Altar Native - Featuring indie and national bands, reviews, interviews, local music news, and more.
Alternate Music Press - A leading online magazine of new music, MP3, alternate music press, acoustic, ambient, bluegrass, blues, celtic, classical, electronic, folk.
antiMUSIC - Fan interactive rock news, views, reviews and interviews.
Art Attack - The publication for and about liberation musicians in New York City. Resources for musicians (grants, prizes, funding, health care, housing, legal rights, scholarships, etc.); listings of concerts & special events for music lovers.
Barfly - Entertainment guide to Cairns. News and reviews of bands, CDs, films, books and interviews.
BBC Music - Daily news, reviews, features and links.
BBgun Magazine - Ex-Sonic Younth drummer Bob Bert and Linda Wolfe's print zine.
Beat - Australian music magazine explores modern music scene at home and abroad.
Banjo Newsletter -
A monthly 32-page magazine covering all aspects of the 5-string banjo. Started by Hub Nitchie and his wife Nancy in 1973, BNL is now published by his two sons Donald and Spencer.
BestMusicZines.com - Guide tomusic magazines and zines: Pop Culture, Jazz-Folk-Blues, Country, Metal, Punk, Hip Hop, Experimental, World Music, Variety, Songwriters, Indie Radio.
Cadence - Packed with complete English language coverage of the entire jazz and improvised music scenes. Every issue of Cadence Magazine features substantive interviews and oral histories news, and about 200 editorially independent reviews.
Careless Talk Costs Lives - Created by legendary music critic Everett True and maverick photographer Steve Gullick, with the help of an incredibly talented supporting cast.
Clicks And Klangs - A collection of original writings about adventurous music of all kinds, from Captain Beefheart and beyond.
CMJ New Music Report - For radio programmers and record industry executives alike, CMJ New Music Report, published weekly, is their primary source for up-to-the-minute radio airplay data, and cutting-edge new music editorial.
Cool and Strange Music Magazine - A quarterly publication, aimed toward devotees of 'Incredibly Strange Music,' Exotica, Space Age Bachelor Pad, Lounge, Swing, Surf, Comedy, Electronic, and offbeat LP covers. Copper Press - Independent music, pop culture, skateboarding, and whatever else they feel motivated to cover.
Culture Kiosque - News, features, criticism and interviews about art exhibitions, concerts, opera stars, jazz, dance, international cuisine and technology in English, French and/or German.
Dauntless Productions - A community of independent musicians, artists, fans, products and services fostering a grass-roots organization based on encouragement in a non-competitive e-zine forum.
Fact - Published quarterly, and available for free from independent record stores and selected clothing outlets in the UK and Europe, FACT is a music and street culture magazine.
Guitar World - Gear and equipment reviews, lessons, albums, interviews.
halana - Avant garde, free jazz, and creative music and composer interviews and reviews.
Hyyebot.com - Daily news and commentary on the music industry and the technology and social media that drives it, for music industry professionals, indie labels, d.i.y. musicians and everyone who cares about music.
Ink Blot - Music reviews, album reviews, news, band interviews.
Impose -
An independent media outlet based in Brooklyn, with a widely-respected read on America's independent music and cultural landscape. Originally founded in 2002 as a print magazine, it has grown to include a daily-updated website, a video website, a globally-distributed record label, and national events of all sizes.
Journal of American Folklore -
The quarterly journal of the American Folklore Society since the Society's founding in 1888, publishes scholarly articles, essays, notes, and commentaries directed to a wide audience, as well as separate sections devoted to reviews of books, exhibitions and events, sound recordings, film and videotapes, and exhibitions and events.
Joy - Music ezine featuring reviews and interviews with the likes of Six by Seven, Fonda 500, Black Nielson, The Rocks and Special Needs.
Julliard Journal Online - The Juilliard Journal is published eight times a year from September through May. Each issue contains a variety of articles about events at the School, activities of alumni, and other matters of interest to members of the Juilliard community.
Latch Music/The Zine - Dave Latchaw's music ezine for independent musicians and fans of music.
Latin American Music Review (LAMR) - Explores the historical, ethnographic,and sociocultural dimensions of Latin American music in Latin American social groups, including the Puerto Rican, Mexican, Cuban, and Portugese populations in the United States.
Leonardo Music Journal - Devoted to the aesthetic and technical issues in contemporary music and sonic arts.
NME - The biggest-selling weekly music magazine in Britain. Featuring agenda-setting news, the UK's most comprehensive gig guide, definitive reviews of the week's hottest gigs, tracks and albums and exclusive interviews with the most important bands around, it's the Bible of every young music fan.
NPR Music - Live concerts, studio sessions, interviews and profiles, blog, news and reviews, browse artists, discover songs.
offBEAT - New Orleans' and Louisiana's music magazine.
One Final Note - A quarterly journal dedicated to improvisation and all things related, including but not limited to music known as free jazz, avant-garde jazz, new music, Great Black Music, ecstatic jazz.
Ongaku Otaku - Japanese independent bands and culture.
Plan B -
Plan B was an independent music and culture magazine that ran from 2004 to 2009. During its lifespan it covered emerging, overlooked and mainstream music with idiosyncratic, challenging writing and stunning photography and illustration throughout, giving early and valuable exposure to many new musicians, writers and artists. Download PDFs of all 46 back issues of Plan B.
Planet Verge - Covers unsigned punk bands, in addition to featuring interviews with national acts.
Rock and Rap Confidential - Monthly music and politics newsletter. Covers culture and politics, funk and country, hiphop and heavy metal, racism and revolution, jazz and reggae, folk music and ska, censorship and the phony war on drugs.
Rock's Backpages -
The ultimate rock & roll library online – an ever-growingarchive of legendary interviews, classic features, and groundbreaking reviews by the best rock writers of all time.
RoJaRo Index (Rock Jazz Roots etc.) - Searchable key to articles, discographies, live-/ record-reviews etc published in the music press worldwide including fanzines from January 1992 to now.
Rolling Stone - Rock and contemporary music magazine.
RootsWorld - World music magaine: Africa, Asia, Europe, Pacifica and The Americas, the roots of the global musical milieu that has come to be known as world music, be it traditional folk music, jazz, rock or some hybrid.
Rubberneck - Experimental music magazine in Britain, specialising in improvised musics (improv to its friends), free jazz, avant-garde rock, electroacoustic and contemporary composition; film music is also an interest.
SeneRAP.org - African Hip Hop news magazine of Dakar, Senegal.
Signal To Noise - A nationally distributed, quarterly publication focusing on the confluence of avant-garde jazz, electro-acoustic improvisation and left-of-center modern rock, with an emphasis on independent production and promotion.
Sing Out! -
Publishes Sing Out! Magazine, folksong collections (including 'Rise Up Singing') and maintains a collection of folk music research materials.
Sinkhole - Experimental electronic music magazine.
Slant Magazine - Webzine featuring reviews and articles on current and classic film and music, interviews, album chart information, box office predictions and DVD coverage.
Songlines (UK) -
World music magazine. News, reviews and concert listings.
Sound, The - Local Texas performing and visual arts scene.
Soundgenerator - Breaking music news, features & interviews, worldwide charts. Extensive UK music industry database: search for bands, studios, record and publishing companies.
Soundlist - E-mail newsletter devoted to announcements of free-improvisation, experimental music and sound art events in the Toronto, Canada area.
Tablet: Music - A bi-weekly publication dedicated to promoting emerging music, art and political communities of the Northwest and beyond.
Tartarean Desire Webzine - Metal and dark music with reviews, interviews, sound samples, and link directories.
Tentacle, The - Information on non-mainstream creative music in the Pacific Northwest: exploratory jazz, free improvisation, new composition, electronic music, sonic exploration, multimedia performance, noise, and avant rock.
Wire, The - Adventurous coverage of electronica, avant rock, breakbeat, jazz, modern classical, global and sounds from the outer limits. Also, see The Wire Links for artists, record label, festival, net radio, zine and publishing, organizations, and related non-music resources.
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