Magazines, papers etc you read regularly or did once

Used to love Uncut. They would include a CD with track of bands that had released albums that particular month, great for discovering new artists. That seemed to dry up and the discs were then bands covering songs by an established artist, very hit and miss.

NME was a sacred cow that because it hadn't predicted punk tried to correct that by promoting bands and scenes that just didn't cut it, Bogshed anyone?
Before folding, its finally ignominy was that it was given away free in radical haunts like Topshop.

Running a shop, I used to subscribe to Record Collector but it became so repetitive, so many articles on rate Beatles vinyl that I could repeat them in my sleep.

To be perfectly honest, I find most of the current music mags so badly written, the prose penned by some slavish fan boy. You'd always be better off with a music biography book that looks at the subject in depth rather than three pages of sycophantic drivel and a few colour pictures. Someone once lent me a copy of Metal Hammer, full of bearded, tattooed, long leather
coated blokes looking moody in woodland settings, telling you how they struggled for their 'art's, pretentious bollocks.

The only publication I buy now is Private Eye and only when I'm off on a trip somewhere.

I used to get Sounds every week and Zigzag occasionally .Goal and World Soccer for the football.Had a fair collection of Record Collectors as well.Most recently it’s been Viva la rock but haven’ bought it for a while due to the cost.A lot of these mags now retail for about £5 if not more.and a lot of the time you don’t even get a free cd anymore.

I used to read quite a few different music magazines, and then stopped… and then recently started again, as I discovered an app that allows you to read current and back issues of thousands of magazines (including all the major and specialist music mags) for eight quid a month.

What an old farty thing to say😂

Back in the 90’s it was Loaded and Viz for me.

I haven't bought one in a while but it's still a good read.

I dunno about metal but it certainly contains a load of pish like Michael Monroe and Sisters of Mercy and all that goth rubbish.

However, it's still has something for everyone.

I suppose VLR partly fills that gap....