Take heart, those of you who fear the imminent demise of the era where people read about music on stapled-and-printed pages: Seven music-related periodicals have made the short list of the Chicago Tribune’s annual “50 Best Magazines” list. They are: the Baroque-centric bimonthly Goldberg; the classical mag Gramophone; the indie bible Magnet; the Metropolitan Opera’s house organ Opera News; the still-hanging-in-there Rolling Stone, which gets points for its access and being nicer than Pitchfork; and the home-recording obsessives’ guide Tape Op. And, um, the NME, which I guess does hold its own in the “soldiering on breathlessly despite the facts being in the way sometimes” department. [Chicago Tribune]
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Well, speaking of magazines that still are predominantly magazines rather than websites — hats off to my recent discovery Bixobal. And then there’s Dream but as I’ve written for them my view is by default biased.
As a gamer, I have to say…Nintendo Power? EGM remains the best and not a tool of one company (no matter how much I adore them).
@Ned Raggett: Woah, thx for the heads-up on Bixobal. Srsly.
TapeOp is a great magazine. And a subscription is absolutely free!
“…decidedly absent of intrusive first-person narratives in which the self-indulgent journalist becomes that obnoxious solo marring what could have been a tight pop song.”
uh - which Magnet were they reading?
A portion of the Tribune’s list seemed middle-of-the-road. I was happiest to see [www.BelieverMag.com] in there. I’ll go on to namedrop [www.ArthurMag.com] along with [www.ReadyMadeMag.com] and Canada’s lovely music mag [www.Exclaim.ca] too. The cyberworld hasn’t killed off the printed word just yet!
I forgot about Tape Op!
Also, why is Wax Poetics not on that list?
@cheesebubble: seriously, Exclaim? it’s one big ad, i’d be hesitant to even call it a magazine.
@Murgatroid: SERIOUSLY! The ads are what makes it available for free. And, honestly, they don’t bother me. At least the ads are largely music related. I can’t think of another Canadian music magazine that comes close to Exclaim. Chart Magazine is like Teen Beat fodder.