magazines that are good
 

Are there any music magazines that are good? My girlfriend always gets blender, and I tried to like it, but it just seems like shit. Like it's got the ocdcasional alright thing, and then pages and pages about shit like beyonce and arctic monkeys.

But I would really like to be exposed to new awesome things, and I might even like to do that in a convenient magazine form.

I want a magazine that will introduce me to giant drag and not tell me a damn thing about my chemical romance or panic at the disco. Is there a magazine that knows the difference?

THere is Paste, although it's the kind of magazine that won't surprize you to have a cover story of The Shins. Not that I don't like The Shins, it would just be nice if there was one mag that had a little bitof everything.

Correction: A little bit of everything already preapproved as good by me.

I used to read Blender, because my sis had a subscription. There are a few cool recurring articles but it seems to be tabloidesque which I didn't like.

The Big Take Over is good.

I don't have any subscriptions anymore. But I still buy UNCUT quite often (I like the free CD).

I always get the new Nude mag, sometimes I buy Bizarre, The Wire, PlanB, PIMP, various tattoo mags...

Oh, I've got to remember to pick up the current issue of Mojo (which I never buy, but this issue's all about The Stooges and has a free CD compiled by Iggy, so....)

Yeah, I like Mojo just for their cd's, cause even crap bands can make a good list of old stuff sometimes, even if it's just because they are wanting to impress :)

For noise, industrial and metal of an experimental persuasion, I recommend Rock-a-Rolla, but I suspect that the only way to get it outside the UK would be a subcription.

Purely a personal opinion, but Plan B annoys the tits off me. Definitely a mag for the myspace generation.


EDIT - Bollocks. I meant to post something far more momentous for my 5000th post.

Heh, true on some cases.

I buy a lot of different music mags... from Metal magazines to Classical ones, but for the indie rock reccommended music stuffs - The Wire and Mojo do it for me.

capitain obvious: uncut and mojo

Never thought of it like that but you're so right.

Playboy?

the sound projector

http://www.thesoundprojector.com/

they only put out one issue a year, but it's by faaaar the best music magazine i've ever read.

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the wire is the best
magnet is good for the average "indie" stuff
bpm if you like the whole club/electronica thing
big takeover

really, anything but spin and blender and AP are good choices.

Skyscraper

http://www.skyscrapermagazine.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper_Magazine

I like Plan B. They have good free CDs.

The Wire. Fullstop.

Been subscriber for almost 2 years now and never regretted a penny.

my favs are:

big takeover
the wire
terrorizer
mojo

uncut's content/writing level has gone down considerably over the years.

signal to noise is above average, nothing to get too excited about but btter than whatever you are planning on wasting your money on.

the wire is the only magazine i've ever liked enough to subscribe to. i jack copies of fader from the radio station i work at, occasionally, though.

I only tend to read videogame magazines now and then... Last music mag i bought was mojo though probably a good few months ago.
:rolleyes: I hear that kerrang is pretty good though!

aww, I used to buy Kerrang every week when I was 12-15... they were the first magazine ever to print my letters.

Harper's Magazine

not music, but oh well

Hmm. Thanks for all the feedback, everyone. I think the wire looks pretty universally liked so I'll check for it next time I get a chance. Woooo

i cancelled my subscription to every music magazine except the wire. rolling stone doesn't cover anyone that i like and what they do cover they do a shit job of.

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."

Worst quote ever and nobody knows who said it:

http://www.pacifier.com/~ascott/they/tamildaa.htm

You know who used to rule? AP.

My Bloody Valentine cover stories and Polvo tabs... yep.

Now.. give me a fucking break. I've sent those dudes a few emails: "Hey, I know you have to put shitty bands on your cover to sell magazines, but is it possible you could make a REAL 'Alternative' press? You know, a magazine that isn't just Blender/Spin/Rolling Stone 2?" ... you know, I emailed em shit like that.

And one dude, Jason Pettigrew, one of the editors, emailed me back, and said "It's all business man. Sorry." Hah.

obviously they're out to make money, not to appeal to a demographic which would be implied in the title of their magazine. it's just the times. back in the 90s alternative music was the thing, and the direction music (and thus the magazine) has gone in has shifted radically.

Right.

But man, like it or not, spin at one point covered tolerable music too... and they had kevin federline on their cover last year. KEVIN FEDERLINE.

im sure im gonna get shit for this, but here it goes : Vice

I think what you're after, zedius, is a zine of some sort. Rare these days.
Nearly all magazines you will find something you think is shit. I used to not mind Kerrang, it had some cool stuff in it (yeah and it's always had some shit in it too) but I looked at it last year sometime at the newsagents, and it was full of dicks with all the same haircuts and all wearing eyeliner and colourful tattoos where they've just asked for "Sleeves please" and struggling for vision through there hair. It did have a lengthy article on the Bronx and another on the Mars Volta, but I couldn't bare to purchase the rest of the filthy shit. Oh well, such is life, I guess.

ewwwwwwwwww!!!!!

is that the shit you were speaking of?

and at least you didn't say 'chunklet'.

http://www.myspace.com/rockarollamagazine
http://www.rock-a-rolla.com/

This magizine looks really cool. But, it's ran out of the U.S. and subscriptions are waaaay too much

I read DRUM! Magazine.....it's basically porn for drummers.

Vinnie Paul's on the cover next month!

This Rock-a-Rolla looks really really good.

^
Rock-A-Rolla is good, especially the reviews. But as Finding Nobody says, it's bloody expensive to subscribe if you're outside the UK. Fortunately for me, I'm not outside the UK.

I don´t read any music magazines but i have this stupid addiction:
Every month i go to the bookstore selling the german Spex magazine and steal the cd that comes with it. This month there is a new Fall track on the compilation.

grrrrr

THIEF ! THIEF ! Now I know your real face !

that´s a pretty good picture of me, i like it.
and the girls go crazy about my mask !

Sorry man, been playing Hitman:Silent assassin yesterday way too much.

i generally tend to read the wire and a few design magazines. sometimes look at heat and those supermarket tabloid ones for fun. the big issue is also good as is private eye and sometimes viz.