Q Magazine to stop publication

[Fittster]

"Q Magazine, a cornerstone of rock journalism in the UK, is to close after 34 years.

The magazine's circulation had fallen to 28,000 per month from a peak of 200,000 in 2001."

Don't think I will miss all those list

Is mixmag still being published?

Edited by Fittster on Monday 20th July 19:03

[Turn7]

Was a good mag in its day, but the lower quality paper and fixation on U2/rem/Radiohead killed it for me.

[Hub]

Part of me is sad about the demise of Q because it is the end of an era, the last of the mainstream music press that I used to enjoy - particularly in the 90s when I was an avid consumer of NME, Melody Maker, Select, Vox etc (all since long gone). Q was a bit more mature than those titles so I moved on to it a bit later but they did some great interviews in their day.

Saying that it had become a shadow of its former self in recent years so I'm not surprised - relying on the aforementioned lists rather than in depth interviews and articles, and album reviews that were literally all 3 and 4 stars as if they were afraid to offend!

[CardinalFang]

Agree with the comments about "it's day" having passed. I subscribed for about 5 years, around 2000 & managed to win their 2000 Mercury Award crossword competition - which they promptly credited to my wife in the next month's issue, as she'd made the call to arrange delivery of the CD's & home cinema system. Ar*e!

Shame though - Modern Classics magazine gone today too.

CF