I’m excited to announce that I’m putting out a zine! It’s called The World’s First Perfect Zine and I mentioned starting to work on it on this blog about a year ago but it took more than ten times as long to finish as I thought it would. It comes out November 16th, costs $12, and was printed in a run of 500 copies. The contributors are as follows:
Dylan Baldi is the sole songwriter and recording member in the band Cloud Nothings.
Rostam Batmanglij is a musician and songwriter in the bands Vampire Weekend and Discovery.
Pete Berkman is the lead songwriter in the band Anamanaguchi.
Joe Coscarelli is an assistant editor at New York Magazine’s Daily Intel blog.
Lena Dunham is a filmmaker.
jj is a Swedish pop group.
Tao Lin is a novelist.
Ryan O’Connell is an editor at Thought Catalog.
Maureen O’Connor is a staff writer at Gawker.
Choire Sicha is the editor of The Awl.
Himanshu Suri is a rapper in the band Das Racist.
Bucky Turco is the editor of Animal New York.
Victor Vazquez is a rapper in the band Das Racist.
Mike Vilensky is a staff writer at The Wall Street Journal.
Jenna Wortham is a staff writer at The New York Times.
You can order it online here or via the BUY button on the sidebar of this blog. You can also get it at Strand Bookstore, McNally Jackson Books, or Other Music if you live in New York, starting November 16th, but those places will have only a handful of copies each, so if you wanna definitely get a copy, order it online.
Tumblr is throwing a release party for the zine, with an open bar (god bless them), on November 16th from 7:00 to 9:00 at Other Music in Manhattan. You’re invited to the party! Yes, you. Tell Siri to put it in your calendar. Come lower your inhibitions, schmooze with some contributors, buy a zine, and then walk to the subway and put on your headphones and read it on your way home.
The zine will also have a small, private, password-protected Tumblr of supplemental content (photos, interviews, stories), coming next week, that you can get the password to by ordering the zine online (I’ll email it to you) or finding the answer to this riddle, which is the password:
What is the name of the girlfriend of the director in the only 9-minute official music video (presently unavailable in the United States due to copyright issues) by the band whose original guitarist’s older brother was previously in a band whose two other members went on to form a band whose most recent album’s first single prominently features a sample from a song by a now-defunct band whose percussionist is named John Braddock, nicknamed “Dutch”?
Okay, that’s it, see you later! Hopefully at the party too.
Unlike maybe some people (because it’s always about other people, right?) I am not too cool for school or PRR. And this is the first ‘zine I’ve ever bought.
