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Q Magazine closes down - plus Pitchfork news

Lord Camomile said:
Much like ebooks/paper books, there are still certain things I prefer about having something to read on paper. But aye, web-based writing does have a lot more going for it in many respects, particularly for an audio medium.

So where are people getting their music writing these days?
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The Quietus
 
Lord Camomile said:
Much like ebooks/paper books, there are still certain things I prefer about having something to read on paper. But aye, web-based writing does have a lot more going for it in many respects, particularly for an audio medium.

So where are people getting their music writing these days?
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The Quietus. Other than that it all seems a bit shit
 
killer b said:
FWIW I think the magazines aimed at more specialist markets - The Wire, Mojo, Electronic Sound, that kind of thing - are more likely to survive. Scenes of older people who still buy music. Generalist indie rock publications focusing on new music are all on the way out.
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You reckon? Surely, and I’m thinking about Mojo here, they have a demographic problem. There are only so many people who want to read about Dylan/Pink Floyd/The Beatles/the other shit they obsess over?
 
All physical magazines have a demographic problem - but there's still 55,000 people who still want to read about Dylan, Pink Floyd etc (tbf to Mojo, they write about much more than that stuff, but those are the guys they need on the cover).
 
I have a subscription to Fortean Times here and do look forward to sitting down and reading it. I was thinking of a subscription to Q funnily enough in the lockdown. Mojo I quite like but theres only so many articles on such a narrow spread of icon bands and artists that I can be enthusiastic about. I've often bought Mojo to read on the plane back but have only ended up reading the album reviews.
 
Sad to hear about the demise of Q, as others have said already its good to have some proper music journalism still on the shelves, although I'll be honest it's not a magazine I regularly bought - I was mostly Select and the dance mags - MixMag, Wax, Muzik, and Eternity (as well as NME/Melody Maker for indie/rock bitd). Still occasionally buy The Wire if there's a particular feature of interest.

Online magazine wise, I usually check Quietus, Dummy, and FACT Mag.
 
Lord Camomile said:
Much like ebooks/paper books, there are still certain things I prefer about having something to read on paper. But aye, web-based writing does have a lot more going for it in many respects, particularly for an audio medium.

So where are people getting their music writing these days?
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Kerrang!, Metal Hammer and Mojo. Kerrang! are temporarily online only during the pandemic, but according to their website they want to resume putting out paper issues ASAP. I still read NME online, and was gutted that Terrorizer are now defunct.
 
Not a huge metal fan but that genre is fascinating - bands that just keep on going and legions of dedicated die hard fans plus kids still join metal bands and come up with their own subgenres like pirate metal. I’m not surprised this can keep two weekly magazines going (or was that just Kerrang?)
 
I buy The Wire sometimes, Electronic Sound occasionally. Read odd articles in The Quietus but I don't really follow any particular online mag otherwise - I do follow various music writers and suchlike on twitter and often read articles that are linked to there though, which are usually in a wide range of publications...
 
Orang Utan said:
Not a huge metal fan but that genre is fascinating - bands that just keep on going and legions of dedicated die hard fans plus kids still join metal bands and come up with their own subgenres like pirate metal. I’m not surprised this can keep two weekly magazines going (or was that just Kerrang?)
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Yeah, Kerrang! started life as a one-off supplement in Sounds magazine (now, that was before my time!) It's so much more than a metal magazine though, it started off that way but covers metal, punk, Britrock, indie, emo, grunge, all sorts. Kerrang! is definitely a much more varied mag than it's given credit for.
 
Kerrang! has always covered the whole spectrum of rock - a mate of mine posted their end of the year best albums list from 1985 the other day and it's hilarious - just a sec
 
I remember seeing their Take That cover and thinking it's all over, not what I buy you for.
 
ska invita said:
Not looking good for pitchfork

I wonder how many people read it
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On a purely individual level I don't give a shit about Pitchfork as I'm not a millennial indie kid from Wisconsin. I don't think I've ever read an article on the site and all the album reviews are short creative writing essays that say a lot about the journalist typing it but leave you none the wiser about what the record might sound like (probably a not-for-me indie record).

But on a wider level it's completely fucked up exhibit #12043872641 in why capitalism is shit: take a perfectly good cultural something, sell it for $$$, and watch as it's destroyed. Enshitification in process. Fuck capitalism.
 
Spandex said:
On a purely individual level I don't give a shit about Pitchfork as I'm not a millennial indie kid from Wisconsin. I don't think I've ever read an article on the site and all the album reviews are short creative writing essays that say a lot about the journalist typing it but leave you none the wiser about what the record might sound like (probably a not-for-me indie record).

But on a wider level it's completely fucked up exhibit #12043872641 in why capitalism is shit: take a perfectly good cultural something, sell it for $$$, and watch as it's destroyed. Enshitification in process. Fuck capitalism.
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yep im the same...it wasnt for me but people seemed to rate it
thats why i wonder about the demographics and views...it may have just run its course with a generation
its kind of amazing to me that GQ still exists also
 
Spandex said:
On a purely individual level I don't give a shit about Pitchfork as I'm not a millennial indie kid from Wisconsin. I don't think I've ever read an article on the site and all the album reviews are short creative writing essays that say a lot about the journalist typing it but leave you none the wiser about what the record might sound like (probably a not-for-me indie record).
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Pitchfork hasn't really been like that for probably about a decade to be fair.
 
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