Keep Your Ear to the Ground

By John R. Davis

Davis, a curator of the University of Maryland’s DC punk collection, wrote this intriguing history of the city’s punk zines . It may seem like an arcane topic, but the stories of publications like the Infiltrator, Truly Needy, Thrillseeker, WDC Period, and Metrozine aren’t widely documented, making this a valuable resource—and also just a good read for anyone who cares about the area’s music scene. Some of the zines had brief lives or very limited audiences. (One had a print run of 25 copies.) But all contributed to a sense of community back when the effort of discovering basic information was a big part of the fun.

Descenes and Discords: An Anthology

By Howard Wuelfing

A key zine in Davis’s book is Descenes, which chronicle

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