Flipside (fanzine)
Categories | Fanzine |
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First issue | 1977 |
Final issue | 2002 |
Country | United States |
Based in | Whittier, California |
Language | English |
Flipside, known as Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine, was a
As a U.S. punk rock fanzines, Flipside chronicled the independent and
Publication history
Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine was launched in 1977 in
From 1979 until 1989, the fanzine was co-owned and co-edited by Hudley "Hud" Flipside, a pseudonym of Holly Duval Cornell.[3]
By the magazine's sixth anniversary in the summer of 1983, the press run had grown to 6,500 for America, with an additional printing in Germany for European distribution.[4]
Flipside fanzine put on a Burning Man-style festival in California's Mojave Desert at a location known as Jawbone Canyon for several years during the mid-1990s. It was much smaller and more localized than the actual Burning Man festivals and often featured bands that Flipside released on their own label. Special guests included Fugazi, The Offspring and Hawkwind's Nik Turner.[citation needed]
Flipside published a special 10-year anniversary issue titled "Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine Issue 54," documenting the first ten years of punk rock from 1977 to 1987 with 224 pages of band interviews.[5]
Flipside Records
For several years, the publishers also produced punk rock records under the label name Flipside Records. Inspired by the ability of small local labels such as Dangerhouse Records and Slash Records, Kowalewski and Peter Landswick launched the Flipside label in 1978.[6]
In 1979, Kowalewski recalled his own experiences in an effort to inspire additional
"...So anyway me and Pete were eating a pizza one day and Pete said, 'Ya know, Al, we oughta start a record company. We though about it a while and we decided that if Dangerhouse could put out records and if Chris Ashford could put out records and if Slash could put out records, then we could put out records, too.... In the next four months we (mostly Pete, he's the president of Flipside Records) found out all about putting out a private single. We found out about mastering and labels and pressing and
acetates and waiting and sleeves and waiting and now we know all there is to know.... The moral of this story is 'If we can do it, you can do it.' So everybody release your own singles!"[6]
Bands on the roster included Detox, Doggy Style, Bulimia Banquet, Anti-Scrunti Faction, Babyland, Sluts for Hire, Popdefect, Paper Tulips, and Sandy Duncan's Eye.
Flipside Records released vinyl 12-inch compilations, Vol. 1, 2, and 3. Included on them are a variety of punk bands from GBH to Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers. Each compilation included a bands and lyrics insert similar to an issue of Flipside Fanzine yet designed as a newspaper.
Rodney on the ROQ Volume 1 - 3
Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine worked on the
Flipside Video
Los Angeles Flipside Video was a project created by Al, Gus and Hudley. Gus took some classes at a local Jr. College, Rio Hondo, and thus began our journey of live recordings. Cameras, editing equipment and mail order was all done in house at the Flipside office. Video 1 through 10 included many of the bands interviewed in Flipside Fanzine for example;
Key personnel
The editors and staff writers contributing to Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine were jokingly referred to as the "Staph," particularly during the fanzine's earlier years.
Key contributors included the following:[13]
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Further reading
- Hudley Flipside (September 18, 2018). Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine # 54 Ten Year Anniversary Issue. Independently Published. ISBN 9781691716999.
See also
References
- ^ Carlos "Cake" Nunez (September 18, 2018). "10 OF THE BEST FLIPSIDE FANZINE INTERVIEWS". LA Weekly.
- ^ a b Al Kowalewski (August 1979). "Editorial". Flipside. No. 16. p. 2.
- ^ "Bio/CV". Hudley Flipside. Archived from the original on August 12, 2014.
- ^ "FS 39: Six Years!". Flipside. No. 39. Summer 1983. p. 2.
- ^ Hudley Flipside (February 10, 2018). "Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine Issue 54 10 Year Anniversary issue". UCLA Center for Musical Humanities Curating Resistance.
- ^ a b Al Kowalewski (Spring 1979). "Flipside Records??". Flipside. No. 14. p. 8.
- The Best of Rodney on the ROQ" on Posh Boy Records.
- ^ "Flipside Catalog".
- ^ "Flipside Fanzine Staph: Those who worked on Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine 1979 to 1989". Hudley Flipside. May 11, 2013.
- ^ Sullivan, Kate (November 2001). "KROQ An Oral History". Los Angeles Magazine: 91.
- ISSN 1522-9149.
- ISBN 9781628926071.
- ^ O'Neill, Jeff (February 24, 1978). "Punk rock: the sick shall inherit the earth". El Paisano. 14 (11). Whittier.
- ^ "Interview with Hudley Flipside". Trust Fanzine (in German). 2012. p. [1].
- ^ "Todd Taylor Interview". Space Case Records. November 11, 2012.
- ^ Nunez, Carlos (September 7, 2018). "10 OF THE BEST FLIPSIDE FANZINE INTERVIEWS". LA Weekly.
External links
- "Flipside 30 Year Memorial".
Web index of links relevant to the fanzine
- "Flipside" – via archive.org.