Browbeat: industrial, punk, jazz, classical or experimental musics.
What the hell is this browbeat? It's a zine (that's magazine for you oldsters) for noise junkies, folks who like dissonance and harshness in their music - whether it be industrial, punk, jazz, classical or experimental musics. It's published randomly with ambitions for regularity. Most of our artist interviews are in-depth and come with the obsessive-compulsives dream, extensive discographies. Ummmm...mmmm...discographies.
Besides being music information geeks, we like to excercise our myopic brains by also including articles on non-music topics we love.
PerformerMag: Offers musicians an online resource for information about the art and business of the music industry.
Performer Magazine, the nation's largest musicians' trade publication, highlights the best unsigned and independent musical acts from the U.S. Performer is dedicated to supplying our readership with the kind of industry information and motivating interviews they need to get ahead. Through focused editorial covering everything from the latest gear to marketing your band on a shoestring budget, Performer meets the needs of active recording musicians.
Performer Magazine consists of three separate, regionalized editions published each month: Northeast, Southeast, and West Coast. Each edition is free and contains live show and CD reviews, artist spotlights and feature and cover articles specific to the region. All submissions receive equal editorial consideration.
Radio & Records is the preeminent information company serving the key decisionmakers in the radio and record industries. Founded in 1973, R&R offers a broad line of print, Internet, research, convention and seminar products providing radio- and record-industry executives with access to critical research information, including the most comprehensive music-airplay data in the industry.
R&R prides itself on being a customer-focused organization committed to providing essential information to the radio and record communities. The company's relationships are a key driver behind its unique access to the more than 1,500 reporting radio stations that contact R&R each week to report new music added to their playlists for the coming week.
PASTE is one of the fastest-growing independently published entertainment magazines in the country, receiving "Magazine of the Year" honors at the 2007 and 2006 PLUG Independent Music Awards. We pride ourselves in being the premier magazine for people who still enjoy discovering new music, prize substance and songcraft over fads and manufactured attitude, and appreciate quality music across a broad stylistic spectrum--indie rock, Triple-A, Americana, folk, blues, jazz, etc.
We strive to bring readers thoughtful analysis on the best in film, books and other aspects of popular (and alternative) culture. PLUS, every issue of PASTE contains a FREE sampler CD (packed with 20+ songs). The Paste Sampler CD is an invitation-only CD we treat as a glorified office mix-tape, not something to listen to once and rip the two or three good songs. What more could you want? (OK, maybe a free subscription. We'll try to get it bundled in with universal health care, how's that?)
In 1993, Lydia Hutchinson founded PerformingSongwriter out of sheer love of music.
It all started in the guest bedroom of a little townhome in Nashville. There was no business plan, no financial backing and no staff. Just an old beige Mac, a older beige scanner, and a belief that starting a magazine about something you love is totally possible.
It’s hard not to develop a reverence for the art and craft of songwriting when you live in Music City, USA. But in ’93 there was no way to find out about the inspiration behind a song that your favorite artist sang, or the bits of trivia that all music lovers long for. Radio was just beginning its decline into corporate ownership, so we were missing out on great songs that were being written. And there wasn’t a single place to go that felt like a community where creative people could support each other and find inspiration.
Performing Songwriter was just a humble and heartfelt attempt at creating a place for songwriters to come together in a safe community where they’re understood and supported and heard by those who love music.
Soon the magazine had a loyal following who felt pride and a sense of ownership in it, and we were getting our little subscription checks from the likes of Lyle Lovett, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Joan Baez, Shawn Colvin, Carole King, Paul Simon, Bonnie Raitt … Performing Songwriter became the place where artists could keep in touch with their friends and peers, and reach out to their fans on a community level.
Thirteen years later Performing Songwriter has grown into what it is today: a completely independent, smart, beautifully designed and widely distributed publication that informs and connects music makers with music lovers. Fully staffed by a group of committed, hard-working and enthusiastic people, it provides the place for everyone to feel a part of the community of passionate, opinionated and creative people who know the importance of music in all of our lives. And it just keeps getting better ….