I think it's a common problem with music radio and music publishing; it's an industry based not on love, but on fear.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
Print media is just more risky these days. At least with digital if you cover something niche you're sort of guaranteed someone will be interested, and even if they aren't it's not the end of the world. Once you start having to factor in printing and logistical costs it all becomes hedged bets.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 13:27 (eleven years ago) link
But again it's not so much what is covered that gets me, it's how it's covered. We're at a stage where prestige for a written article has switched from print to digital, so a respectable writer would more likely appear online than in one of these shallow rags.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
which is why people like Morley are pathologically grumpy about So-Called Internet Critics superseding "traditional gatekeepers." Someone from '76 calling himself a "traditional gatekeeper," oh my sides.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
Something mags used to do was take the piss quite a bit - out of musicians, out of the music industry, out of themselves even. There was a kind of irreverence, a "who gives a hoot, it's only music" attitude that I don't see much any more even in the best publications and sites and certainly not in mainstream alt-monthlies where even a mildly disparaging review is considered daring.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
was thinking about how much i LOVED buying magazines and how many magazines i used to buy! i would go to a barnes & noble 10+ years ago and buy, like, 15 magazines at a time. i never buy magazines anymore. i'll buy ugly things once or twice a year or however often it comes out and maybe once a year in the winter during a blizzard i might get some new mags at the drug store if i think i'll be inside all day.
turns out most of the planet can live without them.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
i'd guess a lot of the demographic who used to buy magazines when travelling have portable dvds/internet/whatever that takes away their need to read
― syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://khu.music.s3.amazonaws.com/songify_504f6c10e6a0e.mp3
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
Celeb gossip magazines still sell shitloads and that stuff is all over the internet too.
― VOTE in the 1980's ROCK POLL PLEASE! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
Picked up this 'Classic Pop' thingie.Editorially, it ticks off all the right boxes for a 40 yr old raised on synths n ABC n mtv, but the writing is flat and uninspired and the layout is kinda ugly. Oh well.
Can't see this lasting very long.
― mr.raffles, Friday, 26 October 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.classicpopmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/CP01.CoverUK-250px-210x300.jpg
― Aimeej0rd0nian Ghoulcaper (NickB), Friday, 26 October 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
The story of Trevor Horn's ZIT
― Aimeej0rd0nian Ghoulcaper (NickB), Friday, 26 October 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
couldn't have been less entertaining than their story of Trevor Horn's ZTT!
― mr.raffles, Friday, 26 October 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
mr.raffles, man he was mean (but probably fair)
― ILX until I die (snoball), Friday, 26 October 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
btw what was the 'influence of Kraftwerk' article like? I'd like to imagine that it was just some blank pages with a note at the top saying 'If you've bought this magazine you can probably write this article yourself.'
― ILX until I die (snoball), Friday, 26 October 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
On The Road With Madness - Adam Ant
― Aimeej0rd0nian Ghoulcaper (NickB), Friday, 26 October 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ you're ALL doing a much better job than CP did!
@sno - every article is a 'you could've written it yourself!' no real insight at all in these pages.
― mr.raffles, Friday, 26 October 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
The Kraftwerk bit is an excerpt from 'Publikation' btw.
There's quite a bit of cobbling together features from existing sources.
― mr.raffles, Friday, 26 October 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
Now with Added Vintage Rock Magazine
http://www.vintagerockmag.com/subscribe/
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 10 October 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
We were once given some tickets to see Goldfrapp supporting Duran Duran at the M.E.N Arena. It was a bit of a shock to see middle-aged people in cardigans *losing it* for the headliners. Classic Pop reminds me of that sometimes but it does have some very good writers.
― djh, Friday, 11 October 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
how much is this mag now?
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 22 May 2015 13:53 (nine years ago) link
found out that Classic Pop is not part of the classic rock/prog etc stable and is just cashing in on the name
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 22 May 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NWHJMH3
Who should win the best ever 80s album? Tell us your favourite albums from the 80s and be in with a chance of winning 20 classic 80s albums courtesy of Universal. You can choose between one and 10 albums. Get your thinking cap on!
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 22 May 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link