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Alt Press Fest returns for its 18th year
Zines and music go together like the chords A, E and G.
Alt Press Fest 2025 Jeri Gravlin In January of 1977, the English zine Sideburns famously published diagrams of how to finger an A, E, and G on a guitar fretboard. “This is a chord, this is another, this is a third,” it explained at the time. “Now form a band.”
Music is still feeling the aftershocks of that sloppy little cartoon, and zines still influence music scenes everywhere, despite (or in spite of?) the Internet.
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