SCHEME REPORT:
It's been just about one year around the sun for Scheme and what are we going to do to celebrate it? We're going to shill some merchandise onto you, of course! First off, we have a live tape from ALL DUE RESPECT, bringing it down Western Massacre Style at St. Vitus in Brooklyn:
Second, we have a new double-sided tee:
We're running a preorder for a couple days. Please don't be mad at us if we don't ship it out for a bit. If you have the BURN shirt we lifted the front graphic from, hit up Kyle to sell it to him.1
Finally we have some literature for your coffee table, more info and elaboration on that later in the newsletter.
On a semi-serious note, thanks to all the Schemers who have supported and will continue to support this endeavor over the past year.
Coming soon in Scheme Year Two:
- Cool hats!
- The formation of the Scheme LLC via LegalZoom discount codes.
- The Scheme Twitch channel.
- An NFT of Calvin pissing on the Daze logo.
- The Greatest Hardcore 7" Compilation Of All Time.
- The North Eazt Times Newspaper.
- Our pivot into publishing books of legitimate and illegitimate content.
- Probably other records, tapes and zines that we haven't thought of yet.
SCENE REPORT:
It’s been all quiet on the North Eaztern front as of late…or we just haven’t been paying much attention. Some content that has come across our desk is the very well written piece by Tony Rettman over on his Substack, where he eloquently writes about how the Justified Arrogance Instagram page is lame as shit without explicitly naming it. We’ll say it tho. We applaud him for his efforts and implore you to subscribe to his newsletter and support any of his efforts with No Idols.
200+ SUNAMI tapes sold out in less than an hour online……our thoughts? Well….we really don’t have any. I do theorize that if someone like Tommy Rat heard their ANIMOSITY cover in ‘84 that he would simply just implode like Blackbolt in the new Doctor Strange, akin to if one of our founding fathers drank McDonald's Sprite.
Our cohorts in Northern Unrest recently dropped a new fanzine that checks all notches that qualify it as certified fresh in 2022. It looks like it is sold out in their store at the moment, but Streets Of Hate is currently taking pre-orders for a pressing in the US of A…order that alongside a copy of the new END OF ONE material, the finest in Hudson Valley Tommy Hilfiger death metal.
KYLE’s PLAYLIST:
THE PROMISE - Believer
THE WEAKERTHENS - Left and Leaving
HIGH VIS
PRAISE - All In A Dream
DROWNING (France..not Midwest Circus music)
VOMIT FORTH - Seething Malevolence
LIAR - Fall Of Torment
ALL DUE RESPECT - Live at St Vitus
ALBIN’s PLAYLIST:
SUFFOCATION - Pierced From Within
BIG CHEESE - Punishment Park
WARTHOG - Warthog (the tag on the billboard is a psyop)
PRAISE - All In A Dream
DISCHARGE - Hear Nothing...
PAINTBOX
JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD - Make My Head Sing
KERO KERO BONITO - Time N Place
TEENAGE FANCLUB - Thirteen
Scheme Zine Distro:
Here's something new that we've wanted to get off the ground from the jump and we finally have some willing soulz taking part, the SCHEME zine distro. First up we've got Rage Fanzine Issue #3, a product of Belgium and one of the most solid zines going in the entire wide world of hardcore. Everyone of these so far looks like a lost issue of Boiling Point and you couldn't ask for a better representation of what hardcore zines should look and feel like. Great pictures and varied content all splayed out in a totally dialed-in layout make for something kids should be ripping off in 10 or 20 years. Special thanks to Geert and Bjorn for trusting us with this.
Second on the docket is pure North Carolina Straight Edge Nostalgia zine "A New Reality", a FIRST STEP retrospective by Matt K of MAGNITUDE and Scheme Alum - SEARCH FOR PURPOSE. Interviews with the members and crew, and seldom seen pictures create a full view of A time that NCSE reigned supreme, all through the locus of someone who grew up in the shadow of that scene. Matts involvement and curation give this the personal touch that a hardcore zine needs, he wasnt asking questions just for you, he was on his own mission to entrench himself in the history of a band that means a lot to him.
Some Zine tips you didn't ask for....
Make it for yourself
Here's an easy one, don't make a zine or do content about something you don't give a shit about. Hardcore zining isn’t fucking TMZ, the world will keep spinning if you dont add to the heap of bullshit bands making bullshit records. This applies to asking bad questions, if you don't give a shit what someone's favorite 5 BREAKDOWN songs are why should anyone else? Stop wasting ink.
Don't borrow, Steal
All my "good" ideas (Questions/layouts/writing style/graphic style) I steal. You gotta figure 10,000 hardcore zines exist in the world, you're probably not reinventing the wheel. Don't even feel like you have to, if you're gonna make a better product in the end by ripping off a zine from 1998s entire layout, you're smart. (Don't be a fucking idiot and copy the New Northern Unrest zine that came out last week; use your head)
Ask for help
If you want to make a zine about anything and you just don’t get it, just reach out to someone who makes zines…we’re all fucking losers who want to tell people how to make something better. Hardcore is better when we do it together, so keep that in mind when your beating your head against the wall trying to figure out how to use scissors and glue.
If you want your zine distributed, our door is always open for things that you put real effort into or if it’s low effort and you’re just very naturally good at making a zine.
YOUTH OF TODAY - EURO TOUR “DOCUMENTARY”
After watching three of the Evangelion Rebuild movies and starting a playthrough of Shin Megami Tensei 3 this week, I decided I needed to cleanse myself from all of that depressing, yet lit, content and pivot to another beautiful artistic medium: 360p videos of YOUTH OF TODAY. In my travels, I encountered this video chronicling YOT's '89 tour with their best lineup2:
Some highlights and topics of discussion:
- Dope SICK OF IT ALL Pushed Too Far cover to start off the video.
- Referring to standard show footage as a documentary or movie is a really funny bit and needs to happen more. When will there be an OUT FOR JUSTICE film I can review on Letterboxed? Oh wait.
- Ray Cappo explaining what positive hardcore is to a German woman while dripped out in the robes. Bonus points for her to say a sentence in German afterwards and his response just being "....what?" and it immediately cutting to the next segment of footage.
Just to note, and without tryin to shill, there is a fantastic write up about one of these shows by an attendee in the issue of Rage Fanzine that we are currently stocking.
Don’t try and sell me anything, take this INSIGHT long sleeve and be happy.
Maybe? I don't even know if I can say that in earnest. The lineup with Richie and Craig is the coolest for sure.
Yooo