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In Praise of Occasional Staples: James Brown on the Age of the Zine

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In the early 80s, the Tory government accidentally helped fund a network of fanzines that were vital to the European musical underground. James Brown recalls a time of obsessive creativity currently having a revival Pages from Attack On Bzag! as featured in Zine Age Kicks, courtesy of James Brown Scrolling through instagram recently I came across an account for the Raising Hell fanzine, an A5 har…

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