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useless new UK music magazine: playmusic

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have you see this useless new music magazine on sale? playmusic

issue 1 has razorlight on the front cover, saw it on sale in sainsburys and whsmith

a combination of:


NME
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mallcore rock of rock sound/kerrang
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artrocker loser local generic brit guitar music

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

what is the point of launching a magazine that offers absolutely nothing new.

i can see this being another failure ala bullit and bang.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

For a sec I thought that said "cillit bang"

Terrible masthead, this magazine has

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

I am just shocked that a magazine so awful can be launched in 2006, it looked so unremarkable. target market would be 15-20? that listen to zane lowe?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

and not only all that - but issue one = 220 pages plus !
will be interesting to see how many pages they fill for #2. ..

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 06:45 (twenty years ago)

I had a flick through.

Apparently, every album they've reviewed is close to fantastic.

Mag ends.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 07:10 (twenty years ago)

bad reviews create risk of offending core readership

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 07:13 (twenty years ago)

how is Clash doing?

― ;_; (blueski), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 08:52 (twenty years ago)

still going

clash magazine
http://www.clashmagazine.com/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 08:55 (twenty years ago)

but sales and content wise?

― ;_; (blueski), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 08:55 (twenty years ago)

bad reviews create risk of offending core readership
-- Charlie Howard (charlieflie...) (webmail), Today 8:13 AM. (later) (link)

Yeah, but also runs risk of Boring the readership. It did for Melody Maker in the end...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 08:57 (twenty years ago)

sales: probably no more than the wire

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 08:59 (twenty years ago)

mark, true true

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 09:04 (twenty years ago)

systems thinking elephant in room of uk music press. get darkwave coverage from portsmouth city of culture headquarters. play mastodon upfront leave borrelll on the bench.

― actobat (elwisty), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 09:22 (twenty years ago)

meanwhile, the american's show how to do a front cover:

isis are on the front cover on decibel magazine
http://www.decibelmagazine.com/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 09:54 (twenty years ago)

This would have been perfect:

NME
+
artrocker loser local generic brit guitar music

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Apparently, every album they've reviewed is close to fantastic.

This is rather usual for new mags, particularly if the writers are new to reviewing.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:51 (twenty years ago)

About The music news weblog - all the latest news of forthcoming albums, reissues, media news and collated reviews of new albums - plus on going updates of album release dates. Setting the agenda for music that matters in 2006.

Sounds Covered:

* dark/black metal (the more atmospheric, epic or experimental artists)
* darkwave/ gothic/ ethereal
* electro / breakbeat/ nu skool breaks
* epic alt-rock/ electro-rock / art-rock/ avant-prog
* hardcore/ metalcore/ noisecore (artists on the experimental/multidimensional side of loud music)
* IDM/ experimental electronics/ glitch/ ambient sounds
* industrial/ electro-industrial/synth sounds
* avant jazz / jazz fusion/ jazztronica
* jungle/drum n bass
* leftfield/ instrumental/ avant/ electronified hip-hop
* post punk
* post rock/ spacerock
* shoegazer/dream pop sounds
* techno/tech house/deep house/ minimal house/progressive house
* and many other hybrids and musical mutations (dub, electro-acoustic etc)

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Hip Hop, R&B, Jungle, Dub etc. YAWN!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

FAKE GEIR

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

What do you think of Rock-A-Rolla
It at least covers some bands I like that Kerrang doesn't seem to bother with much (or at all). Plus the 1st issue had Khanate on the cover!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Why is it (R-A-R) designed to look like a slightly trendy parish newsletter?

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 23:53 (twenty years ago)

Mike Patton is shitting for Jesus.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 23:56 (twenty years ago)

At least the content is good, Dom. Which makes a change for a lot of rock mags these days.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 11:51 (twenty years ago)

The content isn't good. They write about some good bands. There's a difference

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 12:20 (twenty years ago)

Still better than most rock mags.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Geir, Hongro, Trad etc. YAWN!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Just wait til he publishes his own magazine Geir Musical Express.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Hip-Hop Disconnection

― ;_; (blueski), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Geirrang

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

looks like a load of boring old shit at least nme et al cover great bands like fall out boy.

― acrobat (elwisty), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

RIP. Heaven needed a crock of shit.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Pour some licker out: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2349179106&ref=nf

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

That long?

blimey!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Rocksound: STILL GOING.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure RockSound will actually survive a nuclear holocaust, such is its persistence.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

"Biffy Clyro on how they plan to battle giant cockroaches and populate a new society of survivors"

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Barney Jameson (London) wrote
at 11:39am
I don't know if me joining this group breaks some kind of legal rule but fuck it, PM was my baby after all.

You know my (soon to be) ex wife actually made the name up over a curry in Borough Green. I was really struggling to think of something that might work. I kept thinking of Play, but of course there's a PlayStation mag with that name. Eventually she said, 'Why not Playmusic?' History was made over that curry...
Message - Report

― NI, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

"How could this happen to me, I made my mistakes..."

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Chaos ensued in Camden on Sunday as Clash Magazine’s Sunday Sessions returned to the Lock Tavern with a capacity-full crowd stuffed in to see a rousing return from The Thrills.

― acrobat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe that of all the 'alternative' bands on the British indie scene, Biffy Clyro had to be the ones who made the huge commercial breakthrough. ARGH.

― Just got offed, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's something that keeps me awake at night as well. Ten Benson could have been someone.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

it's a shame louis has become southall's padawan, an apprentice dj martian would have been far more entertaining.

― acrobat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

DJ Martian holds a certain sway! Without him I wouldn't be such a massive fan of Ulver's 'Blood Inside'. His vast depth of knowledge is of consistent use to me.

― Just got offed, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

hey Louis that HMV guy knew all along, eh?

― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

that HMV guy may have known all along, but that doesn't stop him from being a zeitgeist-following drone with a rubbish taste in metal.

btw kerr is another of my ILM mentors, he'd be unhappy if I didn't mention him and I think that might be him just there

― Just got offed, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Louis, are you impressionable enough to like anything ILXors of a certain status recommend?

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Does he trust The Lex?

― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

btw check out 1995 kerrang poll. Did rock music start to go down the dumper then?

― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

No, because they're not always going to be right. If they recommend something I like the look of, I'll give it a go, but there's plenty of stuff they like which really isn't my kind of thing. In fact, I don't go by 'status', I go by quality of recommendation, so if ANYONE here suggests something I like the look of (see: the 90's alternative masterpieces WANTED thread) then I'll investigate. There are people here who seem to take more of an interest in my musical upbringing, which is nice, but any decent lead and I'm off. Even you, Dom; your enthusiasm for Half Man Half Biscuit has gone a long way to persuading me to check them out. Certainly the lyrics you've reposted here have been pretty awesome.

'Certain status' is just bollocks.

― Just got offed, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'M 5'8" DAMNIT

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Louis, get on that Krautrock poll thread and take notes!

― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

haha

I might get faust IV

― Just got offed, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Louis reads between the lines WELL!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:29 (nineteen years ago)


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