Hey, here's the call for the new issue of front row center + the last issue...Man, you should write for it...:

It's called Front Row Center. It's a hot new zine that's half as wide as a maga-, three times more matte than Sassy and infinitely cheaper. Get on the rickety ship and write for it!

The concept is this: write about music from the first person, experientially, as a fan, as a hater, as someone listening not just at a desk, in front of a computer and because you have to, but because it's actually part of your world.

The form: a small, easy to publish zine made and distributed by me for free - all contributors get copies for themselves and others, and I leave them wherever I may roam. Email me for copies to take to your local friendly record store/bookstore/coffee shop/vegan co-op/pirate cove.

The writing: I'd like to make each issue of FRC an ongoing project, meaning that you can contribute to any and every issue whenever you'd like. If everyone keeps their word counts to around 300, I can just lay out another set of pages. Voila! The zine continues to grow and stay in print. With this neophyte world, however, I hope that you will consider writing for the upcoming issue first.

So: 300 words (plus nom de plume and mailing addy) emailed to pinkgerl@yahoo.com on these topics:

2) Due date 2/14/04 ish…Songs so good/wonderful/inspiring/miserable/etc that you can't listen to them anymore. A song, an artist, a recording, anything musical that has moved you in such a way that it's hard to drop the needle down.

1) already in print/additions…Sympathy for the Devil: the song, the film, the era.

That's the deal. I'm hoping that FRC makes a little community for itself by being somewhere that everyone can just write without thinking about the commercial audience…that all of the formal post-college work world drama can dissolve on backwater pages and just have a friendly chat.