A disappointingly small percentage of the DIY zine movement survived the transition from print to digital unscathed. Fortunately Henry Owings’ Athens, Georgia-centric Chunklet crossed the rubicon not only unscathed but skillfully, maintaining the magazine’s near-obsessive love of bands few knew about then and fewer remember now, adding the ability for like-minded aficionados to download and hear rare, sometimes never-released recordings. Couldn’t do that on paper!
Most recently the site is getting traffic for posting a 40-minute compilation of Fugazi onstage banter (yes, really); a few other evocative (and true) post titles include “Dennis Miller Completely Sucks At Everything”, “The Misfats (The World’s Most Corpulent Misfits Cover Band) “, “Victory Records Can Suck It (Better Than Anybody)”, “All These Years Later The Jesus Lizard Still Deliver Better Than Domino’s”, and of course “Q: What’s The Difference Between Paste Magazine And A Bucket Of Shit?” (my personal favorite of the dozens of answers: “It’s possible for a bucket of shit to have been made by a talented writer.”)
Looks like the most recent issue of the print magazine was about fifteen months ago, but considering there was a three-year gap before that one came out I wouldn’t expect anything too quickly. Never mind, plenty of stuff here to catch up on.
