2024 Top 10s / WILD WKND Fanzine
I made two small fanzines that you can buy here. The first is a half sized zine that documents old venues in San Diego that hosted Punk shows. The second is a quarter sized zine that’s a ridiculous tribute to the pro wrestler Bad News Allen/Brown. You can read the Dead Clubs one here and the Bad News one here, and then decide if they’re worth your $3 and $1.38, respectively.
The WILD WKND moniker is a reference to the 2nd, and best, 7” by The Zeros - San Diego County’s OG Punk band. Shoutout Chula Vista. I’ll have a big full sized zine coming out in the next month or so about the year 2024 in San Diego, so keep an eye peeled for that. I also have plans to repress the Nardcore - 1981 to Infinity fanzine as a full sized zine with some added stuff sometime next year.
LISTS LISTS LISTS LISTS LISTS LISTS LISTS LISTS LISTS
The end-of-the-year season is upon us where people will predictably fawn over industry lists.
“Wow…Pitchfork ranked XgroupX #47 and Brooklyn Vegan ranked XbandX 39th, PLUS they have an exclusive vinyl color in their store!”
I’m not above EOY fever myself and admittedly love lists. 185 Miles South has our 4th annual awards show episode coming out this Monday and the 2024 Super 7 episode will come out on Dec 30th, where we talk the best Hardcore and Punk songs of 2024. I thought I might as well give my personal top 10 lists here on the blog as well.
The lists aren’t ranked and are just in alphabetical or chronological order. Before we start, shoutout to the best cassette comp of the year 185 Miles South of Somewhere. It sold out but you can jam it here.
LPs:
1. Burning Lord - Arcane Demolition - Streets of Hate
2. Canal Irreal - Someone Else's Dance - Beach Impediment
3. Invertebrates - Sick To Survive - Beach Impediment
4. Kriegshog - Love & Revenge - La Vida Es Un Mus
5. Life/Destruct - To Stop The Conflict - Desolate
6. Missing Link - Watch Me Bleed - Triple B
7. Mob 47 - Tills Du Dor - D-Takt & Rapunk Records
8. Nails - Every Bridge Burning - Nuclear Blast
9. Public Acid - Deadly Struggle - Beach Impediment
10. Split System - Vol 2 - Legless
EPs:
1. Bayway - Bayway Takes Manhattan - DAZE
2. Collateral - We Still Know - Fortress/Scheme
3. Echo Chamber - S/T - DBNO/Scheme
4. En La Muerte - Silencio - Extinction Burst
5. Enemic Interior - III - Mendeku Diskak
6. Problems - Beg For Release - Adult Crash
7. The Massacred - Death March - Active-8
8. Thought Control - Sick and Tired of the Talking Heads - Crew Cuts
9. Torena - No Control - DAZE
10. Yellowcake - A Fragmented Truth - Total Peace
Demos:
1. Face The Pain - Rebirth
2. False Salvation - Rebirth
3. Fatal Realm - Self Released
4. Freeze Out - Tribe Dream
5. Hindsight - Rebirth
6. House Arrest - Extinction Burst
7. Identity Shock - Designated Moshers Unit
8. No Idols - Designated Moshers Unit
9. The Next Level - Scheme
10. Ultimate Disaster - Acute Noise Manufacture
Shows:
Songs:
2024 Super 7 coming 12/30/24, sucka!
Did you forget you wanted to order my sick ass zines? Here’s the link again.
- ZN
So much great music. Thank you so much. Listening to Burning Lord at the moment, that old-school-drawn artwork is marvelous.