It's 2006 and it has been quite a long time since the last issue of The Brains Never Stop, but guess what! Issue #4 The Family Issue is under way! We even have an interview with no other than Daniel Smith of Brother Danielson, The Danielson Family, producer of Sufjan Stevens, and man behind Sounds Familyre Records!

We also have more fun news for you! For our Random Reviews section, this issue we are asking our readers and friends to mail us somthing family related for review. This can be anyhing from your brother's sock your mom's doodles, to found photos of someone else's family. Whatever it is, we'll review it! In exchange for your mail, we will mail you a free copy of the family issue with the review of your item in there! Feel free to send along a description of the item if it is of special signifigance, or just send it as is and leave us guessing!

We are also open to reviewing non-family related items, as usual, such as zines or albums, or things you have made.
Send your review items to:
In Canada:
TBNS c/o M. Coles
3420 W. 7th Ave
Vancouver BC
V6R 1w1
In USA:
TBNS c/o M. Coles
Po Box 2028
Oroville, WA
98844

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Love, Emily & Melanie

February 2004
250 Printed
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Each of the girls worked quite a bit on their own for this issue, as they had moved to seperate cities for college. This zine is thinner than their previous zines, but with a lot more attention to deatil. If you look closley, the girls hid Waldo from Where's Waldo, somewhere in this issue, as well as a hidden band interview! Another feature is an interview with a pop-up ad in which Melanie pretended to be interested in a tae bo video set in order to put the person on the other end of the pop up ad in witty situations. Also is an interview with the band The Love Cannons, A recipe for deep fried brains (actually found by the girls in a cookbook!), a Match The Song Name to the Genre game, and ironic haikus by their good friends the Martiniuk Twins. The girls added to their inticate layouts by attatching fabric and wall paper swatched, by hand to each zine, and by laminating each cover with wood-grain laminate and mounting a fish on top to make each copy of this zine slightly different than the one before or after it.

November 2002
300 Printed
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With the excitement of having their first activity fanzine printed, distibuted and loved , the girls (E. Toth & M. Coles) got right onto making their next zine, 'The Operation Issue'. This issue sticks very closley to the girls chosen theme, by featuring the bands Timmy's Operation (California) and Operation Makeout (Canada , Mint Records), as well as having articles such as X Ray Phantasmagoria!, Naomi's Brain Test and Talking to the Operator. The activities in this issue are how to make hats that look like brains and how to make skull and crossbone garlands (much like the paper doll method). Two hilarious poems about fictional medical situations were written by friends and twins Tim and Jay Martiniuk, who are frequent contriters to TBNS. Music and Zine Reviews in the back, followed by a hilariously (and fictionally) completed set of questionaires asking "When do you like to read The Brains Never Stop?" With an extremly intricate layout (the font for the Operation Makeout interview was created by photocopying a spider that walked across their table, then cutting up the photocopied limbs to make leters) this zine shows a huge artist progression since the 'Premiere Issue'

November 2003
40 printed

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This zine was made right before the printing of The Operation Issue. It was the Operation Issue's experimental little sister. This entire 25 page mini was made using only the word 'brain' and one select image of a brain (as seen on the cover) manipulated by the photocopier in many various ways. One page is a drawing of the Mona Lisa, made by Emily Toth, where the image was painstakenly drawn on the typewriter using the word "brains" over and over again. The center fold was left deliberatley white to trivialize traditional publishing methods, and because the girls thought it would be quite humourous, to utilize the centerfold so anti-clamatically. The majority of these zines were mailed off, tucked inside the Operation Issue at special request, but a few copies never got sent off and can be purchased here only. They are cute and pink and full of brains!

August 2002
400 printed
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The first of an ongoing series of activity fanzines created with best friend Emily Toth. Published from the small town of Oliver, BC, by the two girls of age sixteen. This zine features interviews with well known bands, as well as Elivis impersonators and the two fruit pickers in Emily's orchard. It has zine, music, and popsicle reviews as well as reviews by a nine year old little brother. The girls utilized a classic cut and paste style, with a real down to earth, labour of love feel. The great sucess and reception of this zine had the girls hooked and they are still making zines under the same name, 4 years later.

A review of this zine by Bull Sheet Zine:

Wrapped in a bright green cover is the cut and paste greatness of the Brains Never Stop zine. A collaborative effort between two best friends, Melanie and Emily both of the small town of Oliver, BC, this is a wonderful first zine for the two and reminds me of the passion and energy of my first zine, but with much better content. This issue has interviews with Hot Hot Heat, The Casualties, Further Seems Forever and the Aefect in which the questions are pulled out of a hat. There is a fun filled activity section that features crowd favorites such as the Ad Lib musicreview and "cut and paste a genre" (mine was "post ambiance chaotic indie reggae" don't get any ideas) which poke fun at the zine world oh so well. Other features include interviews with Elvis impersonators and French Fruit pickers, various reviews and a Billy Idol show review. A very interesting piece was "Elton John- living proof that punks not dead" which takes a raving bio of the Ramones and inserts Sir Johns name into every mention of the Ramones and Eltons song titles into the names of the Ramones three chord masterpieces. All of this is lovingly laid out with the old scissors, glue and typewriter method in an eye pleasing manner. After enjoying this zine, I can only wonder and anticipate what the future will hold for these incredibly talented young women and their zine.'