So a new UK music mag has launched ....part 66756564 - "Louder Than War"

I have no such skills

CTCL , LLSS and Plan B were great mags

o did Sealings move to Brighton

all good Oxford bands (and some of the bad ones) move to Brighton

(perhaps it is a different Sealings)

― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, September 26, 2015 12:05 AM (12 minutes ago)

I think they might have been at uni at Oxford, actually, so quite possibly the same ones? (They are m8s, innit.)

This looks fucking shit. Though my interaction with LTW online has always been "oh, a link to that place, it's supposed to be alright iirc... oh no, wait, it's a pile of bollocks".

http://i.imgur.com/8Yum5qK.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/u1Yv2op.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9Xds93D.jpg

Are we actually supposed to read those or.....

just letting people know the contents. Sorry if the pics arent great

Please don't say "if you don't like a thread, don't read it"

Help me out here, are we supposed to point and laugh?

wait you bought this? what is happening, i thought we were making fun of britrock bands

i kinda like it for that alternative universe vibe. like looking at christian rock magazines. a world where people still listen to old mansun cds...it might as well be sci-fi to me. but it's just a culture thing. korean music magazines would be just as foreign to me. maximo park! i mean what on earth could they sound like? feels like i've seen that name forever.

xp

yeah I bought it as I wanted something to read while waiting for my opticians appointment

unbelievable how long stone roses can run on two albums. isn't it? are they rich from those records? talked about endlessly since 1994! that is truly impressive. how many words in the u.k. print world have been written about those dudes? millions maybe.

haha sex pistols did one

is it strictly a British thing?

do young british people listen to the stone roses or is just old geezers who look like the sleaford mods who still listen to them?

i dunno, i would have to think really hard to come up with a band who released so little music who have gotten as much ink in the u.s. as the roses have. there aren't really any music mags here though. it's not like you read about big star everywhere here. bad example anyway. the stone roses are ALWAYS in british music mags.

i guess The La's beat even the roses though. i'm sure mojo still writes about them.

I have seen two girls about 12 who live near me wearing Stone Roses and Nirvana tshirts. That's the kind of level they are. Sure i bet they are seen as the "weird kids" in school but those into music always were.

Stone Roses were very important to a section of people my * age (not just guys I may say)

*inc me

Scott are there a lot of niche magazines in the US or are they just general music types? Anything that covers 'indie'?

uhhhhhh, is Magnet still a magazine? or Alternative Press? they are the only indie ones i can think of and they might be out of business by now. there are a lot less places to BUY magazines in the U.S. now. you can still always find Mojo and Uncut and the Wire though. i buy Ugly Things when it comes out. that's about the only U.S. music zine i buy.

and i still get Decibel in the mail free every month. because they like me.

Decibel is really the only kinda-big U.S. music magazine that is any good. in my opinion.

there is wax poetics. but i consider that more of a niche/zine thing like an ugly things. smaller in scale than decibel. and i rarely see it anywhere anymore.

I wonder why metal print mags survive and indie ones cant? (Metal was never mainstream here)
Especially here in the UK where niche of a niche metal mags can survive

Kerrang (Ok not metal now but the only rock mag that has more than 50% female readership)
Terrorizer
Zero Tolerance
Iron Fist
Rockarolla
Big Cheese

xp

I have a digital sub to Decibel as I cant get the mag here and the print mag is too expensive to import

While they do overlap sometimes they also cover a lot of stuff the others dont.
and probably others i forgot/dont know about.

metal fans are to the death. they will buy anything metal.

Alternative Press is definitely still around, and thriving. They just had a 30th anniversary exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, actually. I'm really impressed by what they do, even though I don't write for them anymore (I stopped last year). They know exactly who their audience is - basically teenagers through people in their early 20s - and they cater to them incredibly well. Whether or not you like what they cover is one thing, but you would almost never look at an issue of AP and think, "Why is that band in here?"

U.K. mags in general just vastly superior to anything here. but there isn't much left here. but even the U.K. mags with Joe Bonnamassa on the cover are LEAGUES better in every way. design, layout, writing, art, photos, everything.

AP has always been good at what they do. and years ago they covered metal that no other non-metal mag would. i just haven't seen a copy in years.

I don't think I'd ever see it if I didn't have a subscription. Same reason I still see Down Beat (which is horrible, btw - hideous covers, awful layouts, and astonishingly bad writing); I vote in their annual critics' poll, and every year everybody who votes in the poll gets a year's subscription as a thank-you.

I definitely think that 'niche' mags are the only ones that can survive. Hopefully not just niche mags that only cover older music though.

It's a shame that you cant have a music mag that covers everything but nobody seems willing to pay for it.

Because nobody likes "everything." A magazine like that would have max 2 articles per issue that any given potential consumer might like. That's a recipe for abject failure. The only way to sell a magazine is to make sure that a potential buyer a) knows more or less what they're gonna get (which keeps them coming back) or b) can look at the cover and say "OK, I'd like to read about them...and them...and him...and him...and her...and that...all right, that's worth five bucks."

the magical belief in the rejuvenating qualities of 'new music' as subscribed to by aging tastemakers is not wrong because it is irrational but because the attempt to assert vitality through consumption is grotesque

― nakhchivan, Friday, September 25, 2015 9:24 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god thank you!

― mattresslessness, Friday, 25 September 2015 22:38 (Yesterday) Permalink

I've not seen anything about or referencing The La's for a long tiime.

lol uk landfill posters just cant keep off my dick on threads like this

louder than war tho with significantly less tendency for millions of innocent young men to be mowed down like blades of grass

safer than war

louder than War (band)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siNoYypkGlQ

amazing band

if that's the band 'War' there then yes.

there's fans of landfill indie on ilx?

several posters seem peculiarly obsessed with it

Would hope that doesn't mean they like it!

dont think mansun,stone roses etc quite count as landfill indie however

there's a band called KAGOULE?

from nottingham apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvOmgnfJsa8

the reviews section is a decent size

...there are a lot less places to BUY magazines in the U.S. now. you can still always find Mojo and Uncut and the Wire though...

― scott seward, Friday, September 25, 2015 9:05 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea that's true, basically bookstores and record shops both of which are sometimes hard to find

also i am not seeing the wire mag anywhere lately, even at bookstores with larger-than-usual magazine selections