GAD! Zine Issue 4

  In theory, this site was originally supposed to supplement the print version of the GAD! Zine and maybe even surpass it. With the immediacy of the INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY, how could it not? 

    I dunno, but it hasn't. 

    I still hope to one day offer crap-tons of content to this page, things that are just too of-the-moment to wait and put out in a physical zine a month or three late. IN THE FUTURE, maybe, kinda, this page will offer cool and interesting content on a regular basis. Perhaps DAILY?? We'll see. But in the meantime, I figure we can at least share the back issues of GAD! (and maybe some of our other zines) here. We also plan to make every issue available in PDF format, just not today.

    Below, you will find the fourth issue of GAD!, an Alabama-based underground zine. Every issue is a raw disaster made with lots of love. 

    GAD! Issue 4 starts what I at least think may be a pattern (though I've been too laz.... busy to actually look), where we do a big fat longer-to-put-out issue (Issue 3) and follow it with a snappier usually smaller issue. After all the stress of trying to pack everything into that one zine that takes forever and uses up a lotta resources, only to realize that we left out a bunch of stuff, we say, "Never again!", and immediately start cranking out the next issue. See, the longer you take to put out an issue without a solid deadline, the more content appears before you get the thing out. Lots of times, reviews get left out because we were thinking about them and talking about them early on and either forget about them or assume that we put it in the previous issue. This got way worse after we started GADcast Radio, because I would remember reviewing music that I talked about on the show and think I'd written it down. In other words, I did review it, just not on paper. I still stand by the concept that shorter and quicker zines more often is better than longer zines that you have to wait months and months, life just gets in the way and it doesn't always happen.

This issue continued our reaching out for interviews of cool locals and semi-locals that we appreciated, like director Daniel Emory Taylor, Bill from Random Conflict, and Nathan from Carridale. Lots of reviews, poetry, and doodles. Not a bad zine. Another classic!! -Harmless

































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