I fail to remember exactly what happened to this magazine — I think it was swallowed up by one of it’s rivals — The NME if memory serves correctly. I know with these articles I should sit there on wiki and painstakingly research stuff but they are, after all, supposed to be opinion pieces and [...]
March 26, 2008
Categories: blogging, culture vulture, magazine graveyard, magazines, music, theories, updates . Tags: magazine graveyard, music magazines, out of print, vox magazine . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
It led the way in a lot of respects — taught people what a culture magazine could be and it taught with style. At one point The Face could have been considered a setter of trends, a creator of them, but there was some kind of imperceptible shift and suddenly it seemed to be running [...]
March 25, 2008
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OK, so it’s not dead yet, but God, considering what it’s become it should be. I used to love this magazine then we had a run where they had Cliff Richard, Ronan Keating and the Spice Girls on the front cover and I would cringe with embarassment walking out of the shop with the bloody [...]
March 20, 2008
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The notice on the website of this now defunct magazine has to be one of the saddest things ever. Just before it died, in common with a couple of the other magazines I intend to feature under this umbrella there was a format change and goddamned if I know why it died shortly after. It’s [...]
March 20, 2008
Categories: art, blogging, level magazine, magazine graveyard, magazines, papershop, updates . Tags: cardigans, culture, johnny knoxville, level magazine, magazine graveyard, magazines . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
God, how I miss this magazine. I had to hunt for it — weirdly Suffolk was strangely backwards when it came to stocking anything thought of as vaguely dodgy. How do I know that they thought of it this way? Because, as with almost every publication I bought, they would start giggling when they talked [...]
March 19, 2008
Categories: Obscenity, art, artists, blogging, culture vulture, ideas, magazine graveyard, magazines, papershop, political, ramblings, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: cher guevara, culture, magazine graveyard, magazines, sleazenation . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments