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Prem
09/14/08, 04:13 PM
Looking into getting a subscription... for something to do during class. :P
cymche
09/14/08, 04:16 PM
It has lots of nice pictures.
nonamesleft
09/14/08, 04:18 PM
I like it, but I like Q magazine even better.
Genuma
09/14/08, 04:25 PM
No.
funkel
09/14/08, 04:57 PM
Very pompous and arrogant. And sarcastic.
Their writing style annoys me.
sofriggencool
09/14/08, 05:44 PM
no not especially. occasionally ill read an article but theres too much bullshit.
go with ap
FeynmanWannabe
09/14/08, 06:03 PM
no not especially. occasionally ill read an article but theres too much bullshit.
go with ap lol
IWasaCamera
09/14/08, 09:34 PM
No, it is not.
thesafeword
09/14/08, 09:40 PM
If you want to look like you know nothing about music other than what's on the radio, then sure, subscribe to it.
EchoPark
09/14/08, 10:08 PM
In a word, No.
Ouch
09/14/08, 10:09 PM
music mags mostly suck as a whole.
Getup and Dance
09/14/08, 10:09 PM
get playboy.
SanePsychotic
09/14/08, 10:43 PM
No. And don't go with AP either.
versus_god
09/14/08, 10:54 PM
Razorcaaaaaaake
shit stroll
09/14/08, 10:57 PM
razorblaaaaades
versus_god
09/14/08, 10:59 PM
razorblaaaaades your words are so sharp with haaaaaaaate
shit stroll
09/14/08, 11:05 PM
god bless your superstition, versus god.
Jumpoff
09/15/08, 08:06 AM
Sign up for XXL/THe Source. Equally shitty magazines but at least they have an eye candy section?
Anthony Lutz
09/15/08, 08:09 AM
I used to have a subscription, if you're really big into indie, then it's the magazine for you.
underthetalking
09/15/08, 09:14 AM
no not especially. occasionally ill read an article but theres too much bullshit.

Everything was fine and dandy until...

go with ap

Whaaaaaa?!
OdeToTheSun
09/15/08, 09:56 AM
music mags mostly suck as a whole.
QFT
funkel
09/15/08, 11:19 AM
I cannot think of any good music magazines.
I enjoy Paste.
IWasaCamera
09/15/08, 12:04 PM
Paste is decent for the most part.
summer skin
09/15/08, 12:51 PM
My favorite music magazine is called "The Fucking Internet" It's really good, free, and has up to the minute updates. All you have to do is hit alt+F5 to subscribe.
funkel
09/15/08, 01:08 PM
My favorite music magazine is called "The Fucking Internet" It's really good, free, and has up to the minute updates. All you have to do is hit alt+F5 to subscribe.
Don't you mean Alt+F4?
summer skin
09/15/08, 01:11 PM
Don't you mean Alt+F4?
No that's to unsubscribe you dolt.
funkel
09/15/08, 08:05 PM
No that's to unsubscribe you dolt.
My mistake.
SoggY ThE OnE
09/15/08, 08:40 PM
Do not EVER get a subscription to AP
for the love of your god.
Chromefox
09/15/08, 08:50 PM
My AP subscription hasn't run out yet. I'm frustrated now that my taste has changed enough to notice that they don't actually focus on alternative music, just scene music.

I think a name change to "Scene Press" is definitely in order.
Kid B
09/15/08, 09:43 PM
I don't like any magazines.
kearn1tm
09/16/08, 04:32 AM
My AP subscription hasn't run out yet. I'm frustrated now that my taste has changed enough to notice that they don't actually focus on alternative music, just scene music.

I think a name change to "Scene Press" is definitely in order.

This magazine is such a rag, comprised of hacks with virtually no distinguishable journalistic integrity or concrete, original opinion. I subscribed around 2001 (14 years old) and was so enamored by the concept of seeing Taking Back Sunday and Thursday on a cover. Unfortunately, it wasn't until I was 17 or so that I began to shed the love for "scene" music and became aware of the fact that AP pander to the latest trend that hit the scenesteristas four months prior.

I took a gander at an issue a few months back, and the entire magazine was comprised of substanceless feature articles and fluff pieces about [insert band that played on the Hurley Stage of Warped Tour that year here] which was, essentially, a retelling of their wikipedia page...with QUOTES!

That and ads for brightly colored clothing...and new albums from yet another insipid, derivative Underoath clone who desperately attempt to look menacing in their photo while wearing skin-tight jeans that look as though they were melded to their skin and sleeveless shirts that display their flawlessly shaved arms. That's cred. Also, the token "somewhat chunky guy." He probably plays keyboards or some shit. Hopefully, the keytar. That shit's slammin'.
kearn1tm
09/16/08, 04:42 AM
Spin is the magazine that suffers from having an affectation of "indie," and this unwarranted sense of 'cred' when, in fact, their idea of 'indie' is the latest Brit Pop/Rock band NME and the blogosphere was raving about nearly half-a-year ago and a trendy buzzband that is on the cusp of, or just signed to a major label's 'indie distributor.' They shamelessly tout themselves as "pop culture facilitators" who introduce their readership to the next big things...months (if not years) after they actually were the next big thing. It's self-aggrandizing bullshit.

For instance, they loved and hyped Black Kids...around March of this year. Vampire Weekend? Aces. Totally buy their album, you know, before they're huge...yeah, I know they're on MTV and Alt Radio, but, you know, before "your mom and little brother hear it" big. Any time an Arctic Monkey album drops, it'll be in the Best of the Year list. Bet your bestfriend's newborn bastard child on it. Do you guys like the Indie? Four words: TV On the Radio! Greatest band of all-month.
krimson
09/16/08, 05:01 AM
Looking into getting a subscription... for something to do during class. :P
Rolling Stone mag is better.
kearn1tm
09/16/08, 05:17 AM
Rolling Stone mag is better.

Rolling Stone is incredibly antiquated and has been so since the early '80s.
IWasaCamera
09/16/08, 09:20 AM
Spin is the magazine that suffers from having an affectation of "indie," and this unwarranted sense of 'cred' when, in fact, their idea of 'indie' is the latest Brit Pop/Rock band NME and the blogosphere was raving about nearly half-a-year ago and a trendy buzzband that is on the cusp of, or just signed to a major label's 'indie distributor.' They shamelessly tout themselves as "pop culture facilitators" who introduce their readership to the next big things...months (if not years) after they actually were the next big thing. It's self-aggrandizing bullshit.

For instance, they loved and hyped Black Kids...around March of this year. Vampire Weekend? Aces. Totally buy their album, you know, before they're huge...yeah, I know they're on MTV and Alt Radio, but, you know, before "your mom and little brother hear it" big. Any time an Arctic Monkey album drops, it'll be in the Best of the Year list. Bet your bestfriend's newborn bastard child on it. Do you guys like the Indie? Four words: TV On the Radio! Greatest band of all-month.
This is actually a flawless description of the mag.
xhelloyellowx
09/16/08, 03:56 PM
Definitely go with AP, it's got the best articles about music you'll ever read.
If you want to read about politics and starving African children, go with Rolling Stone.
Go with SPIN if you want to waste your time getting headaches due to their dullness and the fact that all the articles will be about terrible acts that you've never heard of, and won't want to.
underthetalking
09/16/08, 04:07 PM
This magazine is such a rag, comprised of hacks with virtually no distinguishable journalistic integrity or concrete, original opinion. I subscribed around 2001 (14 years old) and was so enamored by the concept of seeing Taking Back Sunday and Thursday on a cover. Unfortunately, it wasn't until I was 17 or so that I began to shed the love for "scene" music and became aware of the fact that AP pander to the latest trend that hit the scenesteristas four months prior.

I took a gander at an issue a few months back, and the entire magazine was comprised of substanceless feature articles and fluff pieces about [insert band that played on the Hurley Stage of Warped Tour that year here] which was, essentially, a retelling of their wikipedia page...with QUOTES!

That and ads for brightly colored clothing...and new albums from yet another insipid, derivative Underoath clone who desperately attempt to look menacing in their photo while wearing skin-tight jeans that look as though they were melded to their skin and sleeveless shirts that display their flawlessly shaved arms. That's cred. Also, the token "somewhat chunky guy." He probably plays keyboards or some shit. Hopefully, the keytar. That shit's slammin'.

Spin is the magazine that suffers from having an affectation of "indie," and this unwarranted sense of 'cred' when, in fact, their idea of 'indie' is the latest Brit Pop/Rock band NME and the blogosphere was raving about nearly half-a-year ago and a trendy buzzband that is on the cusp of, or just signed to a major label's 'indie distributor.' They shamelessly tout themselves as "pop culture facilitators" who introduce their readership to the next big things...months (if not years) after they actually were the next big thing. It's self-aggrandizing bullshit.

For instance, they loved and hyped Black Kids...around March of this year. Vampire Weekend? Aces. Totally buy their album, you know, before they're huge...yeah, I know they're on MTV and Alt Radio, but, you know, before "your mom and little brother hear it" big. Any time an Arctic Monkey album drops, it'll be in the Best of the Year list. Bet your bestfriend's newborn bastard child on it. Do you guys like the Indie? Four words: TV On the Radio! Greatest band of all-month.


Spot. On.
underthetalking
09/16/08, 04:08 PM
Definitely go with AP, it's got the best articles about music you'll ever read.
If you want to read about politics and starving African children, go with Rolling Stone.
Go with SPIN if you want to waste your time getting headaches due to their dullness and the fact that all the articles will be about terrible acts that you've never heard of, and won't want to.

Hahahahaha. Oh you.