POLL: Your favorite current music magazine

My favorite music magazine is, just about any I can get my hands on. I have to be careful, I'll end up blowing too much money on magazines that could have went towards vinyl!

During the summer evenings you'll find me on the porch/back yard reading physical copies of Uncut, Mojo, Shindig etc.
When traveling for work or waiting in lines you'll see my phone glowing with the light of digital magazines.

One I would add to the list is Metal Hammer. Even if you're not a metalhead seek out their issues of The Story of Metal Vol.1 & Vol.2. Excellent compilation of articles from the birth of heavy to the 90s.

The most outrageous packaging I ever saw was in in 2015 where Mojo released a vinyl edition of Physical Graffiti covers including a poster!
https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/19051/mojo-led-zeppelin-physical-graffiti-vinyl-edition/

I miss the long defunkt Metalshop magazine, Flexi-discs, and all of the Fanzines of the 80s-90s-00's.

I have vintage copies (and buy) of:

Creem
Interesting documentary released in 2019:
Boy Howdy: The Story of Creem Magazine (2019) - IMDb

Down Beat

 

I was a backer for the Kickstarter campaign on this documentary. I got a mug...I never got a copy of the documentary that I was supposed to get.
I guess they are still trying to get an distribution deal 4 years later?

 

Because the UK mags are so expensive I've had to cut back...Now I buy Shindig , Record Collector , Ugly Things and will buy Flashback if it ever resumes publication . I flip through Mojo and Uncut at the racks.

 

I read my music stuff here, on this forum. The information you get here is beating every magazine. The juicy inside knowledge details. The stories, the pictures and handscribbled notes. This'll do fine for now.

 

This is the one I voted for.

This would've been my 2nd choice.

Darryl

 

I miss the days of the newsprint issues.
Bought many vinyl records in the 80s & 90s for my collection through those pages.

Darryl

 

How I miss Circus Magazine

 

I believe Barnes and Noble still has it.

 

I miss "PULSE" from TOWER RECORDS.....I miss "UNDER THE VOLCANO" A xeroxed fanzine.....free and packed with cool mini-reviews!It was a local long island fanzine.

 

still love Mojo. know it caters to my soft spots--Beatles, Who, Stones--but it still offers great feature articles.

 

yes, did not miss an issue and found some great dealers!

 

The music mag that I read religiously is Classic Pop Magazine! Smash Hits for grown-ups!

 

Ditto. It came along at a good time, while some of us were still lost after Trouser Press went under.

Anyway. Of those listed I go with Mojo. I also pick up Uncut, but it's a bit less substantive and gets into listicles more often. And it looks like Magnet has gone under again, which is a shame.

 

Still the case, which wouldn't be a problem if the mag wasn't based on unedited interview transcripts. I find it can be a chore to read because of these. Jack is such a namedropper, half his interviews are him rattling off shows he's seen, artists he knows, interviews he's done, etc.

 

Shindig is the one I buy( cover has to appeal to me, usually does ).

 

I don't read any of the poll options besides the occasional Rolling Stone article online. Lately I've been reading a lot of Country Song Roundups from the 50's and 60's. My first music publication obsession happened when I found two tubs of my dad's guitar magazines from the early 80's to late 90's. I was 12, had recently found his CD of Black Sabbath's Paranoid, and soon wasn't doing well in school. I read them all cover to cover: Guitar Player, Guitar World, Acoustic Guitar. After reading Paul Williams' Dylan books last year (some of the best), I've also started reading Crawdaddy, which he started, an issue at a time while listening to everything that was reviewed. That's been rewarding.

 

Check your KS updates - it's hitting the festival circuit and backers should be getting their digital copies soon.

 

The Wire.

music-technique related magazines I love are Tom Tom and She Shreds

 

Uncut but only the single-artist-editions!
I buy the occasional Mojo, but I find they often repeat the same stories and anecdotes....

 

Downbeat

 

Shindig and Ugly Things are my current favorites. I also still occasionally read Mojo, Record Collector, Vive Le Rock (when I can find it) and Classic Pop, but like someone else said they're pretty expensive now, so there have to be enough articles I want to read to justify their purchase. I also still read the Big Takeover, but like others mentioned in this thread I find that Jack Rabid interjects himself into the interviews too much.

I used to read Uncut and Q, but those pretty much went downhill years ago.

Trouser Press is the one I miss the most from the old days. And does anyone remember Select? That was good for a while too back in the Britpop era.

 

Mojo ?stopped

buying 20 years ago .. same old.

 

Mojo ? I sold my 5 years collection to a specialist shop b&m about the year 2000...got £100.

Never get that n o w.

 

The Wire, UK

 

What music magazine has the best writers?

That’s is no cut n paste reviews.