Riot Grrrl and Underground Female Zines of the 1990s
Opening Friday, November 20th 2009, from 7-9pm
766 Valencia between 18th/19th, San Francisco
Goteblüd salutes an incredible period of self-publishing. On display are nearly 700 creative and inspiring publications that shook the world, including Riot Grrrl zines, Riot Boy zines, Not Riot Grrrl zines and mainstream magazines. Also available is a listening station devoted to cassettes.
The entire contents of "You Are Her" are available for reading and listening. This show is interactive!
A photocopier is onsite.
The show is open during store hours - Saturdays and Sundays (only) from 12-5pm, 11/21/09 through mid-January 2010.
( Publications included in the show. )
Click the image for more information:
Also, this is an official pre-announcement...
Coming soon to Goteblüd:
YOU ARE HER
Riot Grrrl and Underground Female Zines of the 1990s
This show will open Friday, 11/20/09 from 7-9pm and continue during normal business hours Sat/Sun 12-5pm through mid-January.
Many seminal zines of the era will be on display and available for reading. A listening area with a tape deck - featuring many important cassettes of the time - will be accessible as well. There will be a photocopier on-site for public use.
Look for an official announcement next week!
Those of you in the Bay Area can pick up a copy this coming weekend at APE, which takes place at the Concourse, 7th and Brannan, south of Market.
The store will be open normal hours this weekend - Sat/Sun 12-5 - and we'll be doing double duty to run both the store and our booth @ APE. But keep in mind that APE is the ONLY place to get the new issue of our comic right now.
See you there!
For me, there is a satisfaction in positing this stuff within the larger print world, the art world and the world of antiquarian books. Old zines comfortably surf the fringes of all of the above, and I got so much wonderful support from visitors to my table.
"I can't believe I went to the NY Art Book Fair and found Truly Needy! And Smegma Journal!!"
"Do you have any Riot Grrrl zines?"
"Yes, but they're mostly back at my shop in San Francisco."
"You have a shop?!?"
I mean, why not?
And I didn't see any other comic books represented at the fair, so it was satisfying to have ours available as well.
Lots of LJ peeps in attendance. I'm not gonna do the LJ-username thing. I'm just going to give you ( three lousy pics taken on a phone. )
Zine crazy, that is.
That's all I can say as I sit here at PS1 and take in all of the energy and excitement. I'm just a small-town guy from San Francisco, or at least that's how I feel. This event truly humbles me.
And today's piece in the NY Times is just icing on the cake.
Wooooo!!!
The Goteblüd store in San Francisco will be CLOSED this coming weekend, Sat/Sun 10/3 and 10/4.
Instead, Goteblüd will be exhibiting at the NY Art Book Fair at PS1 from Friday 10/2/09 through Sunday 10/4/09. We'll have LOTS of vintage zines, Oaf comics and srsly hilarious things for sale alongside over 200 other exhibitors.
New York peeps, now's your chance to shop at Goteblüd, crammed on to a six foot table in a museum near you.
I went to this event two years ago and handed out fliers looking for zines. Now I'm bringing them!
Of interest to anyone who reads this and plans to go - I'm bringing several boxes of 80s/90s punk/hardcore zines that are priced at $1 each. I plan to blow out as many as I can for a buck and hope to bring none of them home with me. Gotta make room in the shop! It's getting crowded in there.
I'll also have my binders full of rare/pricey stuff with me. And what the hell, I'll bring some records and skateboard decks for the kids.
Please note that the Goteblüd store will be closed on Sunday, 9/20/09 for this event. We'll still be open this Saturday, however, and normal weekend hours thereafter.
We've been buying zines in a big way. In fact, there's no way we can display all of the things we buy, so we're going to have to reorganize the display in the store to give priority to the things people want the most.
More announcements shortly, but in the works:
- We'll be at the 924 Gilman St. record swap in Berkeley on Sunday, September 20th. The store will likely be closed that day.
- We'll also be at the New York Art Book Fair from October 2nd-4th.
- We have big plans for APE this coming October 17th/18th.
Watch this space for updates.
We have early- to mid-90s European techno/hardcore/gabber/rave zines like Hakke, Groove, Underground Techno Resistance and a DHR mini zine! Also, several issues of 90s US hardcore techno zine The Skreem.
This now necessitates a dedicated section for "electronic music."
Open Sat/Sun 12-5, look for the sign!
The current show "Yes I Am, But Who Am I Really?" is presented in honor of Homo A Go Go, a lesbigay kind of music/art/culture festival taking place right now in San Francisco!
If you are in town for the festival, please stop by this weekend.
Our show will be closing on Saturday, August 22nd. That's it. So if you or your friends were thinking about checking it out, you have just over a week to do so.
http://ibuyzines.com/
It is ours. We are always looking to buy zines and zine collections. Tell your friends!
Lots of people have boxes of zines sitting in garages, basements, parents' houses and lots of people need money.
We want to give you money for your zines. The more zines, the better. Get in touch!
We're particularly impressed with a new one - "Passions in the Sand: a Terrorist Romance Novel" by Arien Valizadeh. He was gracious enough to give us a copy and it sure is impressive.
I (Matt) particularly love his use of dot patterns to create women's robes. It's like an Islamic Roy Lichtenstein!
Highly recommended that you get your own copy today from their web site. Don't delay!
We bought a TON of old zines.
Because of this, I have to say - as modestly as possible - that we have the best selection of vintage punk and hardcore zines for sale anywhere in the whole wide world. I dare you to find someone else selling anything close to what we have in stock right now.
Some things in this genre that we carry:
Forced Exposure - ALL
Your Flesh - almost all
Touch and Go - many
WDC Period - almost all
Smegma Journal - OK, just one
Slash - ALL
Damage - almost all
No Magazine - almost all
early Flipside
early MRR - #0-#50 and up
Ink Disease
Leading Edge
Sniffin Glue - issues 5 through 12
Ripped & Torn
Creep - nearly all
Ripper - nearly all
We also have slews of zines that are lesser known but just as desireable... particulary '77 UK punk, early 80s DC hardcore, original LA punk and SF Bay Area rarities.
As always, feel free to visit and perouse all of the above. Requests welcomed!
This is our current show, "Yes I Am, But Who Am I Really?"
It will be up through mid-August, in cooperation with the Homo A Go Go music festival.
I (Matt) have been out sick the past two weekends, but am back and raring to go.
We are always looking for old zines and zine collections. Our customers demand them! In particular, the following titles have been requested recently:
- Mercury Rising (and all other bike messenger zines)
- Zendik Farm
- Fag School
- Riot Grrrl (the early 90s DC one)
We pay CA$H.
Stop by, we have a zine for you.
That's 766 Valencia between 18th/19th in the Mission District. We have a brand new sidewalk sign outside during business hours!
Once inside the lobby, look for the intercom you will need to operate in order to get buzzed into our space.
Also, check out our feature in this week's SF Bay Guardian. Woo woo!! Your favorite secret vintage zine store is no longer a secret.
Also look for our ad in the latest Hamburger Eyes photo zine.
I think that about does it for our big media push. We have plenty to do as it is.
No we're not on Facebook.
Hope to see you this weekend! Come spend the 4th reading old zines with us.
Queercore zines and ephemera from the late 80s through 90s
Opening Saturday 6/27/09, 6-8pm
Photo: P Paula P
Queercore - a music movement of underground LGBT artists - was conceptually birthed in Bruce La Bruce and GB Jones' late 80s Toronto zine, JDs. In the years following, hundreds of like-minded publications exploded onto the scene, creating a global network of formerly isolated but newly united radicals. Founded on a punk rock platform, it wasn't long until zines became records, and a new generation of bands came to define the aesthetics and politics of the movement... a "musical fanzine."
Goteblüd co-founder and curator Matt Wobensmith was there with his own zine and record label "Outpunk", documenting and supporting the nascent movement.
"The zines in this collection are 'queer zines' by definition, but many of them are unique in that music and music culture is a common thread. People forget that prior to the internet, obtaining information on 'alternative' topics was difficult. The record store was where we went to learn and get exposed to new ideas. And we used music and record stores to find our audience - people like ourselves.
Most of the zines were done by young people, and many are in the 'perzine' category, intended for a small group of sympathetic individuals. Alienation is a big theme; many of these zines' creators were just as disappointed by gay culture as the homophobia they encountered. Queercore was about creating a new community, and exchanging survival tips and ideas. And though there was fun and celebration, it still remained quite serious. For many people, these zines were done out of urgency and a dire need to find others, to avoid an impending creative and psychic death."
Also on display - alongside over 200 unique titles - are photos, flyers, posters, correspondence, clothing and skateboards of homopunk heroes.
Goteblüd is a vintage zine store and gallery located at 766 Valencia, between 18th and 19th Streets in San Francisco. The show is open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays, from 12-5pm through late August, 2009.
( Complete list of zines in the show )
Hope everyone has had a great week and is preparing for a relaxing weekend.
New at the store - an assload of vintage punk zines like Puncture, Unsound (#1!), SFTG, Sub9, Urgl-Orp, Catazine, and Black Market.
Also, very early issues of Vox (featuring loads of pics/pieces on Throbbing Gristle) plus Birth of Tragedy and a near-complete run of early 80s comic/humor mag Stop!.
And finally - new 90s riot grrrl and feminist zines including the great Oya!
Look for the signs in the lobby when we are open and come on in!
The landlord is installing a phone intercom security system for all building tenants. So, to visit our space, you'll need to pick up the phone in the lobby and dial our suite number. We'll buzz you in.
Dunno what that number is yet but it'll be easy to find starting this coming Saturday.
Also new at Goteblüd - back issues of Bomb Hip Hop Magazine plus a bunch of old graf zines!
Remember, we buy and sell all the time. If you're looking for that special old zine, just ask!
Look for our small sign in the lobby. Once inside the building, we are the last room on the left. Look for the decapitated arm clutching a Mylar balloon.
Ed will be drawing in person on Saturday and I (Matt) will be there all weekend.
We have lots of new zines for those of you who are paying attention. Some vintage punk/new wave stuff (Killer Children, Forget It, Wet Magazine and Sub Pop issue #2!), vintage skate zines, 90s graf zines and weird early 80s music rags.
Also, I found a bunch of old Cometbus zines recently that I don't know what to price at. If you're interested, ask me in person. On a side note, we sold an old issue of Cometbus recently that had what looked like cat vomit inside it. I meant to clean it, but the buyer didn't care. I guess we could have called it.... VomitBus. Har har.
Always buying zines and zine collections! If you or anyone you know has been hit by the recession, make some money and give your zines a good home at Goteblüd!
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