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For more than a decade, '''Freak Tension''' [[zine]] has popped up sporadically around the country, usually at shows or record shops in Wisconsin and Minnesota, where it is based. It focuses on music reviews and horror stories.
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Freak Tension is one of the longest running zines in the Midwest. Originally based in Wisconsin and currently based in Minnesota, the first issue appeared in December of 1998. It is published sporadically and is currently up to issue 14.
  
Instead of including boring reviews about how pop band A sounds exactly like pop punk band B, author [[MP Johnson]] prefers to write about how pop punk band B would sound if they were produced by a pack of banana-hungry monkeys, rather than the inept troll they decided to work with.  
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Created by author [[MP Johnson]], Freak Tension's primary feature is music reviews. It has received positive write-ups in [[Maximum Rock 'N' Roll]] and [[Flipside]] for reviews that mock bands, contain elaborate metaphors or take tangents that are never returned from. These reviews appear side by side with random, comedic observations and true stories. Each issue features a piece of horror fiction. Some feature bizarre games.
  
The horror stories tend to feature punks or weirdos doing battle with zombies, werewolves, killer eyeballs or other mutants.
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Freak Tension interview subjects have included bands as diverse as the Varukers, H2O, Shelter, the Groovie Ghoulies, John Doe and the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.
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Freak Tension covers typically feature crude drawings of monsters and mutants by author MP Johnson. Some, including the current issue, feature art by Bill Hauser, whose work has also graced covers and T-shirts by Hirax, Ozzy Osbourne and more.
  
 
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Revision as of 21:37, 18 August 2012

Freak Tension is one of the longest running zines in the Midwest. Originally based in Wisconsin and currently based in Minnesota, the first issue appeared in December of 1998. It is published sporadically and is currently up to issue 14.

Created by author MP Johnson, Freak Tension's primary feature is music reviews. It has received positive write-ups in Maximum Rock 'N' Roll and Flipside for reviews that mock bands, contain elaborate metaphors or take tangents that are never returned from. These reviews appear side by side with random, comedic observations and true stories. Each issue features a piece of horror fiction. Some feature bizarre games.

Freak Tension interview subjects have included bands as diverse as the Varukers, H2O, Shelter, the Groovie Ghoulies, John Doe and the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.

Freak Tension covers typically feature crude drawings of monsters and mutants by author MP Johnson. Some, including the current issue, feature art by Bill Hauser, whose work has also graced covers and T-shirts by Hirax, Ozzy Osbourne and more.

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