The Profane Existence Collective (referred to occasionally as ‘P.E.’) is a Minneapolis-based Anarcho-Punk collective. Established in 1989, the collective publishes a nationally-known zine (also called “Profane Existence”), as well as releasing and distributing anarcho-punk, crust, and grindcore music, and printing and publishing pamphlets and literature.Thompson, Punk Productions, 104 Stacy Thompson describes the collective as “the largest, longest-lasting, and most influential collective in Anarcho-Punk so far.”Thompson, Punk Productions, 108 The collective folded in 1998,Thompson, Punk Productions, 105The collective’s October 1998 announcement that it would “cease operations” can be read here although its distribution arm, then called Blackened Distribution, continued operating.Thompson, Punk Productions, 186 It restarted in 2000.Thompson, Punk Productions, 92
Launched in 1989,Thompson, Punk Productions, 97 the Profane Existence magazine has been described as “the largest of the anarchist Punk fanzines in North America.” The magazine deals with a very broad range of topics,Thompson, Punk Productions, 95 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. Thompson, Punk Productions, 106 Thompson writes that the zine “functions as [a newspaper] for many Anarcho-Punks, especially those in the Twin Cities area.”Thompson, Punk Productions, 94 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. The zine was initially published in a black and white tabloid format. It switched to an 81/2 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).
Profane Existence Records, the collective’s record label, was also founded in 1989. 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.” Throughout the early and mid 1990s Profane Existence released and/or distributed records by many other crust bands, including Doom, Misery, Fleas and Lice, Anarcrust, Counterblast, Dirt, and Hellbastard. 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. More recently, the label has released music by bands like Behind Enemy Lines,, MURDER DISCO X, Iskra, and The Cooters.
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”.
See also
- Profane Existence discography
- Minneapolis hardcore
Footnotes
References
- Thompson, Stacy (2004). Punk Productions: Unfinished Business. SUNY Press. ISBN 0791461874.
External links
- Official site
- Profane Existence on ZineWiki
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