New for Fall

NEW ZINES

Basic Paper Airplane #12: The Interview Issue- This issue of the long-running Basic Paper Airplane zine series focuses on interviews—what it means to create that space and all the ways they can succeed or fail. Ten interviews with writers, artists, and musicians that delve into the creative process, identity, family, image, myth, and obsession. ($3)

Caboose #10: The Searching Issue- In Caboose #10, zine luminary Liz Mason explores the world of transcendental meditation. The zine is an adventure through her discovery process, taking her into nondescript offices and tiny rooms full of fruit and hankies. ($4)

Cometbus #55: Pen Pals- Cometbus #55 could be looked at two ways: A treatise on growing up without giving up, or proof that even the most dedicated proponent of youth culture grows old. Either way, it’s fascinating. It’s coming from a life in punk, leftist politics, and DIY culture, but you don’t need to be interested in any of that to be interested in the stories he tells. ($3)

Cometbus #56: A Bestiary of Booksellers- With the hyperbolic zeal and rancor of a true bookseller, Aaron Cometbus brings to life his chosen family: the booksellers of New York City. A Bestiary of Booksellers is for anyone who has sold books long enough to have it seep into their identity, but it’s also for all manner of book addicts, subculture scholars, obsessives, and night owls. ($5)

Cometbus #57: Cartoonists- Made for both comic diehards and those generally wary of comics, the zine is a dive into New York comic culture—from those in the spotlight to those lighting the world behind the scenes. Interviews with Gabrielle Bell, Jeffrey Lewis, Julia Wertz, Adrian Tomine, Mad Magazine legend Al Jaffee, and many more. ($5)

Cometbus #58: Zimmerwald- Addicting and perfectly bizarre, Cometbus #58 is a story about finding home in a greasy-spoon diner full of combative old-timers. It's a ride full of strangeness and surprises. ($3)

Listen Up! #2- The second issue of Katie Ash's podcast review and recommendation zine, Listen Up!, is a treat. As always, Katie's passion for these shows leaps off the page and her cut-and-paste layout makes it a joy to read. ($4)

Minor Leagues #6- Minor Leagues #6 begins the first part of a serialized book-length, comics + prose project about place, history, death, memory, childhood, and nature. An ambitious and heart-felt large-format zine from UK comic artist Simon Moreton. ($6)

Minimum Rock + Roll #13- Another burst of Minimum Rock + Roll. An interview with Notches and a bunch of reviews, all in a nice, compact size. ($1) 

Radical Domesticity #5: Food and Friends- Radical Domesticity always has the best, most practical advice. Within: how to be a good host, how to wash your clothes so they last and last, how to remove even the toughest stains, how to store food, making a storage system out of milk crates, and much more. And her advice on how to be a better guest? Crucial! At any age. ($3)

Radical Domesticity #6: Adulting- In Radical Domesticity #6, Emma Karin Eriksson, the domestic advice guru of the zine counterculture, delves into the in-and-outs of full-blown adulting. ($3)

NEW CALENDAR

Crawdad Cleveland's 2019 Famous Faces Calendar- The Famous Faces calendar is an annual favorite around here. Paintings of legends from across the musical map: soul to country, garage rock to jazz, surf to folk revival, and beyond. Painted by Shana "Crawdad" Cleveland, from La Luz and Shana Cleveland & The Sandcastles. ($8) 

NEW BOOKS

What About the Rest of Your Life- Sung Yim's debut is a book about gender identity and body image, sexuality and addiction, and so much more. It's a memoir that plays with form, takes risks, and never lets up. ($10)

NEW MUSIC

The High Beams- Daydream- A reissue of this lost, barely-released 1997 album by The High Beams. Daydream is underwater lo-fi dream pop for guitar and drum machine. (cassette) ($5)

Midwife- Prayer Hands- Following their acclaimed 2017 debut Like Author, Like Daughter, slowcore shoegazers Midwife new Prayer Hands EP delves further, bringing more reverb-drenched anthems of loss. (cassette + digital download) ($5)

The Washboard Abs- Lowlight Visions- "Lowlight Visions might just be the most impressive album The Washboard Abs have made...it’s a brave artist who takes the very personal worry and suffering and uses it to build something that’s this complex and multifaceted, vulnerable but not hopeless, forgoing nihilistic dejection in favour of a strange kind of love, an appreciation of what stands to be lost." - Various Small Flames (cassette + digital download) ($5)

BACK IN STOCK

While we're always restocking (basically daily) and our stock is fluctuating all the time, these past couple months we restocked a few that we'd been out of for a long while and weren't sure we'd get back in. These are just a few that we're so pleased to have back in our catalog.

8-Track Mind #101- This legendary '90s zine returns after a ten-year hiatus. Editor Russ Forster asks 14 people who have been creating for long enough to be considered legends (from filmmakers to authors, magazine publishers to members of punk bands) the simple question “zines vs. blogs?” and gets an amazingly wide range of thoughts on everything from the collectors’ market to 8-track Boy Scout merit badges. ($3)

8-Track Mind #102- 8TM never fails to disappoint and has the ability to make you think about something as seemingly simple as music formats as something expansive, something that carries over into other aspects of life. ($3)

Caboose #9: How to Start a Secret Society- Highly informative and incredibly cheeky histories of the Masons, the Illuminati, and more. ($3)

I Still Believe Anita Hill Postcard- A letterpressed postcard from Hope Amico standing with attorney Anita Hill, who in 1991 stood up against sexual harassment and unjustly faced a culture that refused to believe her. ($3)

Paper Crush #7: Dumping Kerouac and Other Beats- Krissy Ponyboy chronicles her decades-long obsession with Beat Generation writers, and the obsession's gradual decline. ($2)

Three Steps Notepad- Three steps: Agitate, educate, organize. By Justseeds Arts Collective artist Josh MacPhee. ($4)

NEWS

*We'll be at the ever-awesome Olympia Zine Fest the weekend of October 12th-14th. 

*A lot of Antiquated Future friends have been producing at-home podcasts of late. Craven Rock (of Eaves of Ass zine) and Kieran Harrison-Buhlinger (of Blindfolder and Corespondents) are hosting the political podcast Two Paychecks. Our buddy James Sneed hosts People are the Worst. And Danny Noonan (of Clock Tower Nine zine) co-hosts the Accidents on Purpose podcast. 

*The great Judith Arcana (a former member of the Jane underground abortion service and maker of excellent chapbooks) is fundraising to reprint her biography of Grace Paley, a long out of print delve into the cultish short story writer and political activist.

*The new issue of Basic Paper Airplane was recently reviewed on Syndicated Zine Reviews. 

*On the tape label side of things, we just reprinted tapes by electro-folk-pop project Pleasure Systems and ambient soundscape wizard Indira Valey.

*Sage of the long-running Sweet Candy Distro sadly just lost her partner, and her friends are fundraising to help her and her kids through this time. By contributing to her GoFundMe, you'll be supporting a great human and vital member of the zine community.