Is This The New Smash Hits?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=122193692

Popworld Pulp, launching in a couple of weeks as a new music WEEKLY (v bold).

Looking at its MySpace it doesn't seem to be offering anything hugely compelling though.

Does anyone here still buy print music media, out of interest?

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

That looks ace, should it reach this far out, I will be straight down WH Smiths for a copy.

I read Rock Sound when I have the money, (£3.50 :O etc.) it's actually pretty damned good and has pages and pages (15 or more) of reviews which is, to be honest, the only thing I'm interested in unless there's an interview with someone I really like/am incredibly curious about. I also read the Observer Music Monthly-my-arse-it's-always-fucking-sport-or-food thing, which is good but appears to be cutting back the review section, which is bad.

NME occasionally turns up in our bathroom after a particularly drunken night ending in 24 hour Spar. There's a certain level of intoxication which makes me think 'free CD of utter rubbish?! FVCK YEAH!' and hand over my money.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

OMM is dreadful. The actual content level is minimal, I can't remember being interested or entertained by ANYTHING in the last issue I read, even the "MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE FANS" feature was k-limp and missed some great opportunities for good music writing. I just don't know why they bother.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I haven't read it for ages, to be honest but in the wasteland of utter boredom that is a dormitory village even Reading doesn't want to admit is part of it almost anything becomes really interesting, especially if the parents can be convinced to buy it because it is a newspaper etc.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

It is shockingly poor, and still seems to be very confused as to what's it's supposed to be there for. I think it's a music magazine for people who don't listen to much music. (I have a vague feeling the same is true for their Food & Sport mags - I'm not much of a cook or a sports fan, but quite enjoy OSM & OFM - whereas I love music and find OMM pointless)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes. And also Observer Woman Magazine is for and by robots who have never met any women.

[mippy.livejournal.com]

talk.guardian.co.uk regularly roasts OW. Still not seen a copy myself yet, mind./

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

OWM is one of those things that, along with the annual NewStateswoman, (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/Grungemaiden/nswm.jpg) makes me curl up into a foetal position and try to work out whether I'm angry or just disappointed. :( And I've never even read a copy.

The point about OMM being very 'ooh hello we're MUSOS and you're not WOW' is true. I should probably reassess it now I have an internet connection.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ha true for me too - though I'm pretty confident that OSM is really good anyway, apart from making me interested in reading about sports I don't follow I'm also usually impressed with its tennis coverage. Speaking of which OSM is a MUST-BUY this weekend! Elena Dementieva is the cover star and the lead feature is all about RUSSIAN TENNIS OMGOMGOMG

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

OSM is generally pretty good, but I am 100% totally its target i.e. middle-class newcomer to liking sports.

Music To Eat

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

So by analogy OFM's target = middle-class newcomers to hosting dinner parties? Or is that OMM's target? arf

[zenith.livejournal.com]

There's also this total inability to not be po-faced, even when supposedly there are pieces in which try to be funny. It's like Q with slightly less obviously conservative politics. It taints everything that's covered in an issue, and when that approach maps onto acts who lean that way anyway - HELLO THE ARCADE FIRE* - the result is just snooze to the power of zzzzzz.

*Piece written by Paul Morley, unquestioning of the band's typical blathering about making music that means something not like all that shitty pop music, much in the manner of his U2 hagiography... I hope the money's good, at least.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Oh and I buy Mixmag when there's a good free CD and/or looks like it's got something I want to read in it. See also DJ and very, very occasionally (ie: in incredibly extreme train circumstances) Kerrang! but this always leads to the print equivalent of KFC guilt. I hadn't realised how much print stuff I actually read until I thought about it, actually.

However, blogs etc. are free and usually better so print is really only for reading on the loo or a train.