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From https://theindustryobserver.thebrag.com/book-your-own-fucking-life-the-pre-internet-guide-that-connected-the-indie-scene/ -: " the pre-internet guide that connected the indie scene...Maximum Rock N Roll helped pull together all these threads into a 1992 guide named Book Your Fucking Life – and it changed the entire musical world. The magazine’s manifesto is laid out at the beginning of the guide, and points towards the kind of social networking that now runs rampant. Back then it seemed innocent and filled with possibilities. The burgeoning “DIY movement” is described as vibrant. This guide is filled with hope. “Over these past years the DIY movement has grown at an unprecedented rate, in some cases fueled by profit-making trends, but for the most part on a real grass-roots level. The national and international communication within the DIY movement is what has kept it strong over the years. Through the efforts of certain individual and fanzines, people have been able to make concrete connections between people of similar interests and have created an entire underground economy based on the spreading of our own living culture and ideal. Bands have been able to promote themselves, book tours, put out records without bowing down to the corporate music industry. That is the essence of DIY. People helping other people without an eye for profit, only for creating a better world and having some fun. Networking has played a major role in making all this happen. That is why we present “Book Your Own Fucking Life” for just this tool.' Listings are by city, state, and country and were crowdsourced.

Guide to Chicago that goes deeper than the usual tourist's guidebook

Zine is part of a project that "highlights and activates physical materials found in public libraries." This issue contains photos from the Chicago Reader's touring musician publicity photo collection, along with an interview with Bob Sloane, the librarian in charge of collection development for the Visual and Performing Arts department at Harold Washington Library Center.

Special edition of literary magazine with essays, poems, and short stories from Chicago writers about Chicago.

Collection of short comics. This issue features a modern take on Death of a Salesman with alternate endings and a review from the Chicago Tribune of concerts of Mariah Carey and Britney Spears. It also includes a special edition screen printed cover.

Free comic collection featuring guest writers. Subject matter includes cigarettes, beer, the Vans Warped Tour, et al.

A personal zine about living in Chicago and Punk Rock music. Great for fans of Cometbus!

Mule Magazine is a collection of art, interviews, fiction, music reviews, and cultural commentary.

This issue of Roctober is dedicated to TV and Rock n' Roll. The magazine is packed with articles, comics, interviews with musicians, music reviews, and an exhaustive episode guide of VH1 Behind the Music.