La línea del arco 1991–1992

Luis Calvo, who founded the Madrid-based independent record label Elefant Records in 1989, published this densely collaged, saddle-stitched zine from 1990 to 1992. Across its three issues, La línea del arco covered indie pop, rock, and shoegaze, including articles on Strawberry Story, Home and Abroad, Talulah Gosh, My Bloody Valentine, and Elefant’s own Le Mans. Calvo devoted space to fellow indie pop labels as well through coverage, for example, of Lust Recordings of County Durham, Glasgow’s Egg Records, Bristol's Sarah Records, and an article on indie records in Greece. Venturing into fiction, La línea also published Lourdes Bermejo’s short story The Imelda Marcos syndrome as supplements to issues 2 and 3 (included in RAPMM as issue 2–3). Believing that readers should be able to listen to and evaluate the music discussed in the zine themselves, Calvo released a compilation cassette or flexi disc alongside each issue, which contributed to the dissemination of late-1980s and early-1990s indie pop.