Throwback Thursday Retro Zines; Rear Garde June 1988

Rear Garde Magazine June 1988;

In this issue of the Montreal Music Mag; interviews with The UK Subs, Henry Rollins, Ray Condo, GG Allin, The Infamous Basturds, Talk Shop, Absolute Whores, The Honeymoon Killers and Big Daddy

Record reviews of the Razorbacks, Death Sentence, Deja Voodoo, Ludwig Von 88, Ten Commandments, Del Lords, Firehose, Didjits, Divinyls, Raunchettes, Sonic Youth, Cowboy Junkies, Dissidenten, Frank Zappa, Sugarcubes, MDC, Butthole Surfers, Sex Pistols, Wire, Karen Finley, Dickies, Lillian Allen, Dickies, Randy Travis, Shadowy Men, Royal Nonesuch, Mystic Eyes, Drums Along The Gardiner, The Brood, Fred Eaglesmith, No Means No, Dayglo Abortions.

THE UK SUBS ~ "C.I.D";


Concert reviews of The Nils, The Mission, Rheostatics and the Rear Garde Benefit w/The Infamous Basturds, My Dog Popper, Fail-Safe, The Asexuals, The Darned, The Hodads, and Jerry Jerry.

Appearing in town that month; Depeche Mode, Dead Milkman, Jazz Butcher, Bowser & Blue, Sons Of The Desert, Elan, Big Pig, The Three O'Cock Train, The Stand, Chinese Backwards, Hodads, Elan, The Hex, The Darned, Paul James, Alex Chilton, The Nils & EJ Brule, Kitten With A Whip & Deadlines, Tragically Hip & One Free Fall, Clannad, Def Leppard, Eugene Ripper & The North, The Church, Celine Dion, 54-40, John Cougar Mellencamp, Cowboy Junkies, Sidewinders, Tackhead, Pogues, Bobs Your Uncle and Crosby, Stills Nash & Young w/Bruce Cockburn.

THE NILS ~ "FREEDOM";


In other news; new releases coming from Voivod, the Gruesomes, Shadowy Men, Dik Van Dykes, No Means No and My Dog Popper are going on tour, various members of Fail-Safe and Three O'Cock Train are having babies (but not with each other), two members of My Dog Popper are getting married (to each other) as was a member of Chinese Backwards, lineup changes in the American Devices, Hodads, Jerry Jerry & His Sons Of Rythmn and "Krak" a rival music mag put out by CKUT ceases operations.



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CRSG Top 33;
Number ~ Artist ~ Album ~ Label ~ Cancon

1. Various Artists ~ It Came From Canada Vol.4 ~ Og! ~ cc

2. Sonic Youth ~ Master Dik ~ SST

3. Dayglo Abortions ~ Here Today Guano Tomorrow ~ Fringe ~ cc

4. The Butthole Surfers ~ Hairway To Steven ~ Touch & Go

5. Jello Biafra ~ No More Cocoons ~ Alternative Tentacles

6. No Means No ~ The Day Everything Became Nothing ~ Alternative Tentacles ~ cc

7. The Pogues ~ If I Should Fall From Grace From God ~ WEA 8. The Dik Van Dykes ~ Nobody Likes ~ Og! ~ cc

9. Various Artists ~ Sgt Pepper Tribute ~ NME

10. Ludwig Von 88 ~ La Mission ~ Bondage

11. Wire ~ Kidney Bingos ~ Mute

12. Alien Sex Fiend ~ All Our Yesterdays ~ Anagram

13. The Sugarcubes ~ Deus ~ WEA

14. Various Artists ~ The Word ~ BMG

15. Failsafe ~ Demo ~ s/r ~ cc

16. The Band Of Susans ~ Hope Against ~ Blast First

17. Parabellum ~ ? ~ Bondage

18. Eisnterzende Nuebautten ~ Funf ~ Some Bizarre

19. Deja Voodoo ~ Big Pile Of Mud ~ Og! ~ cc

20. Honeymoon In Red ~ 12in Single ~ Widowspeak

21. Nips & Nipples ~ Bops, Babes, Booze & Bower ~ Big Beat

22. Talk Shop ~ Demo ~ s/r ~ cc

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

24. Various Artists ~ Poatoes ~ Ralph

25. Bunny Wailer ~ Rude Dance Hall ~ Shanichie

26. Family Plot ~ Convictions ~ FP Music ~ cc

27. The Razorbacks ~ Go To Town ~ OPM ~ cc

28. Jandek ~ You Walk Alone ~ Corwood

29. Various Artists ~ Hog Butcher To The World ~ Mad Queen

30. Dissection ~ Final Genocide ~ Fringe ~ cc

31. Upangybottom ~ Upangymania ~ Fuzzy Tongue ~ cc

32. Agnostic Front ~ Liberty & Justice ~ Combat

33. The Forgotten Rebels ~ Surfin On Heroin ~ Enigma ~ cc

34. Death Sentence ~ Stop Killing Me ~ Fringe ~ cc

35. The Del Lords ~ Based On A True Story ~ Enigma

36. The Didjits ~ Hey Judester ~ Touch & Go

37. MDC ~ This Blood's For You ~

38. Gary Clail ~ Tackhead Sound System ~ Nettwork ~ cc

THE HONEYMOON KILLERS;