List of music magazines
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This is an alphabetical listing of notable music magazine
Music magazine
A music magazine is a magazine dedicated to music and music culture. Such magazines typically include music news, interviews, photo shoots, essays, record reviews, concert reviews and occasionally have a covermount with recorded music.-Notable music magazines:...

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  • Bass Player
    Bass Player (magazine)
    Bass Player is a popular magazine for bassists. Each issue offers a variety of artist interviews, lessons, equipment reviews, and a complete transcribed bass line from a popular song...

  • Big Cheese
    Big Cheese (magazine)
    Big Cheese is an independent British magazine which covers alternative music including rock, punk, and metal amongst others. It is circulated monthly.-Features:...

  • The Big Takeover
    The Big Takeover
    The Big Takeover is a bi-annual music magazine published out of New York City since 1980 by critic Jack Rabid.-Overview:The Big T usually appears in June and December, with most recent issues coming in around 200 pages. The review section, featuring Jack’s Top 40 for the issue, is regularly 60-80...

  • Billboard
    Billboard (magazine)
    Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

  • Black Velvet
    Black Velvet (magazine)
    Black Velvet is a quarterly independent rock magazine based in the UK.The zine originated in 1994 and is published/edited by Shari Black Velvet. The zine includes in-depth interviews, CD, concert and zine reviews and more...

  • Blender
    Blender (magazine)
    Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more". It was also known for sometimes steamy pictorials of celebrities....

  • Blunt
  • Blues Revue
  • bma
    Bma magazine
    BMA Magazine is an Australian street press and music magazine focusing on popular music, concerts, live events and popular culture in Canberra and surrounding areas. It is published fortnightly and is an independent publication.-Profile:...

  • Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles
    Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles
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  • Blitz
    Blitz (newspaper)
    Blitz is a Portuguese music newspaper. It was founded in November 1984.In July 2002, the newspaper was acquired by Impresa, which gave the newspaper access to more advanced technology, like color treatment, starting a new phase in the life of the newspaper....

  • Blue Jean

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  • Cadence
  • Circus
    Circus (magazine)
    Circus was a monthly American magazine devoted to rock music. It was published from 1966 to 2006. In its heyday the magazine had a full-time editorial staff that included some of the biggest names in rock journalism, including Paul Nelson, David Fricke, and Kurt Loder, and rivaled Rolling Stone in...

  • hamber Music America (magazine)]
  • Clash
    Clash (magazine)
    Clash is a popular music and fashion magazine based in the United Kingdom. Its magazine title is published 12 times a year. It has a circulation of around 40,000....

  • CMJ New Music Monthly
    CMJ New Music Monthly
    CMJ New Music Monthly was a monthly music magazine with interviews, reviews, and special features. Each issue included a compact disc with 15 to 24 songs by well established bands, unsigned bands, and everything in between...

  • CMJ New Music Report
  • Country Weekly
    Country Weekly
    Country Weekly is an American tabloid style weekly magazine established in 1994. The magazine focuses on country music stars and events, and regularly features exclusive interviews with recording artists and country music news...

  • Creem
    Creem
    Creem , "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine," was a monthly rock 'n' roll publication first published in March 1969 by Barry Kramer and founding editor Tony Reay. It suspended production in 1989 but received a short-lived renaissance in the early 1990s as a glossy tabloid...

  • Cyclic Defrost
    Cyclic Defrost
    Cyclic Defrost is Australia's only specialist electronic music magazine. It is edited by Sebastian Chan, Shaun Prescott and Alexandra Savvides, and covers independent electronic music, avant-rock, experimental sound art and left field hip hop....


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  • Decibel
  • Diapason
    Diapason (magazine)
    Diapason is a monthly magazine published in French by Italian media group, Mondadori. It focuses on classical music, especially classical music recordings and hi-fi...

  • DJ Magazine
  • Drum Media
    Drum Media
    Drum Media is a free weekly tabloid-sized music and lifestyle magazine established in 1990 and based in Sydney, Australia. It is distributed throughout Sydney, Wollongong, Newcastle and Canberra, and surrounding districts. A separate weekly issue began circulating in Perth in September 2006. The...


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  • Gamut: The Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic
    Gamut: The Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic
    Gamut is a peer-reviewed academic journal specializing in music theory and analysis. It is a fully online journal, sponsored by the and published by , a digital imprint of the University of Tennessee Libraries...

  • Goldmine Magazine (The Collectors Record and Compact Disc Marketplace)
    Goldmine (magazine)
    Goldmine, established in 1974, is an American magazine that focuses on the collectors' market for records, tapes, CDs, and music-related memorabilia. Each issue features news articles, interviews, discographies, histories, current reviews on recording stars of the past and present. Discographies...

  • Guitar Player
  • Guitar World
    Guitar World
    Guitar World is a monthly music magazine devoted to guitarists. It contains original interviews, album and gear reviews and guitar and bass tablature of approximately five songs each month. The magazine is published 13 times per year...

  • Guitarist
    Guitarist (magazine)
    Guitarist is a monthly music making magazine published by Future Publishing in the United Kingdom. The magazine features reviews of newly released guitars, amplifiers and other equipment, plus interviews with guitar players, features on the guitar industry, news articles, and features on playing...


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  • Magnet
    Magnet (magazine)
    Magnet is a music magazine which generally focuses on alternative, independent, or out-of-the-mainstream bands.-History:The magazine is published four times a year, and is independently owned and edited by Eric T. Miller. Music magazines with a similar focus in the 1990s era included Option,...

  • Metal Hammer
    Metal Hammer
    Metal Hammer is a monthly heavy metal music magazine published in the United Kingdom by Future Publishing, and in several other countries by different publishers. Metal Hammer articles feature both mainstream bands and more unusual acts from the whole spectrum of heavy metal music...

  • Mixmag
    Mixmag
    Mixmag is a British dance music and clubbing magazine. It styles itself as "the world's biggest selling dance music magazine", with an Audit Bureau of Circulations audited circulation of approximately 21,250...

  • Mojo
    Mojo (magazine)
    MOJO is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom. Following the success of the magazine Q, publishers Emap were looking for a title which would cater for the burgeoning interest in classic rock music...

  • Muzique Magazine

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  • Ray Gun
    Ray Gun (magazine)
    Ray Gun was an American alternative rock-and-roll magazine, first published in 1992 in Santa Monica, California. Led by founding art director David Carson, Ray Gun explored experimental magazine typographic design. The result was a chaotic, abstract style, not always readable, but distinctive in...

  • Relix
    Relix
    Relix magazine was launched in 1974 as newsletter devoted to connecting people who recorded Grateful Dead concerts. It rapidly expanded into a music magazine covering a wide amount of artists...

  • Resident Advisor
    Resident Advisor
    Resident Advisor is an online electronic music magazine dedicated to the global dance music scene. The website won a People's Voice award in the 12th Annual Webby Awards in 2008.-Site History:...

  • Revolver
    Revolver (magazine)
    Revolver is a bi-monthly rock and heavy metal magazine published by Future US. Before covering heavy metal, rock & hard rock solely, it was a more mainstream oriented magazine. The magazine is structured in a manner similar to publications such as Spin while covering many avenues within the heavy...

  • Rhythm
    Rhythm
    Rhythm may be generally defined as a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions." This general meaning of regular recurrence or pattern in time may be applied to a wide variety of cyclical natural phenomena having a periodicity or...

  • Rock-A-Rolla
  • Rock Sound
    Rock Sound
    Rock Sound is a British magazine which champions rock music. The magazine aims at being more "underground" and less commercial, whilst also giving coverage to more well known acts.-History:...

  • Rolling Stone
    Rolling Stone
    Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

  • RSQ
    RSQ (magazine)
    RSQ was a Slovene music magazine published monthly.At first RSQ was only a digital/internet magazine that tried to fill the gap in Slovenian music magazines....


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  • Screamer Magazine
    Screamer magazine
    Screamer Magazine, "The Loudest Mag On The Planet," was created by David F. Castagno in October 1987. The publication started out as a vehicle in which to promote local rock bands in the Los Angeles area. The magazine's popularity spread quickly and almost immediately garnered the attention of many...

  • Shindig! magazine
  • The Score Magazine
    The Score Magazine
    The Score Magazine is India's only indigenous pan-genre music magazine . The magazine is published for distribution across India and online subscription. It is owned by Score Media Pvt Ltd and is their flagship product, the other being HighOnScore.com...

  • Select
  • Signal to Noise
    Signal to Noise
    Signal to Noise is a graphic novel written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean. It was originally serialised in the UK style magazine The Face, beginning in 1989, and collected as a graphic novel in 1992, published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in the UK and by Dark Horse Comics in the US.The...

  • The Situation
    The Situation
    The Situation can refer to:*The Situation , a 2007 film*Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino, a cast member on the MTV reality show Jersey Shore*The former name of the MSNBC show Tucker*The Situation Room, a newscast on CNN...

  • Smash Hits
    Smash Hits
    Smash Hits was a pop music based magazine, aimed at teenagers and young adults and originally published in the United Kingdom by EMAP. It ran from 1978 to 2006 and was issued fortnightly for most of that time...

  • Sound on Sound
    Sound on Sound
    Sound on Sound is an independently-owned monthly music technology magazine published by SOS Publications Group, based in Cambridge, UK. The magazine includes product tests of electronic musical performance and recording devices, and interviews with industry professionals...

  • Sounds
    Sounds (magazine)
    Sounds was a long-term British music paper, published weekly from 10 October 1970 – 6 April 1991. It was produced by Spotlight Publications , which was set up by Jack Hutton and Peter Wilkinson, who left "Melody Maker" to start their own company...

  • SPIN
    Spin (magazine)
    Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr.-History:In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college-oriented rock music and on the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard...

  • The Source
    The Source (magazine)
    The Source is a United States-based, monthly full-color magazine covering hip-hop music, politics, and culture, founded in 1988. It is the world's second longest running rap periodical, behind United Kingdom-based publication Hip Hop Connection. The Source was founded as a newsletter in 1988...


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  • Terrorizer
  • Theory and Practice
    Theory and Practice
    Theory and Practice is a peer-reviewed academic journal specializing in music theory and analysis. It is the annual journal of the Music Theory Society of New York State, which was "[t]he first regional theory organization" in the U.S., having "held its initial meeting in 1971 at the Eastman...

  • Top 40 Music Magazine
    Top 40 Music Magazine
    right|thumb|150px|Issue 5, Feb. 1985Top 40 Music Magazine was an English-language South African monthly music magazine published nationwide in print form between 1984 and 2002....

  • Top of the Pops
    Top of the Pops (magazine)
    Top of the Pops magazine is a monthly publication published by BBC Magazines. It features chart information, star gossip, fashion and beauty advice, quizzes, song lyrics and posters. It is a supplementary magazine for the TV show Top of the Pops....

  • Total Guitar
    Total Guitar
    Total Guitar is a monthly magazine based in the United Kingdom. The magazine is the best selling guitar magazine in Europe.The magazine is owned by Future Publishing, who publish many other magazines ranging from drums and video games to mountain bikes and knitting magazines.Total Guitar regularly...

  • Trouser Press
    Trouser Press
    Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow Who fan Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" ...


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  • Uncut
    UNCUT (magazine)
    Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London. It is available across the English-speaking world, and focuses on music, but also includes film and books sections...

  • URB
  • Under the Radar
    Under the Radar (magazine)
    Under the Radar is an American magazine that bills itself as "The solution to music pollution" and features interviews with accompanying photo-shoots. Each issue includes opinion and commentary of the Indie music scene as well as reviews on books, DVDs and albums.Items are reviewed based on a...

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