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Head in a Milk Bottle is about living and breathing rock'n'motherfuckin'roll. It's about loving a style of music that's as much a part of AMERICA as baseball, apple pie, hot wings, corn liquor and MOPAR muscle. It's about raw, wild, obscure underground music and unpopular culture, both old and new, such as '60s-influenced garage rock; mod/psych; '77-style punk rock; proto-punk; power pop/new wave; lowdown, dirty blues; greasy R&B; surf/hot rod instrumental trash; rockabilly/psychobilly; and other various forms of primitive rock 'n' roll (what editor Bob Thurmond affectionately refers to as "dick-shakin' music"). HIAMB is also about trashy, low-budget American culture such as cult cinema and B-movies (crime, film noir, sci-fi, gore, horror, sexploitation, juvenile delinquent, etc.), independent film, underground press, and sick and twisted art, comix and humor.
WARNING: We are NOT about lame "alternative rock," "modern rock," "goth rock," "emo," "hardcore," "indie," "ska-core," "jam bands," "rap/hip hop," "funk metal," "house/techno" or poppy, watered-down, shopping-mall corporate rock bullshit, so if that's what you're into we suggest you read this instead. OUR focus is raw-assed roots raunch and the sleazy culture surrounding it, damn it! So take that mall-rat homogenized crap elsewhere, chump!  If this focus seems a bit different from that of the original 'zine, circa 1985, well, you're wrong! We still love all of the music covered in those original pages, so don't be deceived into thinkin' we're just a bunch of old farts with our feet and ears planted in the past, cuz you couldn't be more wrong. It's just that MOST punk rock and hardcore music has become so bland and homogenized by the mainstream since then that we feel the REAL pulse of the underground rock'n'roll scene exists in the unbridled spirit of untamed and uncompromised primitive forms of rock'n'roll, be those punk rock, garage, rockabilly, mod, surf, or whatever the hell you wanna call 'em. The music's gotta ROLL, baby! "ROCK" music SUCKS! Rock'n'Roll is where it's at. And the problem with most of today's "modern rock/alternative" crap is that it just don't roll... Get it? Got it? Good! Do we know what we're talkin' about? Well, we'd like to think so, and we may not be the most knowledgeable or "qualified" folks to write about this junk, but we're not seeing many others out there giving it a shot (ESPECIALLY in this part of the country), so what the hell, right? We're at least gonna TRY to prove our point (that rock'n'roll is still very much alive, natch) in each and every issue of this filthy rag, and if we fail to make a dent in this sorry-assed state of popular music, then well, at least we tried. Our "staff" (for lack of a better word to describe the freaks and lowlifes responsible for this mag) will see to it that you at least are shown a slice of the music scene that you just don't normally get from most slick, modern music publications. Will it last forever? Of course not. But we'll continue to put this rag out as long as we're still having fun with it, can somehow avoid burnout, and can afford to cover the costs of printing future issues! Sam Cooper would've appreciated that. |
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