Thursday night before MMW7 heads over to the Double Door for music from Jesus + Devil, Low of the Low, the Quitters and My Big Beautiful, local writers will be taking the stage at Sheffield's to spout off some their best words. Performing the readings will be talents like Alicia Dorr, A.B. Drea and Emerson Dameron. The event is sponsored by both Fall of Autumn and Chicago Underground Library. We recently got a chance to learn more about Fall of Autumn and their place on the Chicago Indie Media scene.
Fall of Autumn is an online resource site and distro dedicated to producing and promoting independent media, culture, news and views. They publish short stories (both fiction and non-fiction), articles, essays, poetry, podcasts and reviews. You’ll find a wide variety of contributors including zinesters, bloggers, distro operators, accomplished authors and even an independent filmmaker.
The Fall of Autumn Zinester Podcast series garnered much of their readership, with the first ever podcast series specifically for zinesters. Each episode of the Zinester Podcasts features a different zinester reading from their zine, like a zine audiobook. A few months ago, they were accepted into the iTunes Music Store, where their Zinester Podcasts are now available to millions of iTunes users, all for free.
The Fall of Autumn distro contains about fifty titles, and they're constantly adding more. They publish in depth reviews of every zine they carry, as well as reviews of independently released music.
Future plans include publishing a book on zining called "Pride and Photocopies," a punk-rock clipart section and to further develop their ZinesterPodcasts. (thanks Alan at FOA)
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