Music Magazines

i realize "free content" is the wave of the future when it comes to staying in business for another sad few months, but shouldn't you advertise it as such when you assign the pieces?

Apparently Paste is following the late-period Creem template, when it comes to freelancer pay.

But at least Creem back then had the courtesy to file Chapter 11 first, before they made not paying freelancers official.

in all honesty, does anyone here actually like paste? i have friends who recommend me the mag, but all i read online is that they veer heavily towards adult-folk-contemporary-alternative (bon iver, etc, bullshit). not big on metal, but that's far too down the spectrum for me tambien.

xhuxk: pg. 84

Paste = "Morning Becomes Eclectic" in print.

It's been a snore from day one.

Have all you Decibel subscribers already received the new issue (Iron Maiden cover)? I'm still looking for it.

yeah I got it a few days ago

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Paste-music-magazine-to-stop-apf-2828488648.html?x=0&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

thanks for the link to this important news article that provides information that we did not yet know

Sarge, always keeping it positive

I wonder how much they could've saved if they didn't bother including the stupid cd every issue. Does anyone know how much the labels paid to have their artists featured?

I would subscribe to The Wire if it didn't cost so much for ppl living in the US

― markers, Tuesday, August 31, 2010 5:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

THIS

skyscraper sucked, and i say this as someone who wrote for it. blender was fun when it started and was all over the place w/ reviews.

also, i'm way late in saying this, but: CONGRATS COWBELL JESS

"i always buy the mags i'm in!"

blech

for what freelance pay is (was?), freelancers should ALWAYS get a comp copy. i heard the wire doesn't send those.

I would subscribe to The Wire if it didn't cost so much for ppl living in the US

Digital subscription is $45

hmmm

maybe...

Gives you access to a bunch of back issues too.

i heard the wire doesn't send those.

I get 'em (physical and digital). But I've been contributing since 2002 and have written something like a half dozen cover stories (and two others that I think should have been - still kinda chaps my ass they chose Mark Stewart over Bill Dixon). I don't know if less frequent contributors get free physical copies. I suspect not.

http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/system/images/writers/micro/josh-jackson.jpg?1280787155

Paste's original tagline was, "Rock'n'roll: It's not just for kids anymore." I wrote in my updated piece: In its February 2010 issue, the cover story was the contentious "Is Indie Dead?" The piece was disappointing, and the conclusion seemed to be sort of an update of their editorial statement. Yes, indie is dead, and they seem to want to align themselves more towards the Rolling Stone market. Subsequent issues focused on prime time TV, film directors, festival guides, and Tilda Swinton. Rock 'n' roll, it's not for Paste readers anymore.

My piece on magazines was from 2006, before Blender and Harp folded. What's next to go? I'd guess Filter or Paste.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Maybe I should stop predictions. I hate for any magazine to go, really.

Less than 24 hours and you killed Paste. Can you predict something awful about Perez Hilton next?

i still love tape op, though not as much as i used to. it certainly helps to be a recording geek, but you don't have to be, as a lot of the band and producer and engineer interviews can be quite revealing even in non-geeky areas. it also helps to be a fan of either indie or classic rock. but, that all said, it's a very well done zine, and you can subscribe to the print version for free, which is a nice touch.

Whatever happened to URB, it had hip-hop and dance in it.

http://www.urb.com/

They have a site, but I haven't seen a print issue in ages. I guess they are strictly digital. I like their way of thinking, though.

the wire is $15 an issue here in denver!! god damn brits and your superior shit.

the video game section was the only worthwhile thing about Paste.

The Fader is published by a PR/marketing agency, doncha know.

http://i11.tinypic.com/833rrc8.jpg

And The Fader and Pitchfork have some kind of strategic partnership. Which could mean anything. Probably advertising/marketing pooling, but who knows these days. Ah, well.

The Fader and RCRD.LBL are two arms of the same agency, but whatever. I like about 75% of what both of them are pushing.

"CONGRATS COWBELL JESS"

i forgot about that! yeah, more cowbell!

i don't even buy magazines anymore. and i've never lived without them in my life! i dunno, i'm busy. plus, there aren't any good sources near me for magazines. no borders or newsstand kinda place. so i do without. the book store around the corner carries ugly things though. which is really nice of them. the turn it up in brattleboro sells mojo and a couple of others. but i never get them. mojo covers never captivate me any more! they used to have great covers.

No matter who publishes it, I have seen some interesting pieces on dancehall and South African music and slightly obscure US rappers in Fader. Things I wouldn't see in any other Us publication available on newstands.

United States that it is, and not in US magazine either (is it still published?).

New issue of The Sound Projector out now:

http://www.thesoundprojector.com/current-issue/

Someone mentioned Lulu upthread and Ed the editor has gone down this route with TSP this time as well. You can buy a copy direct from him with a free covermount CD or, if you don't want the CD, you can buy a copy without it from Lulu.

sooo, option magazine is back? http://option-magazine.com/

One of the former editors Mark Kemp seems to have done so.

Online only I think. Onetime editor Richie Unterberger does not seem to be involved. Not sure about Option founder Scott Becker.

Funny, I was just reading some old issues of Option while researching something, and thinking how good it was.

Signal to Noise is switching to a yearly format:

After fourteen years as the journal of improvised and experimental music, the summer 2011 edition will be the last quarterly issue of Signal to Noise. We will carry on as an annually published paper and ink magazine released each spring in advance of the summer festival season. The reasons for this are numerous, and I'm sure you can understand this is a difficult decision forced by the current state of the publishing and music 'industries'. However I am quite convinced that by consolidating our resources into one outstanding yearbook style issue each spring, we can continue our work for many years to come with all the qualities you've come to expect from STN.

I want to be very clear for our paid subscribers: we WILL fulfill our commitment to you and you WILL receive as many issues as you paid for. Few current subscriptions extend past issue #64, which will be published in the spring of 2013. At this point we aren't accepting any new subscription payments, but if yours is soon to expire, we will still be selling single copies of the magazine through our website and through our regular network of indie and chain stores. Make sure we have your e-mail address and we'll send you an announcement when each new issue is published with a description of its contents.

If you're a musician or an enabler of musicians, this is the last chance to advertise with us until May of 2012, and we invite you to do so. Complete details as handy PDF on our website: www.signaltonoisemagazine.org. If you've been thinking about it, now's a good time to go for the gusto.

We thank each and every one of you for your past, present and future support, and hope you'll stick with us as we evolve to meet the needs of the 2010s! You'll see the summer 2011 issue of Signal to Noise at the end of May, and after that, we'll look forward to being your annual guide to improvised and creative music!

Yours in music;
pete gershon
publisher
SIGNAL to NOISE

"If you're a musician or an enabler of musicians"

http://www.wiretapmag.org/images/managed/Story+Image_thumb_drugs_story.jpg

boo. i wasn't always the biggest fan (it was always too reviews heavy, for my taste), but i appreciated that it was there at the newsstand as an option (especially when it was the 3rd week of a month and the latest wire had yet to arrive). they covered interesting stuff without airs of supremacy.

hahah, scott

why even bother w/ a yearly format? i can't buy that it's "done out of passion" at that basis. i mean, seriously, the last thing everybody needs is a "year in review" mag that specializes in making lists b/c it's articles are irrelevant in 3...2...1

Hi Pointy;

I'm bothering with the yearly format because contrary to what you might think, I do still enjoy doing this. It's also important to me to satisfy my obligations to the many STN subscribers still paid up for a few more issues. Sure, if money was no object I'd be announcing a bimonthly publication, not an annual, but this is simply a compromise I need to make due to rising production expenses and a shortfall of ad dollars. By consolidating everything into an annual publication that would very likely lean much more on long-form features than reviews, I think we're going to do very well. Almost without exception, STN's creative team and readership has been very understanding about this and fairly grateful that I'm not pulling thr plug entirely. C'mon, please, cut me some slack ... I've been doing this for 14 YEARS, constantly raising funds, gathering, editing, and laying out content, dealing with all the mundane business junk, reshipping packages lost by the USPS, and managing against all odds to outlast Arthur, Skyscraper, Copper Press, Your Flesh, E/I, Coda, Grooves, DIY, Magnet, Puncture, Resonance, No Depression and now Cadence and Art Lies. Anyway, thanks for presuming our future efforts will be a bland year-in-review rehash, but I'm confident that some of our best work is still to come (we've never been a "listy" magazine). This arrangement will also allow me to do some other things with my life. I have a family now that I didn't have when I started STN in 1997, and interests that lie outside the fields of music and publishing, et cetera.

Anyway, thanks for humoring my little rebuttal, and please check out past, current and future issues of our quaint, old-fashioned paper-and-ink magazine.

Yours in music;
pete gershon
publisher
SIGNAL to NOISE
1128 Waverly
Houston TX 77008
www.signaltonoisemagazine.org
signaltonoisemagazine.blogspot.com

"Zine of the Year"
PLUG Independent Music Awards: 2007, 2008 nominee

"Best Periodical Covering Jazz"
Jazz Journalists Association: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 nominee

"Best Arts and Creativity Coverage"
UTNE Independent Press Awards: 2004 nominee

yeah, pointy is, like, 15, so don't take it too seriously. keep doing what yer doing, man.

Seconded. Here's to many more years of STN wonderfulness.

Another new issue of The Sound Projector out now. Reviews of vinyl LPs and singles only this time, loads of photos, choice of colour and b&w editions, print-on-demand through lulu.

http://www.thesoundprojector.com/current-issue/

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