From: EPulse@marketing.towerrecords.com Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 08:59:46 -0800
Last week, Tower Records announced the closure of Pulse! magazine, after 19 years of continuous publication. The final issue of Pulse! will be December 2002, due in Tower stores on the last Friday of November.
Guess it's a victim of both Tower's financial troubles and declining print circulations (even for a freebie). Wish I could be sadder but Pulse has definitely been declining over the past two or three years. There's still something of interest but the eccentric 'n' half-demented columns, reviews of things like Euro-improv or obscure indies, and of course nearly all classical coverage are long gone. I even wrote a few pieces for them (Marshall Crenshaw on rock movies, Chuck Jones interview, Peter Stampfel, punk buyers guide, trivia questions back when they ran contests) and it was always a blast having editors like Marc Weidenbaum who were really enthusiastic and open-minded. Well I guess we've still got Blender, right? LT ----------------------------- "It's people like us who took a mass medium and made it what it is today--a subculture." Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons The Funhouse Journal http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/blog/journal.htm
on 11/25/02 8:34 PM, Lang Thompson at wlt4@mindspring.com wrote:
it was always a blast having editors like Marc Weidenbaum who were really enthusiastic and open-minded
Weidenbaum was and is one of the most undervalued guys in music journalism. Heroically open-minded, and one of the most patient and incisive editors I've ever known. sh
Too bad about Pulse. It was one of the few magazines that tried to cover most styles of music. I still miss Option after all these years because of its broad coverage. Can anyone recommend some good magazines that decently cover several musical genres mabye video too? -Dave P.S. Are you serious about Blender? From their web site, it looks like Maxim's entertainment magazine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lang Thompson" <wlt4@mindspring.com> To: <zorn-list@lists.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 9:34 PM Subject: RIP: Pulse magazine
From: EPulse@marketing.towerrecords.com Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 08:59:46 -0800
Last week, Tower Records announced the closure of Pulse! magazine, after 19 years of continuous publication. The final issue of Pulse! will be December 2002, due in Tower stores on the last Friday of November.
Guess it's a victim of both Tower's financial troubles and declining print circulations (even for a freebie). Wish I could be sadder but Pulse has definitely been declining over the past two or three years. There's still something of interest but the eccentric 'n' half-demented columns, reviews of things like Euro-improv or obscure indies, and of course nearly all classical coverage are long gone. I even wrote a few pieces for them (Marshall Crenshaw on rock movies, Chuck Jones interview, Peter Stampfel, punk buyers guide, trivia questions back when they ran contests) and it
was
always a blast having editors like Marc Weidenbaum who were really enthusiastic and open-minded. Well I guess we've still got Blender, right?
LT
----------------------------- "It's people like us who took a mass medium and made it what it is today--a subculture."
Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons
The Funhouse Journal http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/blog/journal.htm
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P.S. Are you serious about Blender? From their web site, it looks like Maxim's entertainment magazine.
Yes, a Maxim mag, and no, not serious. I've never looked through an issue but it seems completely uninteresting. Could be wrong though but in any case certainly no substitute for even a watered-down Pulse. Music mags I'd recommend are: The Wire Mojo Songlines and sometimes: Jazziz (declining a bit recently too) Downbeat (most of the time) BBC Music Magnet Fanfare used to be quite good but I haven't seen it in a while and Gramophone still has some decent material. For videos/film highly recommended are Video Watchdog, Film Comment, Sight & Sound and if you read French Positif and sometimes Cahiers du Cinema. ----------------------------- "It's people like us who took a mass medium and made it what it is today--a subculture." Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons The Funhouse Journal http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/blog/journal.htm
Hello, ....some mag recs that Lang didn't already mention: Music Coda- though it disappeared from my newsstand about a year ago Sound Collector Audio Review- great cross-section of genres covered. I especially enjoyed last issues review of Jabbo Smith. Badaboom Gramophone and Sound Collector- book format, w/ free CDs. Film Cineaste- shares some writers w/ Film comment, the excellent Jonathan Rosenbaum in particular, and it features a nice mixture of old and new, foreign and American, genre and art cinema. Books Book Forum- cheap and loaded w/ stuff, and a great way to catch established authors reviewing a wide variety of stuff. I also like Guy Davenport's "New Books" Column in "Harpers" whenever I catch it. I remain.... Joseph NP: Loren Mazzacane Conners- "Evangeline" CD NR: Dave Eggers- "You Shall Know Our Velocity" -----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Lang Thompson Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 11:45 PM To: zorn-list@lists.xmission.com Subject: Re: Pulse magazine (magazine recs?)
P.S. Are you serious about Blender? From their web site, it looks like Maxim's entertainment magazine.
Yes, a Maxim mag, and no, not serious. I've never looked through an issue but it seems completely uninteresting. Could be wrong though but in any case certainly no substitute for even a watered-down Pulse. Music mags I'd recommend are: The Wire Mojo Songlines and sometimes: Jazziz (declining a bit recently too) Downbeat (most of the time) BBC Music Magnet Fanfare used to be quite good but I haven't seen it in a while and Gramophone still has some decent material. For videos/film highly recommended are Video Watchdog, Film Comment, Sight & Sound and if you read French Positif and sometimes Cahiers du Cinema. ----------------------------- "It's people like us who took a mass medium and made it what it is today--a subculture." Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons The Funhouse Journal http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/blog/journal.htm _______________________________________________ zorn-list mailing list zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com To UNSUBSCRIBE or Change Your Subscription Options, go to the webpage below http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list
I also like Guy Davenport's "New Books" Column in "Harpers" whenever I catch it.
Wow, I'll have to check that out. I love Davenport's criticism (his fiction is interesting but rarely more than that) and haven't seen any in quite some time.
I still buy MOJO, Downbeat, and a few fanzines every month. MOJO still rules as best magazine to keep in the bathroom, plus best crossword puzzle. Pulse kind of peaked out by about 1997 in most ways. I still miss Musician and the new York Rocker most of all, tho. sh
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:03:45 -0800 skip Heller wrote:
I still buy MOJO, Downbeat, and a few fanzines every month. MOJO still rules as best magazine to keep in the bathroom, plus best crossword puzzle. Pulse kind of peaked out by about 1997 in most ways.
But MOJO is almost 100% nostalgia-based. I like the Beatles, the Stones, etc like everybody else but reading the magazine you almost wonder if any music done in the past twenty years is even worth talking about. At least, reading MOJO, I don't feel lost :-). Patrice.
on 11/27/02 8:47 AM, Patrice L. Roussel at proussel@ichips.intel.com wrote:
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:03:45 -0800 skip Heller wrote:
I still buy MOJO, Downbeat, and a few fanzines every month. MOJO still rules as best magazine to keep in the bathroom, plus best crossword puzzle. Pulse kind of peaked out by about 1997 in most ways.
But MOJO is almost 100% nostalgia-based. I like the Beatles, the Stones, etc like everybody else but reading the magazine you almost wonder if any music done in the past twenty years is even worth talking about.
At least, reading MOJO, I don't feel lost :-).
Patrice.
I just never get tired of a lot of that stuff. I'll read about the Sex Pistols forever. And, actually, their record reviews take in way more than most. sh
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