Prog magazines

Jim Garten wrote: I think the closest a magazine comes for prog rock fans has to be the UK's 'Classic Rock'.

Jim,

Please please please take this off the thread. People might think you're recommending the magazine. It can be very often  dire crap, badly researched, ill-informed, with a tendency to invent facts when necessary - aimed at teens who don't know any better.......................

John Tobler's 70's magazine  Zig Zag is the reference point for good rock writing, especially prog. When Mojo was first published, the then editor stated that they intended to follow the high standards set by ZigZig, and did so for a number of years, before trying to become like their sister magazine Q.

Otherwise you have to find the independently published magazines, specialising in prog. Atleast a couple have good circulations in  North America, and get across here. Locally the Ultima Thule shop publish Audion, a mixture of pretty good interviews, researched pieces on the more obscure prog and related bands, and lots of album reviews - unexpectedly the Freeman brothers put a lot of effort into the magazine, and so will contribute a lot. But they are always looking for serious contributors.

Otherwise you have the electronic publications such a Prog Archives, Ghostland (offshoot of the NEARFEST organisation):

http://ghostland.com/ghostland/

, etc. etc.

Sean Trane wrote: [Have you got a link or an address for this Audion mag or should this be enough? http://www.ultimathulerecords.com/

Sean

That's the one I use. It also has the Brothers Freeman e.mail address there too if you want to make direct contact - but they can be slow, on the evidence of  an e.mail reply from Alan received last week to some info I sent 6 weeks before..........................

BTW one thing about Audion is that has an element of timelessness, bar the reviews (unlike Q, Mojo or Classic Sock, which seem to be heavily responsive to what  major bands are about to release), so back issues are available and don't seem particularly dated. They occasionally impress me by interviews of  some great but neglected east European musicians e.g. Marion Vegas, keyboard player of the 70's Nice-influenced  (then Czech, now Slovac) Collegium Musicum 

I recommended 'Progression'. The interviews/features are their strongest point, as the reviews are a little too generous across the board, but overall this is a really great magazine that deserves a much larger readership. High quality printing, simple but nice layout, features on new bands, old bands, progrock bands and prog metal bands.

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