Sobriquet 104.1: Links to the Past

May 05, 2023

Sobriquet 104.1: Links to the Past

On May 1, 1995, I brought a pile of photocopied-and-stapled copies Sobriquet Magazine #1 (pictured to the left) to my high school in rural New Jersey, where I sold it to my friends for a dollar. Later that day, I drove to a small record store called Sound Effects Records in Hackettstown and dropped off four copies on consignment. I was delighted when they sold out in under a week. I haven't stopped writing since.

Over the past twenty-eight years, Sobriquet Magazine accompanied me through college, graduate school, and into my career as a college professor. Along the way, this little publication evolved with me and has broadened its focus from a teenager's favorite musical subculture to literature, politics, and a range of other topics. Still, Sobriquet remains a punk rock zine at heart, so when The Great Webhost Apocalypse of 2023 smote this website earlier this year, that now-adult punk rock kid was determined to ensure all those record reviews he'd written over the years would get back online.

And they did make it back online. However, thanks to a switch from using subfolders on the previous website to the use of subdomains here, the Internet is littered with dead links to those reviews and, for whatever reason, the current pages are not showing up in many searches. In an effort to bring those apparently hidden pages back into the light, I thought it would be a good idea to link to them from the main site.

What you will find here, then, is an alphabetized list of all the record reviews published in Sobriquet Magazine over the years. It is my hope to publish some new ones, too, and I will share any links to those from the main site upon publication.

Thanks for reading!

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