Do you have 5 minutes or less of audio as an .mp3 file? Do you want it on a 7" record? Come cut your own record & design your album cover!

Do you have 5 minutes or less of audio as an .mp3 file? Do you want it on a 7" record? Come cut your own record & design your album cover!

Consonant Collective is partnering with MovieJawn to celebrate the release of both the magazine’s fall issue and Joe’s new book! Come hang out with us at Monster Vegan, mingle with your fellow film nerds at the mixer, and stay for a free screening of cult classic, Phantom of The Paradise (1974).

At the event you will be able to buy a copy of MovieJawn’s Fall 2025 issue and the limited-run vinyl record, cut by Consonant Collective and featuring the music of lauren.napier and Draculelvis & The Jailbird Joeys, that accompanies it, as well as Joe’s new book, Queer Horror: Fun and Freaky Perspectives on Macabre Media!

The mixer starts at noon and the film screens at 1:30. The event is free and you don’t need a ticket to enter the restaurant, but to watch the film you do need to register on EventBrite. We’ll be at Monster Vegan hanging out and selling merch until 4:30.

The East Falls Zine Reading Room is doing a pop-up at the Falls of Schuylkill Library! We’ll pack up our vintage library cart with a nice big selection of zines from our collection and sit with them from 1–4 on Saturday, April 16 1–4 on Saturday, May 10. Come read and chat about zines with us!

The Consonant Collective will lead a class of poetry students through the process of putting their own recordings onto vinyl records using a refurbished ~1947 Rek-O-Kut Challenger record maker. We will first talk about the science behind vinyl records, from audio recording to vinyl pressing, and then each student will record their poetry to a 7” disc.

As part of our residency at Cloud Croft Studio, Joe and Katie will give a talk on our work and the creative process behind zine, book, and record making.

Bring a digital recording or come prepared to talk or make music live, and we will cut your performance onto a vinyl record!

We will do a presentation with our Rek-o-Cut Challenger at Athenaeum of Philadelphia. First we’ll discuss the science behind how sound is transferred to vinyl records, then each participant will get to cut their own record! Sign up on the Athenaeum website. Registration capped at 12 participants.

Philly writer Katie Haegele has been putting out the beloved Cat Party! zine series for 7 years — and now it’s turned into a book! This diverse, lively anthology, published by Microcosm Publishing, collects every issue of the zine plus brand new contributions made especially for the book. More than 50 artists contributed essays, comics, portraits, song lyrics, and photos, all about the beloved cats in their lives, and the pieces range from heartbreakingly personal to totally whimsical (and everything in between). 

Come celebrate the release of this beautiful book! You’ll be able to buy your copy before it’s available in stores, get yourself some cat-themed merch (including records with original music by contributor Joe Carlough!), and hang out while enjoying our catty playlist. It’s gonna be a blast! 

Registere here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cat-party-book-release-party-tickets-866855657607?aff

Stop by anytime between 1—4pm to browse our zine collection and have nice chats. Message us for the address.

The Consonant Collective will have a table at Princeton Zine Fest, which is being held at Princeton’s public library as a part of New Jersey Makers Day. Come check it out!

As part Fair Use Week, we will lead a workshop at Swarthmore College on the subject of zine creation in the context of fair use in the arts.

We open our collection of more than 1,500 zines on the third Sunday of every month. Stop by any time between 1—4 to research a topic or do a little browsing. Message us for the address.

If you live in East Falls, tune into AM station 1270 at 5pm every Saturday to catch The Witching Hour. Listen as Katie leads you in a spell or a guided visualization and plays original music.

If you live in East Falls, tune into AM station 1270 at 5pm every Saturday to catch The Witching Hour. Listen as Katie conducts a spell or a guided visualization, then DJs or plays original music.

If you live in East Falls, tune into AM station 1270 at 5pm every Saturday to catch The Witching Hour. Listen as Katie conducts a spell or a guided visualization, then DJs or plays original music.

If you live in East Falls, tune into AM station 1270 at 5pm every Saturday to catch The Witching Hour. Listen as Katie conducts a spell or a guided visualization, then DJs or plays original music.

We're opening the space from 12:00 - 3:00 on Saturday, September 3, and we invite you to come browse the zine collection. We've also got a copy of the super cute zine-themed card game The Zine Game by Billy McCall, so we'll get that out for anyone who wants to play. We'll serve coffee and tea, too.

Message us for the address.