When it comes to magazines, I tend to stick with the likes of Vogue, Marie Claire and Company, and pick up the odd free copy of Mongrel(it’s just so darn cool). I don’t buy music mags…anymore. As a kid I was all about Smash Hits and Top Of The Pops but that was mostly for the free posters. I don’t read Hot Press or NME. I don’t like magazines telling me who I should and should not be listening to and hyping up a certain band so much that they lose all credibility, becoming nothing more than a novelty band.
So the fact that a brand spanking new and shiny Irish music magazine is due to hit our shelves on March 6 does not have me jumping for joy.
State magazine is the so-called ‘brainchild’ of international music photographer Roger Woolman. The monthly mag is aimed at ‘The Electric Picnic’ generation (apparently that means aged 25-40).
There’s already an online version (clickety-click).
Its writers are based in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, Tokyo, Australia and Berlin (the coolest places in the world obviously…) and will cover digital music as well as albums released in Ireland.
I’ll probably pick up a copy, just to see what it’s like.
