This glossy, professional magazine is the child of one Fat Mike (yeah, I’ve never heard of him either) and covers a wide range of punk bands and punkers all over. At first, once I saw how professional it looked and who was behind it, I thought it would really suck, but I was pleasantly surprised by the diversity of the content and the bands covered. There are news items about punk band members’ who were recently married, engaged, having babies, etc. There’s a feature on rating various beers, punks with their cars, their pets, what they’re listening to, the scoop on their first band and first time being intimate with someone and so on. So many little nuggets mean, in the end, this zine ends up being chock full of interesting stories. That’s not to mention that there are interviews with Henry Rollins, AFI, H20 and many more. On top of it all, there’s all kinds of great photos and, thankfully, not too much of a Fat Wreck bias, either. I’m not sure I’d necessarily go out of my way to pick this up again, but it’s still pretty interesting to read nonetheless. –Kurt Morris (Punk Rock Confidential, 236 W. Portal Ave. Suite 134, SF, CA 94127)