At some point in the last year or so, **all the issues of the seminal Punk Planet zine were uploaded to the Archive.org** and as a result, I began reading through their old album reviews. I thought it'd be neat to try and see how much of this stuff ended up on streaming so I began putting together playlists based off these issues of the zine.
<aside> ❓ Punk Planet was a 16,000 print run punk zine, based in Chicago, Illinois, that focused most of its energy on looking at punk subculture rather than punk as simply another genre of music to which teenagers listen. In addition to covering music, Punk Planet also covered visual arts and a wide variety of progressive issues — including media criticism, feminism, and labor issues. - Wikipedia
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At first, I wanted to use any bands referenced in the entire zine but that became clearly too big of an undertaking for me so I decided instead to just focus on their reviews section.
Here's my playlists so far - it should be said (and be quite obvious) that a ton of this shit isn't on streaming and so these are not comprehensive. I tried to search as much as I could though - generally doing an Artist + Album or Release Name search, a Discogs search to find track listings on releases, an Artist + Track Name search and then finally just the Artist Name and seeing if any tracks at all credited to them match up to the reviewed release.
Let me know if I've missed anything! I've included links to the Zines themselves above the playlists as well!
Punk Planet 01 (1994 May-June) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eYBRo1MZVJ6sstolt0saH?si=7eb6ba49029b40ac
Punk Planet 02 (1994 July-Aug) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/40RXiX0Ssz5A3cLnB7Kk0a?si=59198c28d25e485f
Punk Planet 03 (1994 Sep-Oct) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/46Wjbr1HteSzEoyXSYh622?si=f5d5a364839b438c