kulture e-zine covering real deal rock 'n' roll and anything else we feel like writing about.
Our current update includes: Jeremy Porter on The TOM WAITS ORPHANS TOUR, An interview with JAMES FEARNLEY of THE POGUES, Rock 'n' Roll in Northern Ireland, The lowdown on BOUTIQUE FUZZ pedals...
PLUS: Loads of RECORD REVIEWS DIG IT!!!
Click here and take a looksee: Drastic Plastic Press
This made my day:
"Congrats on Drastic Plastic Press--the writing is strong and distinctive. Count me as a regular reader." --Nicolas Rombes (author of RAMONES in Continuum's 331/3 series, and the forthcoming NEW PUNK CINEMA)

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My Interests

Peace, rock 'n' roll, atomic era/mid-century design, tree houses, vegan food, transistor radios, vintage furniture, time travel, comix, vinyl toys, roadtrips, DIY culture, B-movies, Z-movies, zines, Daniel Clowes, cheap Japanese vintage guitars, thrift store finds, dead formats (8 tracks, 78s, laser discs), dead cities, human rights, animal rights, righting wrongs, whiskey, Americana, 60s garage punk

I'd like to meet:

Writers! We're always accepting submissions; e-mail your pitch. Please see the zine for guidelines.

Music:

ARTISTS WE'VE COVERED: Tom Waits, The Ramones, Sonic Youth, Contortions, Replacements, Old Time Relijun, Veronica Lipgloss & the Evil Eyes, Rock 'n' Roll Monkey & the Robots, Moondog, Dead Kennedys, Kraftwerk, The Routes, Pleasure Seekers, Rusty Springfield, Black Angels, Deadly Snakes, Dirtbombs, Motorsounds, Clinic, Makers, Kimya Dawson, Beat Happening, Gina Go Faster, Undertones, Sons of the Golden West, SSM, Pogues, Gary Wilson, Willowz, Awesome Color, Be Your Own Pet, The Koala, Lead Belly, Terry Manning, Snooks Eaglin, Radio Zumbido....

Movies:

Planet of the Vampires

Television:

The Twilight Zone

Books:

RECENT READS: "Getting Out: Your Guide to Leaving America" by Mark Ehrman, "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, "Ramones" by Nicolas Rombes, "Lenny Bruce is Dead" by Jonathan Goldstein, "The Twilight Zone Companion" by March Scott Zicree, "Schizo Number Four" by Ivan Brunetti, "The Quitter" by Harvey Pekar

Heroes:

Toby and Finnigan, my pet Shih-Tzus. That's Shiii (as in "shadooby") -Zoo--not "Shit-Zoo," you bloody peasants.

My Blog

A Grungtastic summer!

The Fluid are reforming!http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/49881-c lassic-sub-poppers-the-fluid-plan-reunion-showsThe Vaselines play their first US shows:http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2...
Posted by Drastic Plastic Press on Fri, 23 May 2008 01:33:00 PST

Excreting genius at a snails pace

It seems like small zine editors spend half their time rationalizing their mimimal output. Even great zines like Roctober and Gearhead have spent many trees and barrels of ink explaining publishing de...
Posted by Drastic Plastic Press on Fri, 23 May 2008 01:25:00 PST

Transistor Radio Article for Atomic Ranch

Just a head's up about an article I got published in the fantastic ATOMIC RANCH MAGAZINE. I wrote a piece on collecting transistor radios from the 50s and 60s and DRASTIC PLASTIC PRESS staffer Jackie ...
Posted by Drastic Plastic Press on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:45:00 PST

Some Light on a Spider in the Night: Interview with 70s Psych Rocker Andy Zwerling

Yet another brilliant piece from Bart! Check it out and download free and rare (unreleased on CD) tracks from Andy Zwerling.http://drastic-plastic.com/AndyZwerling.html
Posted by Drastic Plastic Press on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:47:00 PST

Check out Barts interview with Chris Slusarenko of Guided By Voices & Takeovers

Bart's interview with Chris Slusarenko of Guided By Voices and current Robert Pollard project, the Takeovers, is right here: http://drastic-plastic.com/press.html It's a great interview, wel...
Posted by Drastic Plastic Press on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:24:00 PST

Where the hell are Bart and Craig?!

We're still here! The zine is three years old this month and still chuggin' along... Check out Bart's interview with Chris Slusarenko of Guided By Voices and current Robert Pollard project, the T...
Posted by Drastic Plastic Press on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:09:00 PST

Rock 'n Roll Grad School: Rombes's Ramones (Book Review)

RAMONES (331/3 SERIES)BY NICHOLAS ROMBESCONTINUUM Continuum's 331/3 series analyzes individual, canonical rock 'n' roll albums. It is to their credit that Ramones/Ramones  has made it into their ...
Posted by Drastic Plastic Press on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:51:00 PST

Warped, Indeed: Drastic Plastic Visits Mall Punkalooza, 10 Things I Learned at the Warped Tour

10 Things I learned at the Warped Tour (Detroit 2006) In the name of science (and appeasing my Joan Jett worshipping girlfriend) I entered the teen punk Candy Land that is the Vans Warped Tour. T...
Posted by Drastic Plastic Press on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:24:00 PST