I think all mags tread that line for the first year of their existance, and god knows, there is space for a decent monthly with decent & lengthy editorial aimed at what was once the "NME market".
I'm glad they're at least trying, hopefully it covers some lesser knowns too, coz the cover stars are dullsville.

Bang was great when it started but it did seem to lose something after the first few issues. Did they have a launch team which was replaced?

I really hope something good turns up because Q has always been limited in scope but at least used to be a decent read, but now it's rubbish and there's not much else along those lines. Bang and X-Ray were both pretty good I thought... I just want Select back.

Mojo and Q = zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz in my opinion.
Old hoary has been bands for dadrock music deadenders.

NME could have sun ino the same target market but has stood its ground and I'm glad numbers have gone up for them as I don't think they've played it safe.

Now X-ray was too far ahead of the game for its own good - I remember reading about Franz in their pages (before any other) just before they came on in a tent at Reading Festival two years back.

I think X-ray would have flourished last year - it bit the dust too early.
Bring back something like it!!!

I think Mojo & Uncut go through swings in quality, it depends on who's writing.
New magazines are always great because they do what they do what they really want before they realise it doesn't sell.
Q sucks a fat one, it's a middle management magazine for people who listen to Pink Floyd doing 65mph down a country lane in their BMW. Hundred tracks you must download this month etc. pish.

I love NME. It rules.

I imagine Mojo being read by the kind of old folks who wear tie-die headbands to disguise their baldness.

Poor old Select, I used to love it. It all started going wrong when the logo changed from red to black if you ask me...

Interesting how Metal Hammer's sales have gone up and they've survived because they've really gone for the niche market. I think general music magazines like Q might suffer because of this.

i miss logo magazine.

I bought Zero - a brand new mag by some guy who dresses up ats Kiss. It's fucking chronic. Total vanity project. You know something's bad when the editor writes half of it.

NME is good, everyone thinks it's really cynical but if you actually read it all it does is big up bands they like.

Q is awful. I've read that mag for years and have just stopped buying it. Five stars for the Coldplay album... Pander with a capital P. And some feature on a band plucked from the front of the NME to show they're down with the youths.

Mojo is good - it's the only massive mag where you'll suddenly get a five page feature about some reggae studio in Jamaica. And the reviews are genuinely lead by what the staff like. E.g. page review for Richard Hawley. Would Q do that?

Uncut is OK but oo much movie stuff. Just personal taste I guess.

Notion is quite innovative and wonderfully designed. Hope that one keeps going. Should drop the fashion stuff though.

Does anyone remember the fortnightly mag "Flipside" that was meant to take on NME and MM? Brill while it lasted but they had no idea how to finance themselves. Babes in the woods.

Wasn't there an xbox game called Amped. The instruction leaflet was in a magazine style. Surely Microsoft wont sue?

Also does anyone rember rip and burn. that sort of stopped after 3 issues.

A music monthly that panders to the masses? That's the last thing we need in my opinion.

We need to flush out better writers and start something really cutting edge - niche in regards that it deals with emerging talent and doesn't follow fashion, it sets it. (But not in the NME sense of creating trends to sell copies) Genuine comment on genuine bands.

Easier said than done though I guess.

flush out better writers? you mean bring worse ones in?
so have you read the nme over the past couple of years?

I notice that theres a O.C exclusive advertised on the cover. Oh i must have it.

This looks piss-poor, I must say. Methinks I'll keep buying Rock Sound, thank you VERY much.