Looking for fellow lovers of the magazine and the monthly drops they have loved, and still love. Like the 7" single, magazines are a format I love and are part of my DNA - from my first taste with my subscription to Oink!, to my religious devouring each issue of RaD, to Muzik and Jockey Slut. A very formative memory was going through a big pile of magazines at an older family friend’s house, one of my sisters group of friends who were utterly fascinating to me. A whole exciting, exspansive universe was opened up to me that has never left.
What were you’re magazines of choice back in the day? Share any, on any subject, that you still love.
BMX Freestyle, Computer & Video Games, Hip Hop Connection, The Source, Select, The Face, iD, The Herb Garden, Muzik, Jockey Slut, Uncut, Mojo just about covers it!
The only current current magazine-like things I pay/subscribe to are Private Eye and the digital version of The Wire. Also a very few news sites that still do journalism.
All recommendationss (especially arts other than music) welcome.
Shoot! (if that counts?) The Face, I-D, Mixmag, Muzik, DJ Mag, Blitz, Jockey Slut, The End, The Herb Garden, Red All Over The Land, Another Wasted Corner, Through The Wind & The Rain, When Saturday Comes, Faith, Grand Royal.
All great reads in their time. Still love a mag, subscribe to Mundial and a mate publishes The Pitch mag, a long form sports mag which is really good if that’s your thing.
80s: Beano, Shoot, Commando, Warlord, Smash Hits, Panini World Cup 82 & 86
90s: Mixmag, DJ, Muzik, Time Out, ID, Sunday Times Magazine, TNT, Q
00s: Time, Newsweek, Shoreditch Twat, Private Eye, Faith, PR Week
magazine reading tailed off dramatically after around 2010 partly as things moved online and partly because I was by then handling thousands of publications for work and just grew sick of the whole industry
half my saturdays were spent reading music reviews at WHSmiths, trying to work out what terms like ‘cheesy stabs’ or ‘hardbag’ actually meant. in 94 it felt like the indies finally cottoned on to ‘dance’ so when the nme went in big on the orb and underworld, that suddenly meant leafing through erstwhile ‘enemy’ magazines too
Thrasher (newsagent in town had this and was a treat when i could get it)
The Face (Maybe 15 plus years of this)
i-D (15 Years of this too)
Straight No Chaser
Dazed and Confused
Proper
Wall Paper (The first issues were great)
Keep On
Faith
FACT
Wax Poetics ( I still have every copy of this )
Arena Homme Plus
Paninaro
Monocle
Rouleur
Electronic Sound
Record Culture Magazine (Love this, got all 11 the new one is ace)
Sneaker Freaker
Hypebeast
Jocks And Nerds
I used to get all the music magazines for the shop so people could read them. Was two or three ace newsagents in soho that sold amazing magazines. (LOL not that kind)
Ah yes, the standing in the magazine aisle at Smiths leafing through the mags is a long loved and much missed past time. I can trace the lineage of that from Video Games mags from the age of 12 to music / fashion stuff up to late twenties
A few from different eras I have to hand. Panini I’m not sure I count, but '83 was carried to school everyday (G- :))and I stole a fortune off my parents to complete. '86 was a car boot find.
Faiths were given to me. Magic Feet, Electronic Sound and Wax Poetics always worth a look
I’ve always loved a magazine… I still have the first copy of Thrasher I got my hands on, which is falling to pieces, but the smell of the pages transports me straight back to when I first read it.
Everyone’s pretty much covered all those I can remember already, apart from loads of graffiti mags, the early Graphotism’s probably being the best of those. And some other BMX mags, BMX Plus, Bicycle Motocross Action, BMX Action Bike.
These days, apart from Faith, more mook’s rather than strictly mags – Record, Apartmento & Never Too Small.
Just remembered Soul Underground as well, and Black Echoes.
And they’re more comics I guess, but I love SurfToons and CarToons from the 60’s & 70’s as well.
formative magazines were Shoot! and then BMX Action Bike/RAD. I loved magazines. Used to have Shoot and RAD delivered by the village newsagent and couldn’t wait for them to drop through the letterbox. Picking up the odd US BMX mag or later Thrasher and surfing magazines was like a window into another world. My bedroom wall was covered in the pages of magazines.
Later on it was Face, iD, NME, Mixmag, the odd Jockey Slut. Now it’s Record and Disco Pogo.
I’ve got a great collection of RAD , many later ones in great condition and barely read (about the time my youthful attention shifted to acid house related activities). Still got a fair stack of Face mags , don’t know what happened to the rest of them, lost in the mists of time.
The hardback RAD book that came out a couple of years ago is also worth checking.
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