I found this online archive of old issues of Maximum Rock n Roll and Flipside all in PDF format. Now I know what I’ll be reading for awhile. You know, I was checking out issue #1 of Flipside and reading their reviews of the brand new Clash self-titled LP and the Jam’s In the City and it’s amazing punk ever went anywhere. They’re barely literate! Still it’s pretty amazing that anyone could get a zine going and distributed to anyone in 1977. It’s not like today where we can all play rock journalist on the internet. These guys had to do the interviews, write the reviews and articles, type it up, photocopy it and then get it out to people somehow. They must have survived on sheer DIY determination (or maybe just boredom). I guess that’s why punk stuck around after all.
