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The Fanzine PodcastWe Talk Zines Author: Tony Fletcher
Join Tony Fletcher as he interviews fanzine editors past and present, along with authors, curators and anyone else contributing to the prevalence and preservation of the home-spun DIY press.Tony Fletcher started Jamming! fanzine as a 13-year old schoolboy in 1977, and went on to publish 36 issues and take Jamming! monthly before folding it in 1986. He has since gone on to write many books about music, including biographies of Keith Moon, The Smiths, R.E.M., Wilson Pickett and others, plus a memoir, a novel and a Jamming! compendium: The Best of Jamming!: Selections and Stories from the Fanzine That Grew Up 1977-86 was published by Omnibus Press in 2021 and comes complete with reproduced interviews, articles, photographs and cartoons, fresh recollections from those who were part of the Jamming! story, and a foreword by Billy Bragg. More information and online purchasing options available at:Omnibus PressTonyFletcher.netSigned copies direct from the author, ideal for readers based in the USA, are available from https://tonyfletcherauthor.bandcamp.com/merchSign up for free at tonyfletcher.substack.com for weekly updates on this podcast, other fanzine news, music, reading and writing recommendations, and for a free long-read weekend article by Tony.'The Jamming! Fanzine Podcast Theme' is by Noel Fletcher. Copyright reserved.The Jamming! Fanzine Podcast logo was designed by Greg Morton.The Best of Jamming! book cover was designed by Martin StiffTony Fletcher Socials:FacebookInstagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Language: en Genres: Arts, Books, Music, Music History Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Ep. 37: The Fanzine Podcast wraps up with the RAPMM Fanzine Archive
Thursday, 8 January, 2026
The latest episode of The Fanzine Podcast, and it is also the last issue of The Fanzine Podcast. We wrap things up with an in-person visit to RAPMM – the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines, a digital archive of what are in fact mainly fanzines, 133 titles and counting, spanning genres, decades and countries. While RAPMM is essentially an online archive, it is operated from the City University of New York (CUNY)’s Graduate Center right by the Empire State Building, where many of the fanzines are also physically archived. It is there that host Tony Fletcher went to interview one of the prime archivists behind this project, Lindsey Eckenroth. Lindsey is among the rare Academics who is also a Fanzine Editor: Irrational Exit, which she runs with partner Joe, is a small-scale music zine that demonstrates that the culture is alive and thriving.This Episode 37 runs long, but it is in two distinct parts: the first an interview with Lindsey about RAPMM itself, followed by a fun flick through a variety of physical zines she pulled out of the archives for me to look over and discuss. They include Bomp!, Bam Balam, Blaze, miau!, Razorcake, In Effect, Louder Than Bombas, Hardcore Architecture and more. Dozens of other zines get discussed over the course of the episode.To see covers of some of these zines, screenshots of the RAPMM web site, and to read a longer article about this specific episode, please visit https://tonyfletcher.substack.com/p/the-final-fanzine-podcastTony Fletcher hosts another podcast, Crossed Channels, with Dan Epstein. Find it on your preferred streaming platform; full episodes are available to paid-up subscribers either of our Substack pages. More info at https://tonyfletcher.substack.com/podcast'The Jamming! Fanzine Podcast Theme' is by Noel Fletcher.Logo by Greg Morton.The Best of Jamming!: Selections and Stories from the Fanzine That Grew Up 1977-86 is published by Omnibus Press Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
