  by (@BHSmithNYC)    Tuner: Talk a little about We Got Power
fanzine and how it started.  Dave Markey: Funny enough a lot of
people don’t have a clue what a fanzine is. It literally means
what it sounds like. You’re a fan. You’re so stoked about music
you’re actually going to be going out and interviewing bands,
reviewing records, taking photographs, doing all this stuff just
for the love of the music. There are still ‘zines around but the
internet has really changed all that. Back in the early ‘80s
there was a national fanzine boom. At the time this music was
not being given much coverage in mainstream publications which
is why the fanzines were so important. The sort of music me and
my friends were into at the time that made us start We Got Power
was hardcore, specifically Southern California, early ‘80s Los
Angeles hardcore, which we got into right as it exploding. It
galvanized us and got us involved in doing things.  We Got Power
had no regular schedule for publishing. Sometimes we put months
and months