Magazines you like

[JasonPalmer]

Impressed by the Christmas edition of the new statesman my mother in law bought me for Christmas, what magazines do you like to read ?

[Joseph K]

One Christmas I received a year's subscription to Private Eye, which was alright except for the presence of the odious Nick Cohen AKA 'Rat Biter'.

Mid-teens I spent a year or so buying the NME. Thereafter it was Guitar Techniques, which is the last magazine I bought, though it's not as good as it was 15+ years ago when most of my copies date from. However, I still use several of these for practice exercises - how many magazines could claim to have that kind of value over time?

I also have half a dozen or so of the BBC Music Magazine.

[pastoralguy]

Gramophone.

Bo Holten Monthly.

Hi-Fi News. (Although I could never afford the components they review!)

[jayne lee wilson]

I reckon I'm pretty much addicted to magazines. Currently subscribe to New Scientist, Your Cat, Gramophone, HiFi News, love the Guardian Saturday and the Observer Sunday, love the columns and the Agony/Advice Pages.....

I usually have print+online and get everything delivered now, but when I used to go shopping in humanoid form I couldn't pass a newsagent without browsing, leafing and coming away with an Elle, a Vogue, a HiFiChoice or HIFiWorld; BBC Wildlife.
Back in the day, the NME was tucked under my arm, then read ostentatiously as I rode the train into town to scour for the New Releases (But like many people, I loved Smash Hits more & got that too...). I repeated this showing-off later with the Gramophone.


After extreme ill health and hospital stays recently, the experience of chronic pain, my life has changed. "Back to Books".....
Latenight boredom as everything shut down around the Ward and I could never sleep was just a killer. All those hours....! I ordered some Booker shortlisters (on the step next Morning!) and my visitor brought them in next day. I am now a devoted fan of Elizabeth Strout (the Lucy Barton books), also reading a Schumann Biography and a Mahler Guide.

But the magazines will still come each month, that glossy, transient fix of news and info, the latest on planets and black holes and nuclear fusion, What is the Self, streamers, speakers, vintage CD Players and symphonies....

[Pulcinella]

My partner used to give his godson an annual subscription to Private Eye, but had to stop when his (i.e., godson's) son got a bit too interested in it and started asking questions.
Subscription got changed to the Beano!

[teamsaint]

My partner used to give his godson an annual subscription to Private Eye, but had to stop when his (i.e., godson's) son got a bit too interested in it and started asking questions.
Subscription got changed to the Beano!

That sounds all fine and Dandy……

Gramophone is the only magazine I read regularly.
I see they are featuring this year’s big Rachmaniversary in the current edition.
A new thread would be appropriate perhaps.

[Alison]

I see Peter Quantrill reviews classical recordings in Hi-Fi News now.

Jayne/Pasters : Did you read anything about Christopher Breunig retiring?

I rather liked him, with good pointers on audio quality too.

[richardfinegold]

I see Peter Quantrill reviews classical recordings in Hi-Fi News now.

Jayne/Pasters : Did you read anything about Christopher Breunig retiring?

I rather liked him, with good pointers on audio quality too.

I read Hi Fi News irregularly now but yes I noticed the change.
I also read Gramophone and Fanfare.. Non music reads are Foreign Affairs and the New York Review of Books

[JasonPalmer]

I used to subscribe to the spectator, philosophy now magazine and the idler magazine but was too much reading material. I tend to buy the telegraph on Mondays. Used to read the weekend ft. Now I go to the shops with my four year old we sometimes come away with an Andys dinosaur adventures magazine.

[JasonPalmer]

I reckon I'm pretty much addicted to magazines. Currently subscribe to New Scientist, Your Cat, Gramophone, HiFi News, love the Guardian Saturday and the Observer Sunday, love the columns and the Agony/Advice Pages.....

I usually have print+online and get everything delivered now, but when I used to go shopping in humanoid form I couldn't pass a newsagent without browsing, leafing and coming away with an Elle, a Vogue, a HiFiChoice or HIFiWorld; BBC Wildlife.
Back in the day, the NME was tucked under my arm, then read ostentatiously as I rode the train into town to scour for the New Releases (But like many people, I loved Smash Hits more & got that too...). I repeated this showing-off later with the Gramophone.


After extreme ill health and hospital stays recently, the experience of chronic pain, my life has changed. "Back to Books".....
Latenight boredom as everything shut down around the Ward and I could never sleep was just a killer. All those hours....! I ordered some Booker shortlisters (on the step next Morning!) and my visitor brought them in next day. I am now a devoted fan of Elizabeth Strout (the Lucy Barton books), also reading a Schumann Biography and a Mahler Guide.

But the magazines will still come each month, that glossy, transient fix of news and info, the latest on planets and black holes and nuclear fusion, What is the Self, streamers, speakers, vintage CD Players and symphonies....

My mother in law got me new scientist as well which I enjoyed, I recently read some books about churchill as he seemed such an interesting chap from what I learnt when I visited Chartwell.

A number of people have mentioned gramophone magazine, I may pick up a copy when I next browse WH Smith's.

[duncan]

...Vogue, a HiFiChoice ...

I'm imagining a Venn diagram of Vogue and HiFi Choice readers!

I had a subscription to the LRB for a while recently but it got a bit exhausting. I listen to podcasts rather more nowadays, which probably makes me a bad person.

I have had subscriptions to Gramophone and Mountain magazines. The former will be familiar, the latter did what it says on the tin, except the tin said hardly anything at all: the minimalist design and typography were so distinct as to identify it instantly to the cognoscenti. The Gramophones have been pulped but I've kept the Mountains as they exemplify what a magazine can do, the fusion of text and image, like Elle or Vogue with ice or granite instead of tulle or organza.

[gradus]

Having sold long runs of Gramophone and HiFi News some years ago I no longer buy any music/Hi Fi magazines. I read the LRB, though I barely keep up with the contributions that interest me and the RHS monthly mag.

[Serial_Apologist]

I pick up The Big Issue pretty regularly from the friendly headscarved Bosnian gipsy girl, who comes several times a week all the way from Woolwich by buses to stand several hours outside Tesco's mini branch in W Dulwich. This year she had a card for me, in which she had inscribed "Jesus loves you". I used to have The Wire magazine on order, back in the 1980s when, under Anthony Wood, it covered jazz better than any other publication. Then it became fashionably devoted to Techno and Ambient, and I may pick up a copy if one happens to be available at the WH Smiths branch in Forest Hill, having first perused the contents to see if there is anything of interest: there may be something on free jazz or improv, an interview with a leading light or obituary these days. Similarly JazzWise.

[RichardB]

I used to have The Wire magazine on order, back in the 1980s when, under Anthony Wood, it covered jazz better than any other publication. Then it became fashionably devoted to Techno and Ambient

As you might know, I used to write quite regularly for that publication in the years around 1990 when the estimable Graham Lock was reviews editor, which came to an end when I had a disagreement with then editor Richard Cook about the content of one of my contributions. The following issue had Michael Jackson on the front cover. When in the 90s I used to commute by train between Amsterdam and The Hague I would get myself New Scientist, Scientific American and Gramophone to read on the train, but since that time I seem to have lost interest in magazines in general and those in particular, for reasons I won't go into yet again!

[smittims]

I used to read the LRB, the NYRB and the TLS regularly, but came to feel I was plodding through them out of a sense of duty. Now I read only books.