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'''The Profane Existence Collective''' (referred to occasionally as 'P.E.') is a Minneapolis-based<ref name="star">{{cite news |first= Tony|last= Kennedy |authorlink= |author= |coauthors= |title= Food Co-Ops Thrive, but Stray From Traditionalist Roots |url= |format= |work= Star Tribune|publisher= |id= |pages= |page= |date= 1992-10-28|accessdate= |language= |quote= For example, Wedge Community Food Co-op in south Minneapolis underwent a $1 million expansion this summer...Profane Existence magazine, a publication of the local anarchist community, twice has railed against the co-op in 'Sledge the Wedge' features.|archiveurl= |archivedate= }}</ref> anarcho-punk collective. Established in 1989,<ref name="t92" /> the collective publishes a nationally-known<ref name='cp'>{{cite news | first=Peter S. | last=Scholtes | coauthors= | title=The Rise of Punk Civilization | date=1999-04-07 | publisher= | url =http://www.citypages.com/databank/20/957/article7442.asp | work =City Pages | pages = | accessdate = 2007-08-29 | language = }}</ref> [[punk zine|zine]] (also called ''Profane Existence''), as well as releasing and distributing [[anarcho-punk]], [[crust punk|crust]], and [[grindcore]] music,<ref name='la'>{{cite news | first=Adam | last=Bregman | coauthors= | title=Sledgehammers to the streets: The zine scene | date=1998-02-25 | publisher= | url =http://www.laweekly.com/art+books/books/sledgehammers-to-the-streets/7189/ | work =[[LA Weekly]] | pages = | accessdate = 2007-08-29 | language = }}</ref> and printing and publishing pamphlets and literature.<ref name="t104">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 104</ref><ref name='pioneer1'>{{cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Pop Notes | date=2003-11-28 | publisher= | url =http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PD&s_site=twincities&p_multi=SP&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FF21603677A7808&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM | work =Saint Paul Pioneer Press | pages =E3 | accessdate = 2007-09-08 | quote = TODAY Profane Existence, the Minneapolis-based collective of political punks who make "punk a threat again" with a magazine, publishing company and record label, celebrates 14 years of raising hell at the Triple Rock. }}</ref> Stacy Thompson describes the collective as “the largest, longest-lasting, and most influential collective in Anarcho-Punk so far.”<ref name="t108">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 108</ref> The collective folded in 1998,<ref name="t105">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 105</ref><ref name="bye">The collective's October 1998 announcement that it would "cease operations" can be read [https://www.profaneexistence.com/PE=Kaput.html here]</ref> although its distribution arm, then called Blackened Distribution, continued operating.<ref name="t186">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 186</ref> It restarted in 2000.<ref name="t92">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 92</ref> "Making punk a threat again" is the group's slogan.
The '''Profane Existence Collective''' (referred to occasionally as 'P.E.') is a Minneapolis-based<ref name="star">{{cite news |first= Tony|last= Kennedy |authorlink= |author= |coauthors= |title= Food Co-Ops Thrive, but Stray From Traditionalist Roots |url= |format= |work= Star Tribune|publisher= |id= |pages= |page= |date= 1992-10-28|accessdate= |language= |quote= For example, Wedge Community Food Co-op in south Minneapolis underwent a $1 million expansion this summer...Profane Existence magazine, a publication of the local anarchist community, twice has railed against the co-op in 'Sledge the Wedge' features.|archiveurl= |archivedate= }}</ref> anarcho-punk collective. Established in 1989,<ref name="t92" /> the collective publishes a nationally-known<ref name='cp'>{{cite news | first=Peter S. | last=Scholtes | coauthors= | title=The Rise of Punk Civilization | date=1999-04-07 | publisher= | url =http://www.citypages.com/databank/20/957/article7442.asp | work =City Pages | pages = | accessdate = 2007-08-29 | language = }}</ref> [[punk zine|zine]] (also called ''Profane Existence''), as well as releasing and distributing [[anarcho-punk]], [[crust punk|crust]], and [[grindcore]] music,<ref name='la'>{{cite news | first=Adam | last=Bregman | coauthors= | title=Sledgehammers to the streets: The zine scene | date=1998-02-25 | publisher= | url =http://www.laweekly.com/art+books/books/sledgehammers-to-the-streets/7189/ | work =[[LA Weekly]] | pages = | accessdate = 2007-08-29 | language = }}</ref> and printing and publishing pamphlets and literature.<ref name="t104">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 104</ref><ref name='pioneer1'>{{cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Pop Notes | date=2003-11-28 | publisher= | url =http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PD&s_site=twincities&p_multi=SP&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FF21603677A7808&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM | work =Saint Paul Pioneer Press | pages =E3 | accessdate = 2007-09-08 | quote = TODAY Profane Existence, the Minneapolis-based collective of political punks who make "punk a threat again" with a magazine, publishing company and record label, celebrates 14 years of raising hell at the Triple Rock. }}</ref> Stacy Thompson describes the collective as “the largest, longest-lasting, and most influential collective in Anarcho-Punk so far.”<ref name="t108">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 108</ref> The collective folded in 1998,<ref name="t105">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 105</ref><ref name="bye">The collective's October 1998 announcement that it would "cease operations" can be read [https://www.profaneexistence.com/PE=Kaput.html here]</ref> although its distribution arm, then called Blackened Distribution, continued operating.<ref name="t186">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 186</ref> It restarted in 2000.<ref name="t92">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 92</ref> "Making punk a threat again" is the group's slogan.


==History==
==History==
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Launched in 1989,<ref name="t97">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 97</ref> the Profane Existence magazine has been described as "the largest of the anarchist Punk fanzines in North America."<ref name='o'hara'>{{Cite book| last = O'Hara | first = Craig | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise | publisher = [[AK Press]] | year = 1999 | location = Edinburgh | pages = 71 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 1-873176-16-3 9781873176160 }}</ref> The magazine deals with a very broad range of topics,<ref name="t95">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 95</ref> including veganism, animal, women's and minority rights, anti-fascist action and the punk lifestyle. It publishes feature articles, interviews, reports on local scenes around the world, editorials, letters, "how-to" articles, and so on.<ref name="la" /><ref name="t106">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 106</ref> Thompson writes that the zine “functions as [a newspaper] for many Anarcho-Punks, especially those in the [[Twin Cities]] area."<ref name="t94">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 94</ref> Until it ceased publication in 1998 ''Profane Existence'' was free in the Twin Cities and cost $1–3 elsewhere; then as now customers who order the zine through the mail are only charged for shipping.<ref name="t108" /> The zine was initially published in a black and white [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]] format.<ref name="t94" /> It switched to an 8½ x 11” magazine format with issue #23 (Autumn 1994) but returned to a tabloid format (now with color front and back covers) with issue #38 (Spring 2000).<ref name="t94" />
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Launched in 1989,<ref name="t97">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 97</ref> the ''Profane Existence'' magazine has been described as "the largest of the anarchist Punk fanzines in North America."<ref name='o'hara'>{{Cite book| last = O'Hara | first = Craig | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise | publisher = [[AK Press]] | year = 1999 | location = Edinburgh | pages = 71 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 1-873176-16-3 9781873176160 }}</ref> The magazine deals with a very broad range of topics,<ref name="t95">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 95</ref> including [[veganism]], [[animal rights|animal]], [[women's rights|women's]] and minority rights, anti-fascist action and the punk lifestyle. It published feature articles, interviews, reports on local scenes around the world, editorials, letters, "how-to" articles, and so on.<ref name="la" /><ref name="t106">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 106</ref> Thompson writes that the zine “functions as [a newspaper] for many Anarcho-Punks, especially those in the [[Twin Cities]] area."<ref name="t94">Thompson, ''Punk Productions'', 94</ref> Until it ceased publication in 1998 ''Profane Existence'' was free in the Twin Cities and cost $1–3 elsewhere; then as now customers who order the zine through the mail are only charged for shipping.<ref name="t108" /> The zine was initially published in a black and white [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]] format.<ref name="t94" /> It switched to an 8½ x 11” magazine format with issue #23 (Autumn 1994) but returned to a tabloid format (now with color front and back covers) with issue #38 (Spring 2000).<ref name="t94" />


In 1992 the group co-published (with ''[[Maximum Rock n Roll]]'') the first edition of ''Book Your Own Fuckin' Life'', a directory (organized by region) of bands, distributors, venues, houses where "touring bands or traveling punks could sleep and sometimes eat for free," etc.--what Thompson describes as a "[[Yellow Pages]] of sorts" for "touring punk bands and punks in general."<ref name="t104"/>
In 1992 the group co-published (with ''[[Maximum Rock n Roll]]'') the first edition of ''Book Your Own Fuckin' Life'', a directory (organized by region) of bands, distributors, venues, houses where "touring bands or traveling punks could sleep and sometimes eat for free," etc.--what Thompson describes as a "[[Yellow Pages]] of sorts" for "touring punk bands and punks in general."<ref name="t104"/>
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The collective is referenced by former Minnesotans [[The Hold Steady]] on their album "[[Separation Sunday]]" in the song "Stevie Nix", which contains the lyrics, "When we hit the [[Minneapolis-St. Paul|Twin Cities]], I didn't know that much about it / I knew [[Mary Tyler Moore]] and I knew Profane Existence."<ref name='holdsteady'>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theholdsteady.com/lyrics.php#SEP6 |title=Stevie Nix |accessdate=2007-08-21 }}</ref><ref name='cpartists'>{{cite journal|title=Artists of the Year: Craig Finn|journal=City Pages|date=2005-12-28|first=Chuck|last=Terhark|coauthors=|volume=26|issue=1308|pages=2|id= |url=http://citypages.com/databank/26/1308/article13990.asp?page=2|format=|accessdate=2007-09-03 }}</ref>
The collective is referenced by former Minnesotans [[The Hold Steady]] on their album "[[Separation Sunday]]" in the song "Stevie Nix", which contains the lyrics, "When we hit the [[Minneapolis-St. Paul|Twin Cities]], I didn't know that much about it / I knew [[Mary Tyler Moore]] and I knew Profane Existence."<ref name='holdsteady'>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theholdsteady.com/lyrics.php#SEP6 |title=Stevie Nix |accessdate=2007-08-21 }}</ref><ref name='cpartists'>{{cite journal|title=Artists of the Year: Craig Finn|journal=City Pages|date=2005-12-28|first=Chuck|last=Terhark|coauthors=|volume=26|issue=1308|pages=2|id= |url=http://citypages.com/databank/26/1308/article13990.asp?page=2|format=|accessdate=2007-09-03 }}</ref>


==Profane Existence Magazine Featured Artists==
===''Profane Existence'' featured artists===


Profane Existence Magazine has regularly featured some of the most prominent punk visual artists in underground punk culture. The featured artists are known for illustrating punk album covers, magazines, showing their work in galleries or for their work as activists.
''Profane Existence'' has regularly featured some of the most prominent punk visual artists in underground punk culture. The featured artists are known for illustrating punk album covers, magazines, showing their work in galleries or for their work as activists.


#58- “Hush” a.k.a. Jeremy Clark, best known for illustrating ''[[Slug and Lettuce (fanzine)|Slug and Lettuce]]''.
#58- “Hush” a.k.a. Jeremy Clark, best known for illustrating ''[[Slug and Lettuce (fanzine)|Slug and Lettuce]]''.
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.profaneexistence.com/ Official site]
*[http://profaneexistence.org/ Official site]
*[http://www.profaneexistence.com/threats.htm Profane Existence's own description of itself]
*[http://www.profaneexistence.com/threats.htm Profane Existence's own description of itself]
*[http://zinewiki.com/index.php?title=Profane_Existence Profane Existence on ZineWiki]
*[http://zinewiki.com/index.php?title=Profane_Existence Profane Existence on ZineWiki]

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Profance Existence
Founded1989 Minneapolis, USA
GenreCrust, punk, hardcore, anarcho-punk, stoner metal, doom metal, sludge metal, black metal
Country of originUS
LocationMinneapolis
Official websiteprofaneexistence.org

The Profane Existence Collective (referred to occasionally as 'P.E.') is a Minneapolis-based[1] anarcho-punk collective. Established in 1989,[2] the collective publishes a nationally-known[3] zine (also called Profane Existence), as well as releasing and distributing anarcho-punk, crust, and grindcore music,[4] and printing and publishing pamphlets and literature.[5][6] Stacy Thompson describes the collective as “the largest, longest-lasting, and most influential collective in Anarcho-Punk so far.”[7] The collective folded in 1998,[8][9] although its distribution arm, then called Blackened Distribution, continued operating.[10] It restarted in 2000.[2] "Making punk a threat again" is the group's slogan.

History

Profane Existence
PublisherProfane Existence Collective
First issue1989
Final issue1998
Based inMinneapolis, Minnesota
Websiteprofaneexistence.org/magazine/
OCLC23072105

Launched in 1989,[11] the Profane Existence magazine has been described as "the largest of the anarchist Punk fanzines in North America."[12] The magazine deals with a very broad range of topics,[13] including veganism, animal, women's and minority rights, anti-fascist action and the punk lifestyle. It published feature articles, interviews, reports on local scenes around the world, editorials, letters, "how-to" articles, and so on.[4][14] Thompson writes that the zine “functions as [a newspaper] for many Anarcho-Punks, especially those in the Twin Cities area."[15] Until it ceased publication in 1998 Profane Existence was free in the Twin Cities and cost $1–3 elsewhere; then as now customers who order the zine through the mail are only charged for shipping.[7] The zine was initially published in a black and white tabloid format.[15] It switched to an 8½ x 11” magazine format with issue #23 (Autumn 1994) but returned to a tabloid format (now with color front and back covers) with issue #38 (Spring 2000).[15]

In 1992 the group co-published (with Maximum Rock n Roll) the first edition of Book Your Own Fuckin' Life, a directory (organized by region) of bands, distributors, venues, houses where "touring bands or traveling punks could sleep and sometimes eat for free," etc.--what Thompson describes as a "Yellow Pages of sorts" for "touring punk bands and punks in general."[5]

Profane Existence Records, the collective’s record label, was also founded in 1989.[11] One of the label's first releases was "Extinction," the seminal New York City crust punk band Nausea's only full-length album, which John Griffin describes as "as important to the punks of the '90s as The Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks was to the punks of the late '70s."[16] Another notable early release was Asbestosdeath's second 7", "Dejection"; Asbestosdeath's members went on to form the metal bands Sleep, High on Fire, and Om. Throughout the early and mid-1990s, Profane Existence released or distributed records by many other crust bands, including Doom, Misery, Fleas and Lice, Anarcrust, Counterblast, Dirt, and Hellbastard.[11] Thompson writes that the label “became ground zero for [the crust] movement” and that the aesthetic of second-wave (i.e., beginning in the late 1980s) anarcho-punk “is currently exemplified by the bands released” on the label.[11] More recently, the label has released music by bands like Behind Enemy Lines,[17] MURDER DISCO X, Iskra, and The Cooters.[18] In 2009 they hosted independent crust radio shows, Scairt Radio, Doomed Society, Organize and Arise and others. This finished in 2012, where the magazine became an online magazine.

The collective is referenced by former Minnesotans The Hold Steady on their album "Separation Sunday" in the song "Stevie Nix", which contains the lyrics, "When we hit the Twin Cities, I didn't know that much about it / I knew Mary Tyler Moore and I knew Profane Existence."[19][20]

Profane Existence featured artists

Profane Existence has regularly featured some of the most prominent punk visual artists in underground punk culture. The featured artists are known for illustrating punk album covers, magazines, showing their work in galleries or for their work as activists.

  1. 58- “Hush” a.k.a. Jeremy Clark, best known for illustrating Slug and Lettuce.
  2. 56 - Amy Toxic (illustrated for Alternative Tentacles, Toxic Narcotic, Caustic Christ, The Boston Phoenix,) Married to a member of Toxic Narcotic.
  3. 55 – Matt Garabedian – (drummer and illustrator for Aus-Rotten and Behind Enemy Lines.)
  4. 54- Fly a New York City artist and activist. (Book “Peops”, illustrating Slug and Lettuce, mural at ABC No Rio.)
  5. 48- “Steve” (From Visions of War, illustrated Profane Existence merchandise)
  6. 47- Kieran Plunkett- (illustrated for UK Subs, The Restarts)
  7. 46 – “Mid” aka Rob Middleton (illustrated for Napalm Death and Extreme Noise Terror)
  8. 45- “Marald” (illustrated for Wartorn, Warcollapse, Imperial Leather, Borndead, State of Fear)

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Kennedy, Tony (1992-10-28). "Food Co-Ops Thrive, but Stray From Traditionalist Roots". Star Tribune. For example, Wedge Community Food Co-op in south Minneapolis underwent a $1 million expansion this summer...Profane Existence magazine, a publication of the local anarchist community, twice has railed against the co-op in 'Sledge the Wedge' features. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ a b Thompson, Punk Productions, 92
  3. ^ Scholtes, Peter S. (1999-04-07). "The Rise of Punk Civilization". City Pages. Retrieved 2007-08-29. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  4. ^ a b Bregman, Adam (1998-02-25). "Sledgehammers to the streets: The zine scene". LA Weekly. Retrieved 2007-08-29. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  5. ^ a b Thompson, Punk Productions, 104
  6. ^ "Pop Notes". Saint Paul Pioneer Press. 2003-11-28. pp. E3. Retrieved 2007-09-08. TODAY Profane Existence, the Minneapolis-based collective of political punks who make "punk a threat again" with a magazine, publishing company and record label, celebrates 14 years of raising hell at the Triple Rock. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  7. ^ a b Thompson, Punk Productions, 108
  8. ^ Thompson, Punk Productions, 105
  9. ^ The collective's October 1998 announcement that it would "cease operations" can be read here
  10. ^ Thompson, Punk Productions, 186
  11. ^ a b c d Thompson, Punk Productions, 97
  12. ^ O'Hara, Craig (1999). The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise. Edinburgh: AK Press. p. 71. ISBN 1-873176-16-3 9781873176160. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  13. ^ Thompson, Punk Productions, 95
  14. ^ Thompson, Punk Productions, 106
  15. ^ a b c Thompson, Punk Productions, 94
  16. ^ Griffin, John. "Extinction: Nausea: Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-09-09.
  17. ^ "PITTSBURGH CALLING A capsule look at Pittsburgh bands making news". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh Post Gazette Publishing Co. 2007-02-01. p. WE. 17.
  18. ^ "Punk Metal: The Cooters". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
  19. ^ "Stevie Nix". Retrieved 2007-08-21.
  20. ^ Terhark, Chuck (2005-12-28). "Artists of the Year: Craig Finn". City Pages. 26 (1308): 2. Retrieved 2007-09-03. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

References

  • Thompson, Stacy (2004). Punk Productions: Unfinished Business. SUNY Press. ISBN 0-7914-6187-4.

External links


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