So a new UK music mag has launched ....part 66756564 - "Louder Than War"

Alternative Press is definitely still around, and thriving. They just had a 30th anniversary exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, actually. I'm really impressed by what they do, even though I don't write for them anymore (I stopped last year). They know exactly who their audience is - basically teenagers through people in their early 20s - and they cater to them incredibly well. Whether or not you like what they cover is one thing, but you would almost never look at an issue of AP and think, "Why is that band in here?"

U.K. mags in general just vastly superior to anything here. but there isn't much left here. but even the U.K. mags with Joe Bonnamassa on the cover are LEAGUES better in every way. design, layout, writing, art, photos, everything.

AP has always been good at what they do. and years ago they covered metal that no other non-metal mag would. i just haven't seen a copy in years.

I don't think I'd ever see it if I didn't have a subscription. Same reason I still see Down Beat (which is horrible, btw - hideous covers, awful layouts, and astonishingly bad writing); I vote in their annual critics' poll, and every year everybody who votes in the poll gets a year's subscription as a thank-you.

I definitely think that 'niche' mags are the only ones that can survive. Hopefully not just niche mags that only cover older music though.

It's a shame that you cant have a music mag that covers everything but nobody seems willing to pay for it.

Because nobody likes "everything." A magazine like that would have max 2 articles per issue that any given potential consumer might like. That's a recipe for abject failure. The only way to sell a magazine is to make sure that a potential buyer a) knows more or less what they're gonna get (which keeps them coming back) or b) can look at the cover and say "OK, I'd like to read about them...and them...and him...and him...and her...and that...all right, that's worth five bucks."

the magical belief in the rejuvenating qualities of 'new music' as subscribed to by aging tastemakers is not wrong because it is irrational but because the attempt to assert vitality through consumption is grotesque

― nakhchivan, Friday, September 25, 2015 9:24 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god thank you!

― mattresslessness, Friday, 25 September 2015 22:38 (Yesterday) Permalink

I've not seen anything about or referencing The La's for a long tiime.

lol uk landfill posters just cant keep off my dick on threads like this

louder than war tho with significantly less tendency for millions of innocent young men to be mowed down like blades of grass

safer than war

louder than War (band)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siNoYypkGlQ

amazing band

if that's the band 'War' there then yes.

there's fans of landfill indie on ilx?

several posters seem peculiarly obsessed with it

Would hope that doesn't mean they like it!

dont think mansun,stone roses etc quite count as landfill indie however

there's a band called KAGOULE?

from nottingham apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvOmgnfJsa8

the reviews section is a decent size

...there are a lot less places to BUY magazines in the U.S. now. you can still always find Mojo and Uncut and the Wire though...

― scott seward, Friday, September 25, 2015 9:05 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea that's true, basically bookstores and record shops both of which are sometimes hard to find

also i am not seeing the wire mag anywhere lately, even at bookstores with larger-than-usual magazine selections