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Profane Existence Magazine Returning to Print!

After nearly two years hiatus, Profane Existence will resume its publishing schedule with the release of fall 2010 PRINTED issue of Profane Existence magazine. Among other features on deck are interviews with legendary MDC vocalist Dave Dictor and the members of soon to be legendary IN DEFENCE. The next issue will be sequentially numbered as Profane Existence #58, but only selected material from the web version of the same number will be printed. Everything else (columns, reviews, etc.) are all new and will not previously released on the web.

For this issue (and those in the foreseeable future) we're returning to our roots and will be publishing PE in the most basic and inexpensive black and white newsprint format available. We're finito with the color printing, glossy cover, CD compilation, barcode, and all the other bullshit that made it increasingly difficult and expensive to produce. PE #58 (and onwards) will be a bare-knuckled, to the point, no-frills, political punk zine and (best of all) we're going back to the original cover price we started with back in 1989: $1 in person from PE staff, DIY distro stalls, and select retail stores.

Profane Existence #57: magazine + CD

July-September 2008 issue is even more packed than ever, featuring interviews with the bands WARCOLLAPSE, AGAINST EMPIRE, MAN THE CONVEYORS ARMISTICE, AND KURSK. Features include RNC 2008 welcoming events, The Green Scare updates, Attica Prison uprising remembered, Got Your Back interview, Maygun's vegan recipe sections with summer food and drinks, columns, letters, tour dates festivals and events, and reiveiws, reviews, reviews! This also comes with our customary compilation CD featuring more than an hour of killer hardcore punk from 1977 to present.

The track list for the CD is:

Profane Existence #56: magazine + CD

April-June 2008 issue is another stuffed-to-the-gills, 80-page monster issue with tons of great reading. Feature-length interviews include MURDER DISCO EXPERIENCE, PROTESTANT, HEVN, BLACKOUT and ATOMGEVITTER plus updates from WOLFBRIGADE, MEANWHILE, AVSKUM and Slug & Lettuce editor Chris Boarts-Larson. There is also an interview and gallery from this month's cover artist AMY TOXIC, who combines classic styles with punk rock politics. Other features include the beginning of a PE's new political prisoners' section "Dehumanized Nation," Naked Maygun's vegan recipe section covering four-pages of mouth-watering Italian classics, and feature length article debunking the fat myth. There is also a photo spread from the recent Steve Ignorant's "Feeding of the 5000" event by Mateus Mondini plus a personal account by PE columnist Rob Hanna. This issue also features the first ever publication of a fictional in our pages with a short story by Leigh Pierce called Open Polls, Closed Minds, appropriately themed on future presidential election politics. Of course there is also a healthy dose from our regular columnists, reviews, letters and even a new "Back Page Punk" gaff (based on the legendary "Page 3 Punks" of old). Included with the magazine is the customary compilation CD, this time totally packed to within seconds of our 80-minute limit. The complete track list is as follows:

Profane Existence #55: magazine + CD

The January-March 2008 issue features interviews with the bands ATOMVINTER, WARTORN, COÃ„CCION, RESISTANT CULTURE, FACE UP TO IT!, THE FALLOUT, MASSMORD, and AUKTION. This issue's featured artist and cover illustrator is Matt Garabedian (you may also know him as the drummer of AUS-ROTTEN and BEHIND ENEMY LINES). There is also an introductory article on struggle for water, Cold Weather Foods in the Vegan Recipes pages, and ACURSED, SKITKIDS and Alan from Despotic Records are grilled in the return of the "Lies, Gossip + Rumors" section. There are also columns, letters, live photos and tons and tons of reviews. This also comes with an hour plus length compilation CD with the track listings as follows:

Profane Existence #54: magazine + CD

The Fall 2007 issues ushers in the return of the Featured Artist section with cover art (front and back), gallery, and interview with radical NYC artist Fly. There are also interviews with Erik Peterson of MISCHIEF BREW / Fistolo Records, plus the bands HUMAN ERROR and INHASTE. Naked Maygun's Vegan Recipes section includes an expansive three page feature on Latin-American favorites, including Spanish translations for several recipes. There are also many pages of columns, letters, Ecomedia News (another old section returns), and 298 music and print titles reviewed. As is now standard, this issue comes includes a compact discs compilation featuring a good cross section of active political-punk bands going these days. The total running time is 70 minutes with the complete track listing as follows...

Profane Existence 52/53: double issue + 2 CDs

Profane Existence Magazine returns to the land of the living with another jumbo-sized double issue. Without publishing for a whole year, there is lots of lost ground to make up and that includes featuring 11 band interviews. Put to the question are CHUMBAWAMBA, NUCLEAR DEATH TERROR, VISIONS OF WAR, SKARP, ABDUCTEE S.D., FALL OF EFRAFA, SIGNAL LOST, APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT, THE COOTERS, PISSCHRIST, and HAPPY BASTARDS. Filip of SEE YOU IN HELL writes an extensive tour report of their adventures in Japan, accompanied by photos of every well known they were lucky enough to play with. BEHIND ENEMY LINES' vocalist Dave Trenga continues is By Any MEDIUM Necessaryseries with an in depth look at the parallels with G.W. Bush's government with European fascism circa 1930-40s. Other conent included Naked Maygun's Vegan Recipes, the Subwar Collective, Club Heretic, and information on CLIT Fest '07 (in Richmond, VA). But above all else is extended coverage of the eviction and demolition Ungdomshuset "youth house" in Copenhagen, Denmark. This was the one fo the longest running autonomous spaces in Europe, home to a thriving anarcho-punk community, and the infamous K-Town festival. The March 1st eviction sparked three days of hardcore rioting across Copenhagen and hundreds of solidarity actions still reverberating all around the world. Central to our coverage is an article about the eviction by someone heavily invovled with the space for the last several years, plus official communiques and on the ground photographs taken as the events unfolded. Profane Existence still has such features as letters, columns, over 300 reviews, and some space dedicated to live band photos. This issue has a slightly different format from previous issues and is designed to be more easily published from this point on (bi-monthly schedule resumes with PE #54 in August!). This issue also introduces a new regular feature in the form of a compilation CD to accompany each issue. This will include songs from the bands featured in the magazine as well as from current anarcho-punk / crust bands worldwide. After receiving an ovewhelming amount of music submissions, we decided to include two CD's rather than cut anyone out. The second CD fatures all of the bands on Profane Existence Records covered in the magazine, plus serves as a sampler of our releases from 2005 through 2007. The complete linups are listed below.

Profane Existence 50/51: double issue + CD

Six months in the making, the highly anticipated PE 50/51 double issue a whole lot more than just twice the usual magazine, clockin in at a very hefty 196 pages!, but includes a Skuld Releases anniversary CD as well! Band interviews in this issue are with IMPERIAL LEATHER (Sweden), @PATIA NO (Venezuela), RUIN (UK), SICK TERROR (Brazil) and MASS GENOCIDE PROCESS (Czech). Replacing the featured artist fot this issue is a special focus on Skuld Releases, including an interview and extensive discography information. There is also a NAUSEA tour diary, written by roadie Jim Martin, featuring tons of pictures from US, Canadian, and European outings, giving an insightful and often hillarious look this long-departed band. Other features include a massive photo spread and summary report on second CLIT-Fest gathering (a festival aimed at smashing sexism in punk held in Minneapolis during July of 2005), a photo documentary on Nicaragua, an biographical article on Maria Eugenia Vasquez Perdomo, and more. Regular sections included in this issue are the return of Dave Trenga's By Any MEDIUM Necessary, focusing on the religious right's so-called "culture of life," The INjustice System pisoner focus pages, a massive installment Naked Maygun's Vegan Recipe guide, plus tons of columns and more reviews than you can shake a stick at.

Let us not forget that this issue comes with a 70-minute-long Skuld Releases discography sampler CD, containing a sampling of music output from 1991 to present, with the following track listing:

Profane Existence Magazine #49

July-August 2005

Just in time for summer, we have another action-packed issue of PE. Bands featured in this issue include BORN/DEAD, VOETSEK, MUTINY, SCHIFOSI and FxPxOx.This issue's featured artist is photographer and Slug and Lettuce editor Christine Boarts-Larson, whose interview and gallery is more than 20 pages long and contains almost 100 photographs! There is also an extensive article on the recent ¡La Rivolta! festival in Boston (modeled loosely on the CLIT Fest in Minneapolis) written by Erika Ransom of THE PROFIT$. There is also an extensive history of the Italian Anarchist Federation and newspaper Uminta' Nova, plus Naked Maygun's regular vegan recipes section. This is all in addition to the usual columns, letters and extensive review sections.

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What is PE Magazine

Profane Existence Magazine

Profane Existence Magazine is the quarterly publication of the PE collective and has been printed with several minor interruptions since 1989. Its stated purpose has been to feature news and information relevant to the international activist and anarcho-punk movement. Most of the content of Profane Existence is written by our motivated staff, but we also regularly receive writing, artwork, and photographic contributions from the community at large. Anarcho-punk is a truly global movement and for this reason we have contributors, subscribers and distributors in on every populated continent. Our articles are also regularly translated and republished in other zines the world over.

The contents of Profane Existence mainly includes coverage of the anarcho-punk movement and its related community and lifestyle. This includes interviews with many of bands, artists, activists, publishers that help keep our counterculture alive. We also feature opinions columns written regular contributors representing a diverse cross section of our movement, letters from our community, relevant news and current events, and tons and tons of music, print and video reviews. We also like to publish content that is relevant to the activist-oriented lifestyle of our readers. These include self-help primers, DIY healthcare, and even a vegan recipe sections. Our content is only limited by how often we publish and as many pages we can afford to print. For every magazine we send to print, another magazine's worth of content is sadly left on the press room floor (figuratively speaking of course - we can't afford an actual office)!

Profane Existence Magazine is a product of the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Punk Community. We believe in having as much control over the production and distribution of our magazine as possible. We work closely with literally hundreds of like-minded DIY bands, labels, publishers, distributors, and other organizations. In 1992 we practically wrote the book on DIY punk by co-releaseing the first ever Book Your Own Fucking Life DIY resource guide with Maximum Rocknroll magazine. To this day we still prefer to work within this community rather than sell ourselves to the corporate media conglomerates.

Since issue one Profane Existence has been made available free or cheaply to those held hostage by the state. We believe that many prisoners are victims of economic or social conditions stacked against them. We also believe that a huge chunk of the prisons system exists simply to warehouse the poor, underprivileged, unruly and otherwise undesirable portions of the population. The prison system is a giant industry and it is no small coincidence that the world's largest economy is also home to the highest per capita rate of imprisonment. We do not deny that there are indeed those justly imprisoned for hardcore acts of anti-social behavior, but we will also assert that these people make up only a small fraction of the overall prison population. Until a more just and equitable economic and social system is established we will continue to feature prisoners' issues within the pages of Profane Existence and send as many copies through the walls as we can afford.

Throughout the years the magazine has varied widely in format and style. Profane Existence has been at times a magazine, a newspaper, and even a perfect-bound book for several issues, sometimes even including a free compact disc sampler. This is a result of differing influences of a changing editorial staff as well as an ongoing evolution of content, design and style. The current iteration of Profane Existence has us back to the most basic newspaper format in an attemept to keep it both as cheap and simple as possible to produce and distribute. We are living in austure financial times and our current format reflects this.

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Ads MUST be sent electronically as an email file attachment to ads [AT] profanexistence [DOT] org or using a file delivery service such as yousendit.com (recommended for files over 5MB). Ads should be grayscale 300 dpi flattened .TIF (LZW is OK), PDF or high quality JPG files. Limit one ad per label, publisher, etc. Ad space is strictly limited and alloted on a first come, first served basis (both the ad copy AND payment must be received). Below are the deadlines, but space is strictly limited and may sell out in advance:

PE #59 = Aug. 31, 2010
PE #60 = Nov. 30, 2010
PE #61 = Feb 28, 2011
PE#62 = May 31, 2011

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Profane Existence
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Profane Existence
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