Chunklet (magazine)

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Chunklet
Publisher	Henry Owings
Categories	Music, culture
Frequency	Irregular
First issue	1993
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	www.chunklet.com

Chunklet is an American music and culture magazine edited and published by Henry Owings. According to Pitchfork Media, issue #16 has sold more than 10,000 copies.^[1] The magazine is headquartered in Athens, Georgia.^[2]

1 History
2 Style
3 Writers
4 References

[edit] History

Chunklet began as a photocopied zine-style journal, after a 3,000-word article on fellow Athens residents Olivia Tremor Control was cut to ten percent of its length by Owings' former employer, Flagpole.^[3] Issue #9 was the first to have been properly printed. In June of 2001 the magazine was featured in Entertainment Weekly's It List.^[4]

[edit] Style

Chunklet is written in an uncompromisingly opinionated manner. Even bands and personalities that are liked by the staff receive occasional jabs and disparaging comments. In its "Overrated" issues Chunklet stated that its main dislike is "taking things too seriously," and most of the writers attacks are against forms of pretentiousness, conformity, and lack of integrity and creativity. Recent examples of this attitude include issue #16, The Shit List, "dedicated to the worst bands [Chunklet had] ever seen perform live," issues #18-19, The Overrated Issue parts one and two, and issue #15, The 100 Biggest Assholes in Rock (which placed owner Henry Owings at #32).^[5] In a very unusual departure for music periodicals, the magazine does not review albums. Instead, most of the magazine in made up of interviews, essays, and comedy bits. Characteristically, there's no set release schedule--the next issue is eternally due "as soon as [Owings] can get it together."^[3]

Due to most of its staff being based in the Atlanta area, the magazine also features many esoteric local references to Georgia and the entire South.

[edit] Writers

Chunklet is written by loose collective of musicians, comedians, journalists, and Henry Owings' family and friends. In recent issues, the distinct majority of the magazine has been written by Owings and Man or Astro-man? drummer Brian Teasley, enough that Teasley is usually referred to as head writer, though not officially so.

Frequent Contributors include: