here's the text version of my FACT talk on the hardcore continuum + notes for points to be addressed in the dialogue with k-punk but not brought up owing to time running out + afterthoughts on the past, present and future of the Nuum.

my latest blog post at The Guardian, about "the sample-epiphany", cueing off this new compilation Protected: Massive Samples which reveals the sources for all those Blue Lines et al beauties

fanzines (slight return)

something in the air - two recent pieces on zines:

on the resurgence

on the archiving of zines

also

a bloke called Matt Wobensmith tells me he's planning to open a "vintage fanzine store" in San Francisco in the near-ish future; for now he buys collections (mostly early punk and related but also riot grrrl and indie rock) and sells zines via his online business http://www.ibuyzines.com/