I remember how in the early nineties, there were several excellent, quasi-underground magazines (like Propoganda, IndustrialnatioN and Carpe Noctem) that presented info on painfully obscure underground bands in a eccentric/flaky/interesting/bent way. As far as I can tell, these magazines only exist as incomplete, cluttered websites or are not in publication at all anymore.
And the only thing out there that isn't squarely mainstream and/or utterly braindead obnoxious is either
1) about stuff I can't seem to get into (such as 'Paste') or
2) preachy polemics ('the Big Takeover' and 'MaximumRockNRoll')
Are there any out there in PRINT that are
WORTH hunting down.
Also, I stumbled across these two, I was wondering if the print version is as useful as the web version...
Losing Today
BB Gun
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― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:30 (twenty-three years ago)
Some magazines profiled:
Alternative Press
http://www.altpress.com/sections/homepage/11-30-1999/index.asp
Some good reviews and profiles amongst the alterna-tripe covered.
Audion
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ultimathule-audion/audion.html
Avant / Art rock
BW & BK
http://www.bravewords.com/
Metal, though does including some naff stuff.
Careless Talk Costs Lives
http://www.carelesstalkcostslives.com/
some good stuff, although for me covers too much dry trad Indie Rock and Americana.
e/i
http://www.ei-mag.com/
new competitor to Grooves, launch soon - experimental electronics/ IDM. electronica, experimentalism and the avant-garde
Electro Ambient Space
http://hometown.aol.com/philipderby/ElectroambientSpace.html
Ambient/ space-music, deep serious electronic listening music
Grooves Magazine
http://groovesmag.com/index2.html
IDM/ experimental electronics
Kaleidoscope
http://www.kaleidoscopemusic.org.uk/
UK mag: Goth/ darkwave, some industrial
Lollipop
http://www.lollipop.com/
cover all that fiercely alternative music - ya know: punk, hardcore, indie rock, alternapop, ska, techno, heavy/industrial/sludge/noise
Meltowndown
http://www.meltdownmagazine.com/
UK mag: Goth/ darkwave/ ebm
Outburn
http://www.outburn.com/
Probably the closest in diversity of coverage to my weblog. quarterly magazine, industrial/ goth/ darkwave/ dark metal/ techno/ Ambient/ post rock/ IDM/ jungle/ breakbeats etal. 4 issues a year.
Pit Magazine
http://www.pitmagazine.com/
Extreme Metal.
The Ptolemaic Terrascope
http://www.terrascope.org/giftshop.html
the folks that run Terrascope, Ned / Fake Jazz approved drone rock.
Resonance
http://www.resonancemag.com/
US Alternative Mag - more smarter than Magnet.
Resonance (LMC)
http://www.l-m-c.org.uk/LMCframeset3.html
Improvised/ avant/ experimental music, London based.
Side-Line
http://www.side-line.com/
European mag EBM/ Electro/ Goth/ Darkwave/ Industrial/ Synth pop etal
The forthcoming issue of Side-Line music magazine n°43 to be released on April 1st 2003, will be featuring interviews with amongst others front 242, vnv nation, erasure, juno reactor, wumpscut, conjure one/rhys fulber, wolfsheim, the gathering, terminal choice, x-marks the pedwalk, qntal, epsilon minus, la floa maldita, solitary experiments, regenerator, dither, javelin/löwy, michigan, moonrock, dyoxide, displacer, lethargy, somegirl, distorted reality, resurrection eve, dj copper top, aenima, fin de siècle, svd, decades, jesux complex, human decay, void construct, tactical sekt, diverje, krushed opiates, jean-marc dauvergne and many many more! We now take pre-orders for this issue that will especially please all Front 242 fans with a special 4 page interview with the band!
Signal to Noise
http://www.signaltonoisemagazine.org/
The Journal of Improvised and Experimental Music.
New Spring edition:
WADADA LEO SMITH
The legendary trumpeter approaches free jazz and contemporary composition from a global perspective to create the music he calls "Ankhrasmation". Story by Howard Mandel, photos by Elise Ryerson.
TIM BARNES
This versatile drummer has kept the beat for Jim O'Rourke, Neil Hagerty and Tower Recordings, explored electro-acoustic percussion alongside Wilco's Glenn Kotche, and reissued archival works by Henry Flynt and Angus MacLise. Story by Jon Dale, photos by Caroline Bell.
TIM HECKER
Montreal's most talented minimal laptopper Tim Hecker rocked the dancefloor as Jetone; now he’s skipping the beats and undercutting the pretentions of minimal techno with a series of ambient solo albums. Story by Martin Turenne, photos by Pete Gershon.
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Skyscraper
http://www.skyscrapermagazine.com/
Magnet/ Big Takeover type mag. US based.
Sleazenation
http://www.sleazenation.com/
UK mag, monthly some music coverage [ala Jockey Slut/ and electronic stuff in The Wire] more a style mag.
Sound Projector
http://www.thesoundprojector.com/
UK infrequent mag: Avant Garde/ Experimental music.
Unrestrained
http://www.unrestrainedmag.com/
Extreme Metal.
XLR8R
http://www.xlr8r.com/
America's finest electronic / dance music mag.
[I trust you know about Terrorizer and The Wire!]
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 15 March 2003 00:27 (twenty-three years ago)