Periodical Strut (what mags are killing it?)

dstill808

In the ever-changing landscape of periodical journalism, it's pretty tough to stay on top of the people who are still doing something different, keeping to a coherent theme, and writing about shit that you're not hearing about from all the same other sources. So what continues to be good reads in your opinion?I'm feeling:Wax Poetics (for all the obvious reasons)Signal to Noise (great broad yet specific theme of music covered)Beautiful Decay (So well put together)Fader (hate all you want, but still beats most folks to the punch)RE:UP (SD/NY familam)Murder Dog (SO many spelling errors, and articles that are cut off with no continuation, but more more coverage on actual music than just about anything else out there)

onetet

I'm feeling:
Wax Poetics (for all the obvious reasons)
Signal to Noise (great broad yet specific theme of music covered)

Wire
Film Comment
Arthur
ANP Quarterly
Cinemascope

yuichi

RE:UP (SD/NY familam)

I remember this being a quality mag.

rootlesscosmo

I picked up the Atlantic in the airport. I hadn't read it in a year or so and found it...lacking? A cut just slightly above Time IMO. Lots of eye-popping graphics and wry picture captions; not much good content.

igbo

GOOD magazine

rootlesscosmo

weekly-wise I read the New Republic and the Forward. I read Wax Po regularly too I guess. and newspapers.

but I will dabble in the Nation, Commentary, Dissent, Foreign Affairs, American Prospect, Mother Jones, Economist, the New Yorker, etc. on any given trip to the book store.

rootlesscosmo

oh and I still love digging into a Nat'l Geographic every now and then.

The-gaffler

Beautiful Decay (So well put together)

i've grown to dislike that magazine more and more over the years for some strange reason.

although it did make me feel good to see that article in the past issue [i think it was] about the original zines that the magazine once was...those were the best shits ever. i also enjoyed that Set KRT article in the latest issue

dstill808

dwell

I'm not up on these guys. Their website has a Kitchen Blog. Saucy.

99Problems

dwell

I'm not up on these guys. Their website has a Kitchen Blog. Saucy.

Architectural porn for days...

Snagglepus

Anyone read this yet?



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Those Dusty people seem to like it. God knows they have such discriminating taste regarding things they are trying to sell you.

jlee

Murder Dog (SO many spelling errors, and articles that are cut off with no continuation, but more more coverage on actual music than just about anything else out there)

those ain't spelling errors, it's just the dun language.

GET FAMILIAR!!!!!

dstill808

Murder Dog (SO many spelling errors, and articles that are cut off with no continuation, but more more coverage on actual music than just about anything else out there)

those ain't spelling errors, it's just the dun language.

GET FAMILIAR!!!!!

I'm also a big fan of not putting the questioner/questionee in bold, or paragraph breaks in interviews. So stream of consciousness with it.

dstill808

This actually does look pretty legit.

Judging by the single exclamation point usage in their review though, I can only assume this is a total yawner.

rootlesscosmo

This actually does look pretty legit.

Judging by the single exclamation point usage in their review though, I can only assume this is a total yawner.

but their self-description is madd laffable dunn:

"a brand new publication inspired by the five elements, the four noble truths, three - the magic number, forever two stepping (never half) but still always on the 1.
yes indeed, as we proceed. welcome to shook, uk-based but with an international outlook, representing not just the vibrations of the melodic underground, but preaching peace and overstanding in this world of madness."

verb606

This actually does look pretty legit.

Judging by the single exclamation point usage in their review though, I can only assume this is a total yawner.

but their self-description is madd laffable dunn:

"a brand new publication inspired by the five elements, the four noble truths, three - the magic number, forever two stepping (never half) but still always on the 1.
yes indeed, as we proceed. welcome to shook, uk-based but with an international outlook, representing not just the vibrations of the melodic underground, but preaching peace and overstanding in this world of madness."

Wow, that description makes me really want to not read that magazine ever. Nice one!

faux_rillz

This actually does look pretty legit.

Judging by the single exclamation point usage in their review though, I can only assume this is a total yawner.

but their self-description is madd laffable dunn:

"a brand new publication inspired by the five elements, the four noble truths, three - the magic number, forever two stepping (never half) but still always on the 1.
yes indeed, as we proceed. welcome to shook, uk-based but with an international outlook, representing not just the vibrations of the melodic underground, but preaching peace and overstanding in this world of madness."

Wow, that description makes me really want to not read that magazine ever. Nice one!

Wow. That is so poorly written that it verges on evil.

dstill808

This actually does look pretty legit.

Judging by the single exclamation point usage in their review though, I can only assume this is a total yawner.

but their self-description is madd laffable dunn:

"a brand new publication inspired by the five elements, the four noble truths, three - the magic number, forever two stepping (never half) but still always on the 1.
yes indeed, as we proceed. welcome to shook, uk-based but with an international outlook, representing not just the vibrations of the melodic underground, but preaching peace and overstanding in this world of madness."

Wow, that description makes me really want to not read that magazine ever. Nice one!

Wow. That is so poorly written that it verges on evil.

You guys clearly don't overstand the realness....

yuichi

I gotta admit I'm kinda shook by the metaphysics in that self-description.

rootlesscosmo

I gotta admit I'm kinda shook

hey I'm jsut glad you could finally own up.

piedpiper

Economist, Prospect Magazine, Foreign Affairs, Wax Poetics

German: Zeit, Spiegel, IP, De:Bug

pencilface

picked up my first copy of SHINDIG magazine the other day -- it's ace..

mod, garage, freak, beat and psych based bi-monthly from the UK.

dstill808

picked up my first copy of SHINDIG magazine the other day -- it's ace..

mod, garage, freak, beat and psych based bi-monthly from the UK.

Word, nice on the recommendations on the fringe music 'zines. Keep 'em coming.

This mag looks real similar to Ugly Things, if you check that out at all.

pickwick33

picked up my first copy of SHINDIG magazine the other day -- it's ace..

mod, garage, freak, beat and psych based bi-monthly from the UK.

Word, nice on the recommendations on the fringe music 'zines. Keep 'em coming.

This mag looks real similar to Ugly Things, if you check that out at all.

And that's another one I started to mention: Ugly Things, who just came out with a new ish.

I shouldn't mention No Depression since their final issue just hit the stands, but when they were around, they had pretty good coverage on the roots-music scene every now and then. And on that tip, Living Blues, after 38 years, still does a fine job of documenting the blues world.

And as far as soul: In The Basement. Even when they're writing about some "modern soul" act I could hardly give a damn about, the story is still strong enough to make me want to keep reading.

pabloscooter

Harpers & the Paris Review -and I will also ride semi regularly for wax poetics and the wire :NO HBO MO:

Burns

young_cream

w.p.
is XLR8R any good?

Hotsauce84

dwell

I'm not up on these guys. Their website has a Kitchen Blog. Saucy.

I just picked up a year subscription for $7 on eBay. Karlito put me up on this and now I'm hooked!

spelunk

For all the hate it gets from some about the writing there really isn't much out there that can touch WaxPoetics.

Is there a magazine about northern soul in the UK? Seems like there has got to be something...

hemol

Colors, which is run by United Colors of Benetton, is usually great.

I continue to ride hard for Uovo. No ads, tons of great art, and a music cd with each issue.

The Journal is ok, not outstanding, but a decent read.

dstill808

w.p.
is XLR8R any good?

XLR8R does some good stuff, though I feel like they and URB are trying to figure out what their readers want after things kinda sagged for electronic music early in the 2000s.