Cimexleaks: Photo Dump
I previously posted that I would soon publish a Wikileaks style cache of Anti-Cimex photos sourced from an anonymous operative. Here it is!1. This one you may have already seen. Recently revealed data...
View ArticleAndra Takter: Sixten of Anti-Cimex on film
An archival discovery set the internet ablaze in the last couple days. E-mails have been shooting around the globe, followed by eager posts on message boards and blogs. Everyone is so excited about a...
View ArticleBefore Anti-Cimex: Kloak, Avfall, Bombhot, Bohmann Brinner
Serious fans of Skitslickers and Anti-Cimex may already know that there were at least four bands that included Tomas Jonsson before the classic bands were formed. These bands were Kloak, Bombhot,...
View ArticleInternational Jailbreakers
A few Cimex collectorscenti have been sending e-mails back and forth lately trying to confirm—but really propagating—the rumor of the existence of a band from Göteborg in the early 1980s called...
View ArticleCimexleaks: The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth
This is the third installment of Cimexleaks. Check the previous ones here and here.read more
View Article"Raped Ass" test pressing (take 3)
Here is another post about a test pressing of "Raped Ass." The previous ones are here and here. Obviously, this archive could easily degenerate into a collectorsfrenzy style log of highly priced...
View ArticleLovely Downtown Göteborg
Here's a great photo of three punks hanging out in the Haga neighborhood in Göteborg, circa 1983. Notice the poster hanging in the window.read more
View ArticleAnti-Cimex in the MRR photo archives
Maximum Rocknroll has been posting some awesome stuff on their website lately to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the magazine. For example, you can download pdfs of some early issues, and there are...
View ArticleAnti-Cimex "Bootleg Live!" Flyer
A buddy of mine just acquired a copy of "Raped Ass" pressed on clear vinyl, with the two-piece R. Cobb sleeve (see here). It includes an advert flyer I've never before seen. The flyer is for a...
View ArticleThe Syndicalist Printshop, Anti-Cimex posters, and the Really Fast Sleeve...
One of the most memorable aspects of Anti-Cimex's oeuvre is the artwork for the 2nd and 3rd EPs. They are iconic. As a teenage punker in the 90s, long before I had heard the music, I knew the sleeves....
View ArticleThe Greatest Flyer of All Time
Here is the greatest flyer of all time, for what was the greatest gig of all time. Thanks to Tony, who reports: "This photo was taken by my friend Masken at Jonsson's house yesterday. This was...
View ArticleAnti-Cimex 3-song Video
A previously unknown (to me, at least) video of Anti-Cimex has surfaced on YouTube. Check it out here. As videos have a tendency to disappear, get your views in now. Otherwise, we may end up with dead...
View ArticleThe Shitlickers 1997 World Tour
Well, this is hilarious.Tom of General Speech wrote with some fascinating findings, thanks to, uh, nutso googling skills.In a 1997 alt.punk usenet posting (if you don't know what that means,...
View ArticleBohman Brinner Recordings Unearthed!
A few years ago, when I posted about the pre–Anti-Cimex bands Kloak, Bombhot, Avfall, and Bohman Brinner, one of the things I said was that no Bohman Brinner recordings or photos seemed to be extant....
View ArticleSkitslickers Gig Review
Over at the Victims of a Bombraid blog, our main man Masken has posted a review of a Skitslickers gig that originally appeared in the Swedish fanzine Blaskan. The gig was on January 30, 1982, at a...
View Article"Fanx—Live 83" Compilation Cassette, featuring Anti-Cimex
Old news to some, perhaps: on the awesome Swedish Punk Fanzines blog, there is a post of the "Fanx—Live 83" cassette, released by Really Fast. (The site has done an excellent interview with Patrik from...
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