Goteblüd San Francisco will be open this coming Saturday from 12-5pm, but closed Sunday.

Goteblüd Los Angeles will be appearing at the Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair this Friday through Sunday, 1/29-1/31 from 12-7pm each day.

The "You Are Her" zine show makes a special appearance at the LA fair, so if you missed your chance to see it in SF, come check it out!

Goteblüd will be CLOSED this weekend due to building maintenance.

Stay tuned for exciting news next week!

The current show "You Are Her: Riot Grrrl and Underground Female Zines of the 1990s" closes this weekend.

The hours are Sat/Sun 12-5pm. The show will come down after closing on Sunday.

If you were waiting for some excuse to come see it before it ended, now's your chance!

And you are there, sort of!

Apologies for video quality and the fact that we had to chop these up into sub-ten-minute pieces. YouTube sux.

Enjoy!

( Five videos under the cut )

Just a reminder that the panel discussion for the show is this coming Saturday, 12/12 @ 7pm. Our featured speakers will talk about making zines and art:

• Iraya Robles ("Marks in Time", Sta-Prest)
  
• Bianca Ortiz ("Mestiza", "Mamasita")
  
• Layla Gibbon ("Drop Babies", "Chimps", Skinned Teen, editor of "MRR")

The event is FREE and the store and show will be open late. Stop on by!

We've also added many more zines to the show, so here's an updated list.

( Over 600 zine titles in the show! )

From the gallery/store/cat emporium formerly known as Goteblüd:

"You Are Her: Riot Grrrl and Underground Female Zines of the 1990s" panel discussion on Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 7pm.

Featured speakers:

• Iraya Robles ("Marks in Time", Sta-Prest)
  
• Bianca Ortiz ("Mestiza", "Mamasita")
  
• Layla Gibbon ("Drop Babies", "Chimps", Skinned Teen, editor of "MRR")

Each speaker will talk about their experiences making zines, music and art, followed by a question and answer session.

This event is free and open to the general public. The Goteblüd Grrrlblüd store will be open that day from noon to close of event.

Please forward this event announcement and come by when we're open to see and experience the show.


Photo courtesy of DocPop.

You Are Her
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. )

We've been asked to curate some classic old zines to go along with an upcoming show at the Berkeley Art Museum called Zine Mart. Many new zine makers will be on hand selling their stuff, while some choice Bay Area zine history will be on display.

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!

The big news here at Goteblüd is the imminent release of our in-house comic, Wuvable Oaf - issue #2!

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!

Like I said, NYC was totally crazy. Being at the NY Art Book Fair was a blast. The event itself is simply epic.

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. )

New York is fucking crazy.

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 think Goteblüd will be the first vendor at the MRR/Gilman St. record swap to deal strictly in zines.

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.

I know that this journal has been quiet with regards to Goteblüd, but rest assured it's anything but quiet here.

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.

... zines? Because we just got a lot of 'em.

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!

Attention Gay Area peeps!

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.

We would really appreciate it if people would forward this site to anyone interested:

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 don't carry new zines here at Goteblüd, but we still meet lots of contemporary zine makers.

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!

Businesses are supposed to sell more than they buy, but this past week has been an exception.

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!