This is hard. I like Rocco a lot. He’s so positive and earnest. When he visited LA, we went out and ate Mexican food together and he gave me a stack of zines. Rocco’s a lifer – he’s booked clubs, he runs a radio show, and he’s a huge supporter. That said, Hatemachine suffers, not from enthusiasm and heart – he covers the Las Vegas Rockaround, Dead Bolt, his local music scene – but the fact that it’s terribly hard to read. The grammar’s bad, it needs to be proofed, and that makes it very hard to follow trains of thought along. Damn, that’s hard to write. I hate to solicit on his behalf, but if you live in the Seattle area, are looking to lend a hand, want to help out a great guy, and have good editing chops, I suggest dropping Rocco a line. It’d be harder to find a guy with a bigger heart. –Todd (Rocco Galloway, PO Box 2743, Eugene, OR97402)