If House O’ Pain wasn’t Nashville’s first ‘punkzine’, well, it was certainly the Music City’s best and most widely-distributing. Published by Donnie and April Kendall and friends – who also promoted the trailblazing “Migraine Matinee” shows at local clubs, bringing invaluable experience and exposure to Nashville’s rock underground – House O’ Pain expanded into a record label, releasing a number of great singles throughout the 1990s.
I long ago donated my copies of House O’ Pain to the music archives at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, one of the largest such collections in the world. But I kept scanned copies of a number of issues, enough to take a look back at the zine with this photo gallery…
