3 magazines

(wrote this for an Italian publication whose name I am blanking on and likewise the date of writing)New Musical Express A profoundly formative force in my life as a young aspiring writer at the end of ‘the 70s and during the early ‘80s. This U.K. weekly music paper covered not just rock but all the music that mattered – reggae, funk, African music, early hip hop, and a lot of other things that you wouldn’t expect if you only know the NME as a 21st Century narrowcast publication dedicated to British indie. It dealt with politics both on its own and as filtered through the prism of postpunk music, and covered exemplary figures within arts that felt adjacent to rock – certain kinds of film, books, TV. Above all, it was a home for heroically pretentious writing. The Village Voice Every generation regards its era of the Voice to be the best. So there are probably some who thought the magazine in decline during the 1990s, when I started reading it regularly, spending increasing amounts of…

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