PIE

This debut issue of PIE (it’s acronym stands for Punk/Indie/Emo) is at best generic, but the appalling cover price ($4 including shipping, which would buy you a much better and well-written edition of Punk Planet) is downright baffling. There are hardly twenty pages here and some of the material is pilfered from elsewhere (like Znet for commentary on the September 11th attacks) and there is even page filler (the laughable “photo page,” which consists of two very badly xeroxed photographs). PIE is chock-full of band interviews and overviews, but nothing revealing or interesting. Just the standard “so-how-was-the-tour?” and “when-are-you-recording-next?” Weirder still, some of the interviews took place on or just after September 11, yet no one comments on it, and the interviewers even go so far as to avoid it. The punk scene, which this zine is really trying to represent, often faces the criticism of not being as politically astute as the scene projects itself to be, so avoiding the 9/11 attacks was particularly disheartening. PIE has a lot of improving to do, before they can expect people to send two twoonies to check this out. (Kevin Jagernauth)

music zine, #1, $3 + $1 shipping, Chris George & Karly Tabak, 49 Dante Crescent, Brantford, ON, N3P 1B9, [email protected], www.piezine.iwarp.com

 

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