what music magazine should i subscribe to?

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none?

and don't say the wire cause that shit is $100 american.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

anything free (except Vice).

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

the free ones don't come to your doorstep every month unexpectedly.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe you should offer your apartment as a distribution spot?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Blender, even though they haven't given me an assignment in ages.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.andybrauer.com/Guitar_Player_mag_cover.jpg

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

gah!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

*swats computer screen with rolled up newspaper*

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.smoothjazzmag.net/images/middle.gif

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the problem -- the only ones worth subscribing to (Uncut, Wire, Mojo) all cost a shitload. Blender is cheap as hell (I think you can find a subscription online for $8) but you can make it through an entire issue in less than one trip to the john.

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

my best magazine subscription is for res. digital culture mag focused on film/art/music.
kind of like artbyte but less academic and kind of like wired but a LOT less dad-like and not nearly as broad. maybe they're not the same at all... great magazine though.
http://www.res.com

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Buy Diesel!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

res looks enticing. $44.95 for a year though.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

you are not going to have enough time during law school to read music magazines, brody.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

NME.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

are you saying i won't have time to sit on the toilet?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

you will have time to sit on the toilet, but with law school texts and New York Review of Books or Harper's only.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Tape Op is pretty consistently my favorite music mag nowadays....lots of techy recording geek stuff (but sometimes that's interesting too) but they have great interviews with musicians/producers that really give you a different light on stuff other than "so...what was the inspiration for your new album?"

even better it FREE!

www.tapeop.com

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

ehh. that shit is gearhead masturbation.

i don't care that x microphone was used on y album.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The Big Takeover, though that only comes out twice a year or something.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~bigoleg/queensryche/pictures/hpco1290.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://perso.club-internet.fr/dokken/cc18.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

("Street Fighting Man"?)

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm pretty sure that a the $44.95 price for res is actually for two years as the mag is bi-monthly.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

metal hammer, rock sound, or kerrang. i think kerrang is actually well written.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the problem with big takeover is you have to wade through 40 pages of jack rabid saying music was better when catherine wheel ruled the world.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

or FOR AGAINST.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

the other problem is maybe he's right.

but seriously folks i second the tapeop, my sound engineer roommate gets it and i've taken a look at them a couple of times now, and then ended up reading all the interviews if not the whole thing.

― duke op, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Ptolemaic Terrascope?!?!?!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, well, i get tape op already. it gets sent to my parents house still from when i was in high school.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.b4-u-buy.com/35108.jpg

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 29 July 2004 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The Big Takeover, though that only comes out twice a year or something.

I subscribed to it once and Jack Rabid sent me a handwritten letter with the first issue.
Don't know if he still does this but that's fucking cool.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

the Wire, but no seriously, XXL.

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I subscribe Cadence jazz magazine, and was able to keep up for the first few issues, but now I have a backlog of like 15 issues filled with like hundreds of reviews each. It's pretty good if you wanna keep up on jazz, I guess, and more manageble if you keep to a policy of only reading the free jazz reviews like I did.

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

TS:XXL vs. The Source

also is there a decent underground hip-hop magazine? like something that just covers mixtapes and indie rap? someone hook me up.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

independent undie hip hop is banned from print. check your local internet.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

shit they don't even have like a maximum rock n roll type zine? that sucks.
websites then...

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

um XXL, so no contest. XXL is actually like funny and good sometimes, whereas the Source is at this point one of the most unfortunate magazines I've ever read. Whatever credibility they had left went down the tubes with the whole Eminem thing (and the CD they included with the last Eminem cover issue).

Elemental magazine is sort of an underground hiphop magazine as you describe, though they go into mainstream territory (Jadakiss was on the cover recently), and their reviews are awfully written.

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Underground hip hop magazines:
Elemental
Big Daddy
Fat Lace
Wax Poetics

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 29 July 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

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