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The Alex Kinon correspondence collection (1982-1986 and undated) contains fan mail and other correspondence sent to Kinon from fans, including questionnaires, zines, show flyers, photographs, handwritten and types letters, and other ephemera such as pinback puttons and stickers. Collection also include a small number of mixtapes and live recordings on cassette.

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Collection consists of interview notes taken by Bart Mills, newspaper and magazine clippings, press releases, press photos and slides, and other materials relating to punk music. Includes files on Hugh Cornwell of the Stranglers and the film "Rude Boy," a film about a roadie for the Clash. Also includes materials on the Sex Pistols, Patti Smith, and other musicians.

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Catalogs of punk-style clothing and accessories.

Abstract The collection features material focused on Cortez's activities as co-founder and manager of the Mudd Club, 1977-1979, with items by or relating to artists with whom he collaborated, such as Jimmy de Sana, Arto Lindsay, Kathy Acker, James Nares and Boris Policeband, and Diego's original artwork for the seminal "No New York" (1978) LP. There are 7 black and white photographs (5x7) by Digne Meller Marcovicz taken around Diego's film "Grutzi Elvis" shot in Germany (1978), 11 black and white...

Abstract Approximately 135 pieces complied by Diego Cortez comprising of material related to both his 1981 No Wave show at PS1 and many of the personalities involved in the artistic and musical scenes of the period, including Jimmy DeSana, James Chance, Anya Phillips, Fab 5 Freddy, Bob Gruen, Robert Gordon, Glenn O'Brien, Legs O'Neil, Ray Johnson, Debbie Harry, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, among others. The collection also contains concert flyers, photographs, and exhibition materials, including early...

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Punk and underground music related magazines and fanzines. Also files on bands and punk venues that include flyers, posters, and other ephemera. The remainder of the collection, which includes 500 LP, 45, and CD recordings, along with approximately 100 related books have been cataloged individually.

Content Description Approximately 150 flyers, zines, documents, and other pieces of ephemera tracing the history of hardcore punk through its 1980s network of bands, venues, record labels, radio stations, and underground publications that linked hyper-local scenes throughout the United States and internationally to form a broader subculture. The collection features many of the genre’s defining bands, including Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Fugazi, Necros, and Negative Approach, as well as acts largely...

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36 letters with enclosures comprising fan correspondence to Sab Grey and Mark Haggerty of the Washington, D.C., hardcore punk band Iron Cross. Most correspondence is addressed to Grey at Dischord Records’ “Dischord House” in Arlington, Virginia, with some addressed to Haggerty in Bethesda, Maryland. Also included are replies from Grey and Haggerty to fans, some with photocopied flyers.

Content Description The Keith Busch Northeast Ohio Punk Archive documents the graphic and musical activities of zine-maker, designer, and musician Keith Busch, dating from 1979 to 1990. It contains approximately 300 unique sheets of original collage and mockup for zines, flyers, and posters; 19 complete zines; 82 Xerox flyers and mockup sheets; three original collage artworks; and 49 cassette tapes of music by Ragged Bags, live recordings of local shows, mix tapes, and other home recordings. The materials...

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Underground zines and magazines, photographs, correspondence and interviews, ephemera, notebooks and other manuscripts, drawings, and associated publications.