Wrote down some notes while reading through the latest issue of Untitled Zine, figured it'd be worthwhile to have a thread for a dedicated discussion of this and other noise-adjacent publications.
"People talking about people talking about noise"
Untitled #12: Spring 2026
Neat interview with Peter Keller / Bacillus, going over the cultural wasteland of 1980s Dayton plus first exposures to industrial and noise music, going onwards to the present day. Early friend of his was Mark Gunderson who operated The Evolution Control Committee project, pretty omnipresent on V/A compilations of the time, more cassette culture than noise as we know it now. Discusses early correspondences with Self Abuse Records, MSNP, Slaughter, marking 1992 as the year when harsh noise became more of an established movement and not just a byproduct of tape trading.
Also mentions Gajoob, Bananafish, ND (possibly the best / most comprehensive zine of the day, or all time — do your research if you're not familiar)
Originally the Croiners feature was supposed to include an interview, but due to various life delays etc, this has been put on the back burner. Finished piece is a collection of xerox artwork which I contributed from Jim's vast archive, Chris picked from these and did a terrific job with the layout. Gracious for the inclusion, and to shed more light on Jim's work. Up until last year he was pretty much MIA, all due praise to Gen Ken Montgomery for cuing us in.
New Boyfriends interview with Vilho and Veikko asking each other questions. Veikko mentions a new Finnish label, Kymijoki Levyt, which I'm interested in hearing.
Also "there's always a special kind of atmosphere when someone hands you a cassette from their canvas bag on the night of a gig and says they made it in complete silence", whenever I tour Finland this is a common occurrence, a stranger walks up with a self-released tape, makes an introduction, and suddenly they are no longer a stranger.
Good to see mention of Kenneth Grant in here too, bucket list author to acquire literally anything of his, been relying on PDFs for far too long
I knew the Blackhumour interview would be gold from the moment it was announced. Nice bits of comics / art / text pulled directly from his legendary tabtoblockbicuspid publication, and perhaps a given due to the nature of the project, he has a sure fire way with language — brief answers that convey more with sum of parts etc. Worth buying the zine for this alone.
Plus art features, more interviews, great stuff...