Music News - magazines that have shaped the music industry
Music News, as we know it today developed from the 20th century magazines that caught on the growth of the field of popular music in the early years. Melody Maker was one of the first raised in 1926 (around the same time that the first electric guitars and amplifiers started to emerge) and targeting musicians. But, as music has become the most popular music magazines of the day began for the public and the introduction of the new target, rivalMagazines on the shelves.
1950 is when the real battle with Melody Maker started to go head to head with the new kids in town head to the NME, a merger of the previous songs Musical Express and Accordion Weekly and the new owner and music promoter Maurice chin. Previously, interest in jazz has been a delay Melody Maker the advent of rock and roll to convert them, but in the Sixties swung in favor of bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the land has been set for the big playersfor both publications.
The 1960s also saw the coming of votes more politicized, the music publishing news with the launch of the Berkeley Barb in 1965 and Rolling Stone in 1967. The criticism of the Vietnam War, was the publication of Fear's Hunter S. Thompson 'and Loathing in Las Vegas and the counterculture of the 1960s alongside the Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix and Jim Morrison stories.
This political edge to listen to the music did not reach the British musicMessages to the end of 1970 with the advent of the era of punk. However, since the early '70s, the introduction of a new rival, which generate sounds quickly become one of the three weekly music good levels of readers. This board came from his ability to see the credibility of the new music trends like punk.
The year 1980 should see a mix of journalism in the field of music, with hip-hop wars, the NME and a populist position asMelody Maker until his spiritual rebirth in 1986. However, it was in the 90s that had the history of modern British music journalism, he would see a head. The rise of Britpop and the introduction and success of the monthly Q (1986) and Mojo (1993), Melody Maker is no clear direction or the public, and not to publish it in 2000, merging with his long-term NME time rival, sounds little 'dust for almost a decade earlier, in 1991.
The 2000s were, from left to NME, and despite itsropey start of the decade, would finally find its feet again with bands like White Stripes, The Strokes and The Libertines. But with fall quickly to readers more than a tenth of its peak, 300,000 copies of publications which have poured substantial investments NME music news online to make up for her.
With the arrival of a new decade, it is difficult to say that each of the remaining music magazines do anything particularly innovative, but thenis the music industry as a whole. With the nation in the culture of X-Factor blocked really credible music often find it difficult to break into the underground world that too often dwells. Death of Top of the Pops in 2006 meant that the music only in terrestrial television in Italy, which should be done during the first evening of a talent competition or a different basis. With support from the lower level, perhaps it is time for the icons of music news to take back whatare required to provide aid for decades.
