Noise Widow zines. I think it was really the issue #5 when I really even heard about this. It was slightly before the interview appeared on WCN, when one guy mentioned getting these. I latest issue Kate mentions that "Although in fairness, perhaps even more confounding are the reputable noise zines that don't make lick of sense to me. Not that those people want to trade, or even know I exists, it's just an ongoing gripe of mine."
I would assume every reputable noise zine out there has editor who would probably dig Noise Widow, at least to some extent! Simply as editors tend to be noise fanatics who are also strongly in favor of zines!
It's just that guys like myself, who are not in IG, nor perhaps have social interaction with all people in the scene, suddenly you don't hear about things. As simple as it would have been to any of the assumedly hundreds of readers of zine to mention it in one of zine topics of this forum, never been mentioned beyond classified ads of couple distro new arrivals.
New noise zines you think people didn't notice? Do them a favor and mention couple other people there is something out there. If they feel euro industrial brutes and such are not really their target audience, from this forum you'll find also other types of noise fans. For this exact reason, there was opened the "new interesting releases coming up" -topic. Seen something interesting announced at IG or label/band social media or whatever, feel free to mention it in topic so the cavemen who just live on forums, will hear about it.
All Noise Widow issues are quick to read, sure they do present kind of relatively closely knitted USA harsh noise scene approach, that may alienate people who have no idea who are being talked about and so on, but for most guys into noise, I'd assume it will be good.
There is some of the noise gossip features there too, and it is funny how little details do mutate over the years. It made me smile reading how Antipatik 7" topic on Chondritic forum almost broke the forum, as it was Russian Neo-nazi masturbating on the 7" covers until he cummed blood. Good story, and pretty accurate too, but Russian neonazis? haha... Well, good noise stories can be good regardless if they are entirely true.
