NME, Loaded, Nuts to Ideal Home and Marie Claire publisher IPC Media has said this afternoon that it plans to restructure and cut jobs. Evelyn Webster, CEO of IPC Media said the Time Warner-owned firm would reorganise around three audience groups of men, mass-market women and up-market women as of January...
With the appointments of Nichola Browne as editor of Bauer's rock weekly Kerrang! and Krissi Murison to the helm of IPC's NME, the reins of the most influential new music magazines to maintain a meaningful, if diminishing, presence on the UK news-stand are now firmly in grip of women. As the...
While music magazines have been struggling for a long time, the news last week that independent titles Plan B and The Knowledge were closing still came as a blow to the industry. Plan B’s fifth anniversary issue , due out on 1st June, will be its last. The title was launched in 2004 by former Vox editor...
The online gig-listing service is a stuffy market, problem is, none of them work particularly well and reek of unreliability. Well, maybe for music snobs like myself. Well as gig guides go, it's hard to top TimeOut , who is king of the castle, but they rarely add links to purchase tickets, which...
For me, this is a bit of a sad state of affairs! I am very into my music, with a taste firmly rooted in old and questionable indie, I spent much of my youth breezing through Top of the Pops and graduating onto NME, Q and Uncut. There's something that I found incredibly satisfying in buying the latest...
