#alternative press

to avenge alternative press

This rings louder after the recently announced mass-layoffs at music publications Alternative Press, Revolver, Goldmine, BrooklynVegan. Live Nation is fucking evil and them swallowing up music publications, gutting them and thus controlling which bands get covered and what people say about bands and music is just fucked up. It's one step in the big plan to control the entire music industry ecosystem.

If real music journalism and the huge variety of music journalists' voices and interests gets replaced with one bland face of a huge corporation, pushing out ai-slop masquerading as journalism, produced for the sole benefit of safe advertising and reputation management for large music companies and the select few favourite golden geese of the company, they will kill off everything that gave rock its soul.

When the industry of cool deems anything out of the ordinary cringe or risky and therefore not worthy of being written about, we will miss out on a lot of amazing stuff made by weirdos for weirdos. It's no wonder that MCR fans love digging for clips about the band members' actual thoughts, weird quirks and old twitter shitposts or that they adore the crazy theatrics of it all (hello lltbp fetish opera). That's what makes the people behind the music feel more real, more like us. And that gives more power to the music they've made. And real music journalists are an important link in getting these human aspects of the artists out to the fans. Losing these journalists is a huge threat to the vibrant, strange and fascinating world of rock music and how we experience it in our homes or out in the concert halls.

Trying to get rid of old AP magazines from high school on my Vinted <3 List will be updated as more are added. I accept reasonable bundle offers.

Currently Listed:

#308 March 2014 - Of Mice & Men

#309 Apr 2014 - Real Friends, Electric Century, Touche Amore sold

#311 June 2014 - Crown the Empire

#312 July 2014 - Warped Tour '14

#313 Aug 2014 - Brendon Urie (APMAS - #3 of 4 collector copies) sold

#314 Sept 2014 - 5 Seconds of Summer sold

#317 Dec 2014 - Black Veil Brides sold

#319 Feb 2015 - All Time Low

#321 Apr 2015 - Pierce the Veil (discounted) sold

#326 Sept 2015 - The Wonder Years

#328 Nov 2015 - Mayday Parade sold

#330 Jan 2016 - Panic! at the Disco sold

#332 March 2016 - PVRIS (discounted) sold

#333 Apr 2016 -Neck Deep