Razorcake

RAZORCAKE is the first and only officially recognized non-profit DIY punk rock fanzine in the United States, focused on promoting and uplifting the independent music scene.

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To Ease My Troubled Mind By Ted Kessler, 336 pgs.

1 month ago | razorcake.org | Ted Kessler |Alice Bag |Kevin Dunn |Chris Walter

May 20, 2025In some ways, I’m probably the worst person to review To Ease My Troubled Mind. The subject, Billy Childish, sounds familiar, but I wouldn’t be able to pick him out of a lineup or tell you what he’s known for. On the other hand, I’m a great person to review this book because this was a whole new world of a fascinating individual. I was open to having my socks blown clean off my feet. For those unfamiliar with Childish, he’s a man of myriad talents.
Shot in the Dark: In the Pit, Vol. 2 By Alison Braun, 109 pgs.

Mar 27, 2025 | razorcake.org | Alison Braun |Bob Rob Medina |Rebecca Solnit

Mar 27, 2025Alison Braun’s first book covered punk artists from the ’80s and early ’90s, while her second volume, Shot in the Dark, focuses on the metal and thrash scenes of the same era. This hardcover book features a diverse array of artists. Some are well-known, including Slayer, Metallica, Motörhead, Megadeth, and Anthrax. Others may be lesser-known to those outside the metal genre, such as Corrosion Of Conformity, Kreator, Exodus, and Testament.
Mia Zapata and the Gits: A Story of Art, Rock, and Revolution By Steve Moriarty, 258 pgs.

Jan 23, 2025 | razorcake.org | Jeff Kaliss

To be clear, I’ve been a Gits fan for over thirty years. I think their album Frenching the Bully can be considered one of the best examples of what wild-ass, smart, self-reflective, incendiary music punks are capable of. They were a nuanced band: smart, propulsive as hell, inventive, with a massive guitar sound. One of my biggest musical regrets is not getting to see them live.
Chris Chappell Photo Column-Fan Club

Nov 24, 2024 | razorcake.org | Javier Cabral

Years ago, I went to see Dark Thoughts at the short-lived DIY space the Cherry Pit in Seattle. As a relative newcomer to the city, I wasn’t familiar with the long-running opener Lysol. What I witnessed during their set was something I’d never forget. It was like a firm slap across the face. Singer, Nearl Haggard would shove the mic in their mouth, thrash around, and bend over backwards. It was beautiful. Trying to find more about the band online was difficult.
Euphoric Recall: A Half Century as a Music Fan, Producer, DJ, Record Executive, and Tastemaker By Peter Jesperson, 280 pgs.

Nov 20, 2024 | razorcake.org | Louie Cronin |Brad Warner |Dave Kress |Aphid Peewit

Nov 20, 2024Peter Jesperson has spent his entire adult life working in the music business in some capacity or another. Most well known for discovering, and then managing, The Replacements, he also co-founded Twin/Tone Records, road managed REM briefly, and spent time in an A&R capacity at labels like Restless and New West.
How to Play a Necromancer’s ThereminBy Chase Griffin & Christina Quay, 226 pgs.

Nov 20, 2024 | razorcake.org | Chase Griffin |Christina Quay |Daryl Gussin |Steve Hart

Nov 20, 2024How to Play a Necromancer’s Theremin is a psychedelic fictional story of a world where there is an absolute ever-changing text called the Patasphere, where a group of fanatics who enjoy ripping up and eating their favorite books for the drug trips they induce, decide to travel into this book’s world, along with two private investigators, in search of their favorite author’s best stories, convinced that this author is some type of god who can create and destroy worlds. Are you lost?
My Rock’n’Roll Friend By Tracey Thorn, 248 pgs.

Sep 19, 2024 | razorcake.org | Tracey Thorn |Sean Arenas |Mike DeCapite |Yumii Thecato

Sep 19, 2024The author, Tracey Thorn, is one half of the U.K. duo Everything But The Girl. Her rock’n’roll friend is Lindy Morrison, former drummer of the Australian band The Go-Betweens. Neither of which are punk bands but, if you need that particular card punched before proceeding, Morrison originally drummed for the radical punk band Zero. This book is Thorn’s attempt to narrate her best friend’s life, even though Morrison is still very much alive and could do it herself.
Collapsing Frontier, The, By Jonathan Lethem, 176 pgs.

Sep 19, 2024 | razorcake.org | Jonathan Lethem |Ian Svenonius |Brad Warner |Collapsing Frontier

Sep 19, 2024PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series is one of the most unique and fun things going on in the publishing world currently. The concept is straightforward: find interesting, thought-provoking, boundary-pushing writers from across the literary and political landscape, and publish their shortform work in a pocket-sized edition.
Our History Is the Future By Nick Estes, 340 pgs.

Sep 19, 2024 | razorcake.org | Nick Estes

Free of context, the dams along the Missouri River in my home state of South Dakota are eye-pleasing monoliths of landscape architecture. Then you read Nick Estes’s history Our History Is the Future and come to this passage:The loss of wildlife and plant life and the gardens also had a deleterious health impact [on the Indigenous people of the area]. Prior to the dams, there was no diabetes. After the dams, diabetes rates soared.
Night Never Ends, The, By Steve Thueson, 128 pgs.

Sep 19, 2024 | razorcake.org | Steve Thueson |Jim Saah |Kurt Vonnegut |Jason Rodgers

“Kate’s thirtieth birthday is going to be killer...”If this comic was a movie, that’s the tagline I’d imagine on the poster. And I think low budget horror movie vibes are what cartoonist Steve Thueson was shooting for with The Night Never Ends. Kate, a woman of the punk-leaning persuasion, is about to turn thirty. She has suckered four of her friends to spend the last night of her twenties in an abandoned house, in a bad neighborhood, with a Ouija board. Real smart, Kate.