Artcore Issue #23

TO CELEBRATE TWENTY YEARS OF ARTCORE WE'VE BROUGHT YOU A VERITABLE PUNK ROCK GOODIE BAG FOR ISSUE #23!
THE ZINE IS A 40 PAGE ONE-AND-A-HALF-FOLD LP SLEEVE THAT WRAPS AROUND A 22 TRACK COMPILATION LP!

THE ALBUM IS A RE-MASTERED RE-WORKED RE-RELEASE OF A CASSETTE COMPILATION THAT ARTCORE WAS INVOLVED IN, THAT ORIGINALLY CAME OUT IN 1986, SLIMMED DOWN TO LP LENGTH! AMERICA'S UNKNOWN IS ARTCORE VINYL FANZINE NO.1 AND INCLUDES RARE AND UNRELEASED TRACKS FROM EVEN RARER BANDS: ASH TRADITION, IDENTITY CRYSIS, STUKAS OVER BEDROCK, P.T.L. KLUB, HORROR PLANET, STEVIE STILETTO AND THE SWITCHBLADES, CHRONIC DISORDER, ENTROPY AND MAGGOT SANDWICH! THE ZINE ITSELF, APART FROM INDEPTH INFO ON THE ALBUM AND BANDS WITH THE ORIGINAL BOOKLET REPRODUCED, HAS INTERVIEWS WITH CAREER SUICIDE, SMALLTOWN, DIRECT CONTROL AND LISA FANCHER OF FRONTIER RECORDS, AND VAULTAGE HAS INDEPTH HISTORIES OF BEMISBRAIN RECORDS, BAD POSTURE, STATE AND AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR OF THE GREAT BOOK 'GOING UNDERGROUND' GEORGE HURCHALLA. AS WELL AS THIS THERE'S ALL YOUR USUAL RANTIN' 'N' RAVIN' 'N' REVIEWIN' AND MORE! THE WHOLE PACKAGE COMES WITH A HAND STAMPED INNER BAG, FLYERS AND QUALITY 400GM POLYTHENE SLEEVE.