Stay Updated With Online Music Magazines

Music is an art as well as a science. The pleasure in listening music is quite simple as compared to the music in itself. Music has enormous forms and structures which defines its beauty and creativity. Music has that charm which makes it a part of everyone's hobby in one or the other way.

Being a music aspirant, everyone wants to explore more and more about music. Music magazines and books act as a good source of information related to your favorite music. A magazine is specifically dedicated to the music and its culture. These magazines may include news, interviews, essays, record views, concert views, and also covermount with recorded music at times. Similar books are a great source of learning about music. The books carry immense information about instruments and equipments, theory of music, history associated with songs and a lot more.

Though, music magazines have everything you wish, but there accessibility was a big question. Hours of searching in the market can go in vain to find the perfect magazine you want. Owing to this problem and increased popularity of the internet, now online magazines have made their presence in the market. These magazines successfully provide you music related information and news. Interesting facts and reviews related to latest releases, composers, artists, lyricists, instrumentalists, singers and many other things are covered in the pages of online magazines.

Music News - The Magazines That Shaped the Music Industry

Music news as we know it today developed out of the early magazines that caught onto the growth of the popular music industry early on in the 20th Century. Melody Maker was one of the first, introducing itself in 1926 (around the same time that the first electric guitars and amplifiers began to emerge) and targeting musicians. However, as music became more and more popular the music magazines of the day began to target the general public and the introduction of new, rival magazines hit the shelves.

The 1950s is when the real battle started with Melody Maker going head to head with the new kids in town, the NME, an amalgamation of previous titles Musical Express and Accordion Weekly by new owner and music promoter Maurice Kinn. Previously more interested in jazz, Melody Maker was a late convert to the advent of rock and roll, but as the sixties swung in favour of bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the ground was set for big readership figures for both publications.

The 1960s also saw the coming of more politicised voices to the publication of music news with the launch of the Berkley Barb in 1965 and Rolling Stone in 1967. Criticism of the Vietnamese war, the publication of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and the counterculture revolution of the 1960s sat next to The Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix and Jim Morrison cover stories.