Description
Beyond the Blackout was a Los Angeles–based fanzine that captured the mid-1980s underground music and art scene with immediacy and grit. Issue #4 is a “Special Photo Issue,” heavy on black-and-white performance and candid images, laid out with that raw, Xerox-era aesthetic that defines the period. A true document of the city’s post-punk, goth, and hard rock crossover moment—before it calcified into nostalgia.
Photographs include a wide array—from Sisters of Mercy to Stevie Ray Vaughan to The Cramps, H.R. Giger, Exploited, Simple Minds, Nick Cave…and more. Inside back-cover early L.A. Guns gig advert (with Johnny Thunders) puts probable publication date early 1987. There’s also that great Hollywood Book & Poster Co. ad on the rear back cover—pure 1980s L.A. ephemera. You know these small-run regional fanzines were never meant to survive; they were read, passed around, and trashed. Finding clean copies is getting harder every year.
Ideal for collectors of punk, goth, and 1980s West Coast scene history.
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