Alan Light's new magazine, TRACKS, hits newsstands.....do we care?

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Initially billed as sort've a Yank approximation of MOJO, the premier issue features Sting on the cover (hold your groans for a moment). The masthead is peppered with refugees from Rolling Stone and Spin. Light's opening salvo reads like this.....

Blood on the Tracks. Bruce Springsteen's Tracks box set. Eight-track tapes. "Tracks of My Tears". And now, at last, TRACKS the magazine. A music magazine for real music fans -- meaning fans of real music, looking, for something other than what the ultrabrite pop outlets are hawking 24/7. Not just the flashy video, the hot remix, the flavor of the moment, but something more substantial, the stuff that we call "music built to last."

It goes on like that.

Initial thoughts?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"I am really fucking annoyed that I let a friend of mine talk me into giving him my address for an advance copy that I never actually received."

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

music to grow old and shitty by

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Track marks (we didn't inhale). One-track mind: nostalgia. Half-tracks (my next status vehicle purchase when I've gotten bored with my Hummer). I believe you've stepped in some Phil Collins, for god's sake don't track any on the carpet.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"I am really fucking annoyed that I let a friend of mine talk me into giving him my address for an advance copy that I never actually received."

The quote marks make this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 December 2003 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

My initial excitement faded upon realizing that I'd wrongly read the subject header as "Alan Licht's new magazine." Err, I have no idea who Alan Light might be. Probably all the better, given the editor's opening remarks.

― doug watson (solid air), Monday, 1 December 2003 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Alan Light was an editor at SPIN for a bit...and probably a couple of other likely mags.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 December 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Light was the plank that decided to put corporate rock runts: Matchbox 20 on the front cover.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds about right.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"I am really fucking annoyed that I let a friend of mine talk me into giving him my address for an advance copy that I never actually received."

I didn't get my free trial copy either, but I sure did get my invoice for my nonexistent subscription! No worries, though - the pitch has already frightened me off.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I started a thread about this topic about a week ago. It died with just one response.

Perhaps it's a metaphor for the magazine itself.

― Debito (Debito), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

can we groan about Sting being on the cover now?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

uhh...

Is that the sound of groaning?

― Debito (Debito), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

uhhhhhhhhhh aah

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Music to sell Jaguars by.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Thought he finally changed his name to "Lite"...

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't get my free trial copy either, but I sure did get my invoice for my nonexistent subscription!

me, too! i did see a copy, though, and my initial thoughts were "poo."

― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

finally got my free trial copy yesterday. and today i got an email from them apologizing for sending the invoice before the magazine.

so that almost puts them back in my good graces.

except that

(a) they tell me they will make it up to me by extending my subscription by one issue, which means they are still under the delusion that i actually have a subscription.

(b) the premiere issue still sucks.

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 4 December 2003 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Anybody reading this mag? Looked at the contrib list for a sec and I see Matos and Wolk are writing for it. Didn't get to see anything else.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i wouldn't be so sure even matos or wolk are reading it

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i applaud anyone who tries to publish almost anything, and i hope they succeed. they really need to hire an art director though.

― dan (dan), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The picture of Norah Jones on the cover of the current issue is terrible. Rolling Stone has way hotter shots of her.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

It looks like her passport photo.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I misread the the thread title as Alan Licht, and I thought "hey... this could be interesting."

Woops... this magazine looks dreadful.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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