Music Magazines

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/

http://www.hymanarchive.com/

Wow. Do you think he wants some obscure 1982 US hardcore punk zines I am considering tossing (or should I try to sell them on ebay)?

haha that guy thinks very highly of his piles of old Q magazines doesn't he?

There's this "Ultimate Collector's Edition THE WHO from the publishers of Uncut" mag that had been staring me down at the checkout of my local CVS for the last few weeks. It seems really out of place. Like, say what you want about The Who, it would surprise me very much if someone would buy an entire print magazine about them in 2016. It really doesn't feel like it's their moment. It's really weird to see next to People and In Touch. Am I underestimating the selling power of The Who? Does this really make money for the publishers of Uncut?

Well they've done a load of other artists already. Would think the Who would be popular enough to sell a couple of copies of that in most areas.
They do seem to be pretty expensive though & that History of Rock reprint mag is even more so.

These kinds of things are p much the only music magazines I see in the average WHSmiths in the UK.

Most of these mags reuse interviews, features etc from old Melody Makers and NMEs, so the editorial costs are relatively low, and the mark-up pretty high - I don't suppose they have to sell more than 10,000 or so to turn some kind of profit, and while sales on a Who mag prob won't come near to sales on a equivalent Beatles/Floyd/Zep mag, I bet it's still a nice little earner.

Like, say what you want about The Who, it would surprise me very much if someone would buy an entire print magazine about them in 2016.

Hell, I didn't even buy a copy (it's been at my grocery store checkout for almost a month).

I got one.

It's pretty decent, as was the Dylan one. As you say, the 'classic' albums have been reviewed to death, but particularly with the Dylan one, each album gets no more or less than two pages, same amount of pics and text, which means that you can work out what the later albums were about and if they are worth bothering about.

Things like The Who, Beach Boys and Dylan would seem to have some sort of value, whereas the Pistols/Lydon, Oasis and such like don't, really. Oh, and they were giving the Foo Fighters one away with 'special' bagged copies of "Q" or some such, because who cares?

was flexipop the greatest music magazine ever? the scans on this page are all fantastic:

http://flexipop.com/

Paul Weller dressed as a scientist:

http://flexipop.com/Resources/Paul%20Weller%20cover%20no28%20web.jpg?15

Mari Wilson and the Wilsations re-enact Psycho as a photo story;

http://flexipop.com/Resources/Mari%20Wilson%20Psicko%2002a_web.jpg?316

etc

A strange magazine

http://i.imgur.com/SRndxTK.png

Kim Wilde admitted that her two heroes growing up were Gary Glitter (ouch!) and Elton John. She contracted meningitis as a toddler and had her first boyfriend, Ned, when she was nine.
She told us she was a moody adolescent who would constantly row with her mum. So pop stars really are like us after all…

hah, i suppose that could be taken the wrong way since gary glitter was mentioned, but trust me its not meant to be.

Jobs lost as rock music media firm Team Rock collapses

That sucks. Also Rock-A-Rolla has gone quiet since July - http://rock-a-rolla.com/main/

https://longreads.com/2018/12/27/where-have-all-the-music-magazines-gone/

Tyler, they could have at least plugged your blog!