Formatted like a normal vertical, Down Beat magazine for all intents and purposes appeared to be just another music magazine that covered jazz, blues and beyond. That is, until you opened its pages and then it became a totally different animal, as it folded open and flipped to a newspaper format, complete with a headline. The magazine was established in Chicago in and was named after the downbeat in music, or the first beat of a musical measure.
It was published monthly by Maher Publications and is still being published today. Something that was sure to give people pause and to purchase the magazine. There were newspaper-style articles such as Influenza, In Flew Dinah catchy headline all about Dinah Washington being stricken ill at her closing performance in Honolulu. Making good in the pulp fiction market, Goodman knew his way around Hollywood gossip mags too.
And Filmland offered the best in Hollywood news and images. From Shelley Winters to Janet Leigh, the magazine covered fan favorites every month. And with Goodman launching what would one day become Marvel comics, he certainly was no stranger to success in all genres. The cover teased with Hundreds of New and Intimate Pictures and the stories inside ranged from Roy Rogers and his hero status to Dean Martin and his wife.
And with actress Susan Hayward on the cover, the magazine was a complete fan have-to-have. The magazine was among the longest-lasting American music magazines, not ceasing publication until The title referred to the pre-music charts hit parade, so the magazine began as a song lyric phenom where people could go to find the correct words to their favorite songs.
The golden age for Chaparral parodies was the s and they were very good at it. Maudlin Screen was of course a parody of Modern Screen and was an amusing clone of the Hollywood Fan magazine.
The stories were zany and outrageous: love-starved women of America, garbage collectors becoming cinema sensations and just all around unbelievable content. Far-fetched, funny and really smartly done. You are commenting using your WordPress. Magazines rise and fall. They lose relevance, their founders move on, or get revamped or shut down by new owners.
Some speak for their generation, then the next generation finds a way to speak for themselves. The internet has shaped how current generations speak about music. Before the internet, when people bought records, tapes, and CDs, they found new music from professional music critics, record store clerks, MTV, and word of mouth.
This meant that record labels needed magazines to advertise their newest offerings. Labels hung big promotional posters in record stores, and chains like Tower and Virgin had sizeable magazines racks.
If you wanted to know if the mainstream albums that just came out were good, you read Option , which ran hundreds of reviews. One issue I have contains 37 pages of album reviews, five pages dedicated to cassette reviews, and a six-page ad from SST records! Sign up. Rabid has run his rock magazine The Big Takeover since , and he believes the mainstream adoption of the internet in the mid s irrevocably changed our listening habits.
Instead of buying albums, we could listen to songs online and download them on file-sharing sites. It was fantastic, but it also crippled the music industry: Album sales declined and record label budgets plummeted, which meant they had less to spend on print ads for promotion. The listening public quickly got used to getting music and news for free, and many became less willing to regularly pay for things. And that not only hurt mags; most of all, it hurt the stores we counted on to sell us, especially the sort of indie book and record stores and magazine racks all over the country that went out of business the last 20 years.
We lost half our sales over the last 15—20 years to such closings, half of them to Tower, Virgin, Hastings, etcetera, and most of all Borders, but the other half to little mom and pop concerns that were the lifeblood of their communities and offered something more tangible culturally and socially than the more passive net.
The internet freed information from specialists. Why do you need a magazine to tell you what Wikipedia and blogs can for free? As is waiting months for a new album to drop. Some of those I spoke with for this piece, like DiGenti, also believe digital natives read less in general.
You had to visit record stores to hunt for it or ask your cool older sister for recommendations, fleeing when she caught you pillaging her record collection while she was in the shower. How could any one person claim a universal authority over all of that? We find our people and identify with a group, and music provides a particular plumage to advertise our tastes and tribal affiliation — be it punk or pop or hip-hop.
Then in high school I had a group of girlfriends who were all very invested in what was happening in music at the time, and we wrote and performed poetry different places. Online chat rooms, Twitter, Facebook, and blogs reduced the role magazines played in exchanging information and constructing identities. Music is air. Reading a music magazine, at this point, might be like reading about air, and no one would do that. But even for those of us who still liked reading about air, reading habits have changed, and print struggled to compete with expanding online coverage.
Access to personal computers became more common in the early s, and people began reading more online. Some magazines were quick to transition. Ex— Rolling Stone staffer Michael Goldberg capitalized on this shift by launching the first online multimedia music magazine Addicted to Noise in his bedroom in Reviews had become consumer reports. I wanted that.
One such adopter was Ryan Schreiber, a recent high school graduate who founded Pitchfork in as a music news and reviews site. Another was Sara Zupko founded PopMatters in to cover all forms of culture. But by the Great Recession, many web-savvy tastemakers had expanded upon the medium, launching music blogs — aka audioblogs or mp3 blogs — like Fluxblog, Stereogum, Aquarium Drunkard, Brooklyn Vegan, Gorilla vs.
Bear, and Tiny Mix Tapes. Bloggers could respond to breaking news and post reviews more quickly than print journalists. Rather than a business, this was often pleasure; many blogs eschewed advertising completely, and the model was dependent on creating communities explicitly through sharing favorite songs.
Besides a new publishing model, one unique thing blogs offered was music itself. The internet created a frontier where consumer desires were no longer clear. Did people want stories anymore or just brief posts? Did they want playlists instead of album reviews? As reading habits changed during the early s, the issue of what exactly people will pay for emerged. So did the issue of how we read online, for free or not. Theorists feared technology had ruined us.
Some cultural critics diagnosed us all with ADHD, no longer able to focus on stories. But something about the bound nature of the magazine encourages getting pulled into a story, and staying with it until the end.
I found lots of amateurish sentences, bland takes, adolescent humor, insider jargon, and writers rehashing the narrative that publicists sent.
You don't go to Billboard for criticism in reviews or for witty writing. However, the extensive chart data makes it the weekly magazine of record for popular music worldwide. In recent years, the magazine has reached out beyond the industry to pop music consumers more than ever in the past.
Billboard host annual music awards as well as a wide range of other music industry events. The flagship Billboard chart is the Hot list of the most popular songs.
It dates back to Billboard also publishes a weekly chart of the Top most popular albums. Online archives of the magazine are maintained online dating back to Entertainment Weekly has only been in existence since and is therefore still a relative newcomer to the world of popular music reporting. However, although its broad focus includes film, TV, books, and video as well as music, the access EW writers and reviewers receive the magazine's parent company is entertainment behemoth Time Warner makes their insight worth reading.
Also, outside of music industry bible Billboard , Entertainment Weekly is the only mass market US publication bringing fans music news in paper form on a weekly basis. The magazine's website has been ranked as one of the top 10 most popular entertainment news destinations. Unlike Billboard , the primary audience for Entertainment Weekly is entertainment consumers.
A ranking listed Entertainment Weekly as the seventh most popular entertainment news property in the US. More than one million readers visit the magazine's website daily. Hits is a music trade publication that was initially launched in It was created by individuals who previously worked in music promotion. The magazine's website Hits Daily Double began in It includes up to the minute rumors and news in the music industry. Hits presents stories with an irreverent and insider point of view.
Hits republishes charts from a variety of sources including Vevo, Shazaam, and Mediabase. Insiders consider it one of the music industry's most reliable tip sheets. Mojo was launched in by the publishers who brought us Q. It is a British music magazine that focuses on past rock and pop artists. It is well known for publishing top lists in a wide range of topics. Mojo has also published a series of well-received special editions about topics ranging from Pink Floyd to punk music.
Mojo isn't exclusively about classic rock. It has earned acclaim for an early focus on such relevant artists as the White Stripes. Mojo helped inspire the creation of the magazines Blender and Uncut. Blender , in particular, focused on music lists and ceased publication in Music Week is roughly the UK equivalent of Billboard.
It is a trade magazine for the music industry in the UK.
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