"Maggot Brain" Magazine by Third Man

I'm a little behind on this one since they just announced Issue #7 but I don't see any threads here so maybe I am not alone.

Third Man is of course Jack White's endeavor and Maggot Brain seems to be their take on what Motorbooty[i] and [i]Grand Royal were doing a few decades ago (and they say as much on the press release I received):

We love you and promise to never have a ‘real’ website. Long live print!

We miss cigar-smelling newsstands crammed with amazing publications from everywhere all at once. We miss Creem. We miss Ragtime Ephemeralist. We miss Spy. We miss NY Rocker. We miss weirdo newsprint thrust at us right by subway entrances. We miss Weirdo. We miss Locus Solus. We miss Off Our Backs. We miss Low Rider. We miss Kicks. We miss The Voice. We miss Motorbooty. We miss Avalanche. We miss Grand Royal. We miss Slash. We miss the Gentlewomen of California. We miss Raw. We miss being able to find stacks of old Oz, It, or Black Panther newspapers in the back of that used bookstore in the strip mall. We miss the red and black. We miss the crowding into See Hear. We miss Index Magazine.

We miss anything that Joe Brainard did a cover for, that printed words by Lucy Lippard, that ran yet another bare-chested image of Iggy Pop, that told stories for no reason other than they must be told. And yeah, we are aware how cheesy that last bit sounds, but we are pretty much cool with being cheesy -- just look what the fuck kind of politics irony, disaffection, and that laziest vice of privilege have got us into.

And yes, you get it, we love print but we do not merely live in the past surrounded by the moldy old, really. We mean, fantagraphics is still publishing new issues of Love & Rockets, plus there is so much new stuff. From every single piece of paper at the Printed Matter Book Fair to the eight-colored silkscreen books of Le Dernier Cri, from your scrawled punk grad thesis ‘zines to the perfectly printed works of Eberhardt Press, there is still so much, and so much we do not know about being made now. And we still believe in the democratizing possibilities of the internet, despite its current state. We’re not luddites, but. Just please don’t ask us where our website is.

Over 100 pages packed with phenomenal content - art, music, literature, and unpublished archival stuff + more.

So this is a noble endeavor! The latest issue caught my eye...

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The Winter 2021/22 issue of Third Man Books & Records’ MAGGOT BRAIN magazine (DEC/ JAN/ FEB) streets on Dec. 10 and is extra packed with killer stuff.

THE FRONT COVER is a gorgeous 1981 backstage photo of LOU REED, subject of a phenomenal feature by former NY Rocker contributor LISA JANE PERSKY

INSIDE you will also find:

GRATEFUL DEAD: KURT VILE tries to explain them to none other than TOM SCHARPLING
A special new piece about the making of the Velvet Underground’s LOADED
MYRIAM GENDRON: Track by track guide to her highly anticipated second album
LEE ‘SCRATCH’ PERRY: Reprint of the best feature we ever read about him, by ERIK DAVIS
KINKE KOOI: Recent works on paper
MICHAEL HURLEY: Talks to old friend TARA JANE O'NEIL on Hurley's first studio album in years
DOUG HENNING: The magician’s radical roots in Canada’s thriving 1970s prog/glam scene
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE: Why she rules so hard, but there’s no need to call her the “godmother of rock 'n' roll” again, thanks
GRETCHEN GONZALES DAVIDSON: The mystery and mastery of Detroit’s drone warrior, by Destroy All Monsters’ CARY LOREN

THE GOATS: The 1990s’ most forgotten hip-hop collective?
DEAN WAREHAM: A multi-page comic strip by MARLY BEYER, on drinking coffee with Dean and Britta and why his new solo record is so excellent
PHEW: Japanese experimental artist gets the ANDY BETA treatment
ORCHESTRE TOUT POUISSANT MARCEL DUCHAMP by the great SARA JAFFE
Plus also work on/ by:
LUCY SANTE
CHUCK NANNY
ELIZA CHILDRESS
DWIGHT PAVLOVIC
DAVE BUICK
ADRIAN MATEJKA
BRIAN CHIPPENDALE
BEAUTYWORK
CLAIRE CRONIN
JOHN COLPITS
MICHAEL EVANS
NICK ROSENDALE
+ PASTOR TL BARRETT

So this seems interesting and like something I would want to support. Anyone here read it? Write for it? I am seriously thinking of a subscription.

i really need to get a copy of this, looks great from what i've seen so far

Looks cool (even if "TOM SCHARPLING TALKS TO KURT VILE ABOUT THE GRATEFUL DEAD" feels kind of... overdetermined from the jump)

Cool, Goats feature too.
& think that Grateful Dead thing might be interesting. Can be cool to hear new perspectives.

I think I keep missing editions of this, shame. I think I got the first one and would have loved to keep getting them.

I've got them all -- it's another excellent Mike McGonigal-edited magazine, and every issue has introduced me to something new and interesting without fail.

Ned otm, everyone should subscribe ASAP

Yeah pumped for this even if every noun in this sentence "TOM SCHARPLING TALKS TO KURT VILE ABOUT THE GRATEFUL DEAD" gives me the howling fantods

someone who hates the grateful dead talks to kurt vile for some reason isn't the most appealing

Still such a great mag to look forward to every few months. If only Third Man sent out renewal notices though! Gotta keep a close eye on when your sub ends, I very nearly missed out on re-upping in time for the new VU issue.

Yeah that's a weird glitch on their part for whatever reason.

Loved the archival Doug Yule interview in this one, and ofc Tyler’s piece

thanks! yeah another great issue. what a cool mag!

Yeah I was very much Vince McMahon meme dot jpeg when I saw new issue... with VU on the cover... article about their tapes... written by tyler.

Oops, forgot my subscription ended.

Tyler’s piece is indeed urgent and key.