artrocker goes into the world of Weekly Printed Press ..

Artrocker launches weekly rock mag

Playlouder have news of a new weekly music magazine from Artrocker

The magazine, to be called 'Artrocker', funnily enough, will have an initial launch next Monday, October 4th. It will be available through Vital in independent record shops, some fashion emporia, and additionally will be sold on the streets - with sellers getting to keep all proceeds. Make dollar and learn! After an initial four-week period, Artrocker will go weekly from November 1st.

Artrocker website.

Well virtually anything will be better than the clueless and useless NME, however Artrocker is very much of the old skool local fanzine approach. This means their music coverage concentrates on rock bands on independent labels/ or upcoming unsigned bands. The Artrocker approach is high on local enthusiasm but lacks quality control and music diversity is an alien concept to these indie rock rodents. Artrocker is most likely appeal to scruffy gig going 17 - 25 year old types in large cities in the UK.

If Careless Talk Costs Lives/ Plan B are accused of being too rockist, the artrocker types wear it as a badge of pride.

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It amazes me that a mag can be launched with such a narrow agenda.

Have these people heard of: ambient, experimental electronic music, folktronica, drum n bass/ techstep jungle, avant prog, goth/ darkwave, electro, tech-house/ techno/ microhouse, dark/ black metal, industrial, synth pop, leftfield hip hop, avant jazz, breaks, improv, dub.

NME = useless rubbish aimed at teenagers
Artrocker = too narrow an agenda

You actually do have this as a sticky on your desktop don't you?

1.The artrocker agenda is narrow and inadequate in reflecting the diversity of contemporary music from my perspective.

2.Do see a rush of praise for this new artrocker mag on ILM? No

3.There is strong growing evidence from people in their 20s/ 30s on various music forums/ message boards that they would welcome a new weekly music mag - and NOT a monthly. The NME has become an embarrassing teenager rock Smash Hits.

Also check this new website, Boycott the NME: http://www.boycottthenme.com/

DJ Mencap are you aware of a new extreme music mag, Zero Tolerance that has recently launched: [similar to Terrorizer]

Zero Tolerance
http://www.zero-tolerance.co.uk/frame.htm

Boycott The NME - breaking new boundaries in lame.

Zero Tolerance - that the one that had the Peaceville CD on the cover? Looked OK for a first effort, in terms of writing it's no Terrorizer but might be worth giving it time.

I just don't understand where you get your idea that there's this glaring gap in the market for a mag - weekly or millennial, whatever - that reflects tastes as diverse as yours. Speaking as someone coming from much the same perspective, I really wish there was this gap, but saying it over and over ain't gonna make it so

I don't hate the mag as a whole, cos I know many of the writers are uncomfortable with that shit too. It is a bit limited, but it may well expand its coverage. And the retro fonts on the cover are way cool.

You remember that Onion opinion piece: "I AM NOT AFRAID TO TRY POPULAR NEW THINGS"?

found the Real World article.

lots of stuff to take in, not read much.

i thoroughly approve of the motivation, passion etc.
but i have one big problem. it looks like a nasty badly designed fanzine. choice of certain fonts is dreadful, laytout is messy, but i guess this could be the desired effect.

but by far and away the most striking factor ..

man that Tom has Hair from Hell. whoa.

and yes the Hip Hop column is in printed form. which is good .. so its not 100% indie garage rock ..

..........and out again

lol at me eight years ago getting annoyed at djmartian for hammering the same points over and over

not like you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E-s6SYoi4A

Can someone explain the magazine's politics to me? I only know of Artrocker because one of the writers/editors(?) posts on a band-centric forum that I frequent. I never found his interviews/features/reviews interesting, so I never bothered looking at the rest of the magazine.

not sure if this is what you meant but there's an old ILM thread about one of the mag's founders complaining about immigrants in his mailouts. it's kinda lol mostly sad as I recall

if you meant 'what do they cover', someone said earlier that the latest/last issue has Dave Grohl on the cover so... I have no idea really?

Artrocker made some quip about The Quietus being pretentious a couple of years ago. I asked them if they didn't see the irony of what they were saying given their name but they don't really have the same understanding of the word art that I do.

It was always my ambition to break into Smiths one night and put quotes round "art" on the front covers but I guess that's another dream unrealised.

Anyway check this out. I was suicidally depressed before I read this and now I keep on having to stop what I'm doing because I'm laughing so hard.

How ArtRocker Brought Peace To The Middle East

Artrocker’s Editor-In-Chief Tom Fawcett told CMU: “Artrocker has always been an innovator. When people were still ‘clubbing’ in the noughties we started a rock n roll night and put on the first London shows by the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, The Black Keys, Interpol, Maximo Park and so many more great bands that went on to reshape music and culture on a global level. When people were saying the music industry was dead we launched a record label and suddenly the tide turned and vinyl sales rose for the first time in over a decade. People were saying ‘Magazines are over’ so we started a magazine, and here we are, almost ten years later, still going strong and again utilising the technology and tools available to us”.