Throwback Thursdays Retro Zines; Rear Garde (April 1988)

Rear Garde Magazine ~ April 1988

By this issue Montreal's Rear Garde was less of a program guide for CSGR and more of a straight-up music mag, although they still printed their top 30 charts.

This issue featured interviews w/NoMeansNo, Schooly D, A Neon Rome, UIC and the Wailers (that's Bob Marley's band, not the 1960's Seattle band) with reviews of records by; Alien Sex Fiend, Einsturzende Neubauten, Lydia Lunch, Agnostic Front, Tav Falco, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Front Line Assembly, Gang Grenn, the Corndogs, Dave Howard, Whitenoise, 13 Engines, the Crumbsuckers and the Legendary Pink Dots. There were concert reviews for the Nouvelle Musique Festival w/The Asexuals, Teenage Head, Fail Safe, Condition, Change Of Heart, Jerry Jerry, Three O'Clock Train, The Darned, the Hodads and a cast of dozens.

A NEON ROME ~ "THE MAGICAL SUMMER OF 85";


Montreal club listings for that month include; Henry Rollins Band & Failsafe, the Gruesomes & the Ten Commandments, These Imortal Souls, Big Dipper, Lillian Allen & Fifth Column, the Crawlin'Kingsnakes, the Hodads, the Village People, Ziggy Marley, Celine Dion (apparently some of her first gigs), the Curiosity Shop, Savage Garden, the Corndogs & EJ Brule, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, the Doughboys, the Randy Peters, the Whirlygigs, the Crumbsuckers, Corrupted Youth, Flesh For Lulu, Agnostic Front and a Rear Garde benefit w/The Darned, Asexuals, Jerry Jerry, My Dog Popper, Failsafe, the Infamous Bustards, Mecca Normal, Flying Leathernecks, Ray Condo, the Hodads and a bunch of forgotten local bands.
In other news Voivod and Corrupted Youth have new albums coming out, CSGR has a new tapedeck (altogether now; ohhhh) and Paul Gott rants about the Grammys.



The CSGR Top 33 Charts;

That Month ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Cancon
1. The Dik Van Dykes ~ Nobody Likes ~ Og! ~ cc

2. Alien Sex Fiend ~ All Our Yesterdays ~ Anagram

3. Dave Howard Singers ~ Yon Yonson ~ Hallelujah ~ cc

4. Various Artists ~ Music From The Armpit ~ Problem Children ~ cc

5. Kali & Dub Inc ~ Uncensored Reggae ~ Boomshot ~ cc

6. Various Artist ~ Hog Butcher For The World ~ Mad Queen

7. Black Flag ~ Wanted Again ~ SST

8. Tragic Mulato ~ Locos por el Sexo ~ Alternative Tentacles

9. The Lemon Heads ~ Hate Your Friends ~ Taang!

10. The Pogues ~ If I Should Fall From Grace ~ MCA

11. Cowboy Junkies ~ The Trinity Sessions ~ Latent ~ cc

12. Roy Buchanan ~ Hot Wires ~ Alligator

13. The Pixies ~ Come On Pilgrim ~ 4AD

14. Two Men Laughing ~ Dead Or Alive ~ Seba ~ cc

15. Various Artists ~ Fear Power God ~ CFN

16. Breaking Circus ~ Smoker's Paradise ~ Homestead

17. Front Line Assembly ~ Initial Command ~ KK ~ cc

18. Various Artists ~ Writing In Stone ~ Rubber Records ~ cc

19. Bunny Wailer ~ Rule Dance Hall ~ Shaniche

20. Bop (Harvey) ~ Nation From Nation ~ Grand Hall

21. Various Artists ~ Flip Side Fanzine 3 ~ Flipside

22. The Sinners ~ Some Enchanted Evening ~ s/r ~ cc

23. Various Artists ~ Potatoes ~ Ralph

24. Les Garcons Boucher ~ Garcons Boucher ~ Boucher

25. Gary Clail ~ Tackhead Sound System ~ Nettwerk

26. Gang Green ~ You Got It ~ Fringe

27. The UK Subs ~ A.W.O.L ~ NRAS

28. Family Plot ~ Convictions FP Music

29. Ludwig Von 88 ~ Le Mission ~ Bondage ~ cc

30. White Noise ~ Heavy Metal ~ Amok ~ cc

31. Chalice ~ Up Till Now ~ RAS

32. The Crumbsuckers ~ Beat On My Back ~ Combat

33. Firehose ~ If'N ~ SST

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Top 5 Cassettes;
No. Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Cancon
1. Various Artists ~ Animals Fight Back ~ s/r ~ cc

2. The Flying Leathernecks ~ Demo ~ S/R ~ cc

3. Mark Sutherford ~ Insects Not Poetry ~ s/r ~ cc

4. Blair Richard Martin ~ Sweet Little Girl ~ s/r ~ cc

5. This New Land ~ Demo ~ s/r ~ cc

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Top 5 Industrial Albums;
No. ~ Artist ~ Title ~ Label ~ cc
1. Einsterzende Neubauten ~ Einsterzende Neubauten ~ Some Bizzare

2. Various Artists ~ Ears To The Ground ~ Gelatinous

3. Controlled Bleeding ~ Core ~ Subterranean

4. Recoil ~ Hydrology ~ Stumm 51

5. Les Mysteres Des Voix ~ Volume 2 ~ HAD ~ cc

NOMEANSNO ~ "MAGIC GUNS";


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