From: http://www.swanfungus.com/page/2

Back in the early ’80s there was a local ‘zine out of Chicago called Matter. These days, it’s mostly known as the rag that featured Steve Albini as a contributor. Seeing as how I was a wee, wee lad (as in, less than a year old) during this era, it would have been hard for me to know anything about the ‘zine. Alas, leave it to fellow blogger (and great friend to Swan Fungus) Old Man Neill to help us all in our quest to uncover what exactly was printed in that ‘zine.

A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from Mr. Neill asking me if I wanted a couple of old issues of Matter, and lo-and-behold they showed up at my doorstep just a couple days later! Both issues were in good condition — not bad considering their age. While I was home last week, I scanned the majority of the issues, and I’ll be hosting them forever (or until I’m asked to remove them) so that you can read the articles and interviews and columns and record reviews for yourself.


In this issue, Albini penned an article called “Husker Du? Only Their Hairdresser Knows For Sure”, Jim Cross submitted an almost interview with New Order, Albini interviewed UB40, someone wrote an article called “Johnny Thunders: Not Dead Yet”, and many new (circa 9/83) records were reviewed. Lastly, there’s a good installment of Albini’s “Tired Of Ugly Fat” column.
Please enjoy. And if you have any old copies of Matter collecting dust in your apartment, send ‘em on over and I’ll share them with the people.

 

 

 

 

 

etc. all the other pages are found on the blog itself.

[tesla69]

SY did an interview printed in the Aug/Sep 85 issue.

[the ikara cult]

super lovely

[Dead-Air]

Cool stuff. That Husker Du article was really interesting to read, because I've read dozens of articles since it came out that I'm pretty sure were ripping it off as source material.

[█████████]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to sarramkrop again.

[narlus]

excellent.

i have a copy or two in my attic; i occasionally scan ebay looking for others, but haven't found any.

i think there should be a fanzine library, filled w/ PDF scans from essential and out of print zines. i've often toyed w/ doing some myself.


does anyone have any copies of Away From The Pulsebeat? i only located 1 or 2 copies and the writing was excellent.

[Rob Instigator]

fucking awesome.