denim delinquent

denim delinquent

denim delinquent No. 5
Editor Jymn Parrett
Categories Music Magazine
Frequency Annual
First issue 1971
Final issue 1976
Country Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Language English

denim delinquent was an influential underground fanzine of seven issues in total, published from 1971 to 1976. It was the first rock and roll fanzine to come out of Canada. The zine began as a launching pad for the writing of Jymn Parrett and Mark Jones in Ottawa, Ontario.

After the first two Ottawa-based issues, subsequent denim delinquents were published out of Los Angeles by Jymn and Dee Parrett. The content of these issues included articles about music groups playing the Sunset Strip, including the Whisky a Go Go.

Contributors included Lester Bangs, Jeremy Gluck (later of The Barracudas), Danny Sugerman, Jeffrey Morgan AKA Machine Rock (Creem). Interviews and features spanned such groups as:

Original issues of denim delinquent sell for over $300 on eBay. An anthology will be published summer of 2015 by the book division of HoZac Records.

For many years after the demise of denim delinquent, Jymn Parrett continued to write for various Canadian music magazines, including Cheap Thrills, Stagelife, Roxy and more recently, "Ugly Things."

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