Bang Magazine

New music magazines have a history of being here one day, and gone the next. Most usually end up going one of either two ways - not last much longer than a few years (if they're lucky), or proving to be popular and staying the course. One of these that should fall into the latter is new music mag 'Bang'. 'Bang' magazine was launched in March 2003 (about four months ago), and appears to have been a hit. Although I only bought it by chance, it was definitlely a good purchase. I expect some people will not have heard of this magazine - which is fair enough, as it isn't very widely advertised (I've only heard adverts for it on Virgin ...

'Bang' magazine is one of many music magazines now available, and also one of the newest additions, too. It was launched back in March of this year, and has so far had three issues published, available every month. The magazine is characterised by 'Bang' printed in large red or black lettering on the cover, with one main photo of a band featured. There are no inset photos as on some other music mags, and the details of what/who's featured inside is quite sparse. Inside 'Bang' is pretty much the same as any other magazine available; there are the usual features such as band interviews, readers' letters, music reviews, live music, ...