Route 96

The cover of the original 1996 zine looked like this. The first page of the original 1996 zine looked like this (links open PDFs).

Hello, Speed Racers! With this issue, King Floyd takes on possibly the second biggest cliche of the zine world: the Great American Road Trip. (Tune in next time, when Floyd reveals, “Hey, alternative rock isn’t really all that alternative any more!”) It’s a big issue: it was a big trip. But there are pictures to [...]

Ten years ago, in the summer of 1996, my friends Pete and Derek and I drove across the USA and back. Actually, that makes the trip sound more linear than it was. Really, we drove around the country, in a big rambling loop. We avoided the interstates whenever possible, taking two-lane highways and seeking out [...]