apparently only 65k read NME now, and only a few more read kerrang.

 

have a look at http://www.idiomag.com - basically a music magazine for the web, including videos, news, reviews, bios etc etc - but just based on your interests. so if you like indiepop.. thats what you get.

 

is there a future in this?

OMG an advert. This almost never happens.

It annoys me the people who post links to other sites then bugger off

I used to buy Music Mags, but tbh they got rubbish.

 

Q was good once upon a time, and of course Smash Hits was a must in younger days :heart:

I loved Smash Hits in my younger days but then they teenage girlafied it. How $h!t.

 

I do buy Kerrang! every week though.

its all abour Record Collector, thats the only decent music magazine, Rock Sound is alright, any other magazine i just buy for reading material

The NME's been in terminal decline for over a decade now, only 65.000 readers eh...? When I was reading NME it sold in excess of a quarter million.... Still, all their own fault really, they totally dumbed down their content, hardly even engaging their readers on any kind of critical level, and basically just becoming part of the marketing process rather than maintaining a critical, journalistic distance from it....

 

To answer the question, no, I dont really read music mags anymore.... I actually find that the more quality newspapers like The Guardian and Independent do better music coverage....

ditto ^

 

I find that the so called 'must read' critical muscial reviews and articles come from newspapers such as 'The Guradian' etc.

 

I personally don't read any music magazine anymore. Most of the information I read about music is online. Sometimes I buy an anime magazine if it has some JPop info in.

That Idiomag site is very well presented.

 

My own site - click the link in my sig - is an online mag too...

who needs music magazines when you have class, all-round, interesting and infinitely better publications like Observer's fantastic Music Monthly? And the Guardian music section, though a tad on the measly side, is great, too.

 

The days when NME lauded over the indie industry and dictated trends have long, long gone thankfully..... nowadays, it seems to be run and written by floppy haired 14 year olds who've knocked an issue up inbetween pus-squeezing sessions.

 

They deliberately review items nobody has heard of (or will listen to), they have a hilariously snotty attitude to anything that may, gasp, shock, horror, chart - and that's where their problem lies - they're writing for.... nobody. A slim sliver of the music-buying public who, to be honest, don't even buy that much music.

 

I pray for its demise - it has no use in the current climate, or, as far as I can see, any future one either.

Occasionally I buy Q, but it's not really my scene as I much prefer pop and R&B to indie, rock, and alternative genres. Used to get the Observer Music Monthly specifically for the interesting feature pieces and the reviews, but that's gone way downhill in my mind.

The days when NME lauded over the indie industry and dictated trends have long, long gone thankfully..... nowadays, it seems to be run and written by floppy haired 14 year olds who've knocked an issue up inbetween pus-squeezing sessions.

 

:lol: :lol:

 

Well put mate.....

 

apparently only 65k read NME now, and only a few more read kerrang.

 

have a look at http://www.idiomag.com - basically a music magazine for the web, including videos, news, reviews, bios etc etc - but just based on your interests. so if you like indiepop.. thats what you get.

 

is there a future in this?

 

Even though I have not read those magazines in a long time, those magazines are weekly and I do not know about you, but I always find weekly magazines hard to keep track of, as one week seems to go very these days.

 

I like to read the monthly publications such as ‘The Word’, ‘Uncut’ and ‘Q Magazine’, the later being a magazine of which I have all the back issues from 1986 stored at home.

 

They deliberately review items nobody has heard of (or will listen to), they have a hilariously snotty attitude to anything that may, gasp, shock, horror, chart - and that's where their problem lies - they're writing for.... nobody. A slim sliver of the music-buying public who, to be honest, don't even buy that much music.

 

Wrong attitude completely. Without coverage in the NME and small publications these bands, acts etc would get no coverage at all. I agree that the NME is now totally confused with a news section full of The Killers, Kate Nash and Towers of London while the reviews and upcoming sections actually cover the bands the writers want to. They have to sell copies to stay alive.

 

As for the slim sliver, I'd say they buy a lot more music - possibly up to five of thse obscure band's CDs a week - than someone who simply adds another bean to the count of Amy Winehouse CDs.

 

What do you mean by obscure? As a great deal of the indie 80s and 90s acts that I like would be obscure to 16 year old and most of the acts they would think as being ‘cool’ would mean nothing to me. I do not think I could tell a ‘Jing Jong’ from a ‘Ting Ting’ if they were played back to back to me, and even if they had been played every week on Sunday night ‘Pure’ I think I would still be none the wiser.

I like to read the monthly publications such as ‘The Word’, ‘Uncut’ and ‘Q Magazine’, the later being a magazine of which I have all the back issues from 1986 stored at home.

 

all those q mags prob take up a load of space, you it was bonfire night rtecently :lol: that could have been an idea.

 

out of those 3 (seeing as all 3 are with cds this month) uncut is probs the best for me too read. q ia annoying and so fricking clueless, and the word is too clever and you need a phd in pop to understand it