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Product:	Q
Date:	04/08/01 (139 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great album reviews, No Britney 'exclusive' gossip sort of stories., Lots of rock.

Disadvantages: Sometimes album selections can be quite rare., Lots of rock (it's a double edged sword...)

Q is undoubtebly one of the greatest pop / rock music publications out at the moment. The magazine is pretty much split up in to two sections... the main features and the 'Q-Review' section. In the main features, they talk about new bands, shows, the charts and lots of different stuff. For example, in the Summer 2001 episode they had an article on Madonna (yuck!) and her live show (yuck!), an article on Groove Armada's new album, Starsailor, Linkin Park, rock side projects, Bjork, U2's american tour and two 'where are they now?'

The regular features are good and sometimes very amusing. They have a 'Cash for Questions' interview, where you send in ideas for questions, and any that they use, they will pay you some dosh, that's £25 to you and me. The one in the issue in fron tof me was with Boy George, and it tells you what the next two are so you can plan your questions to post, fax or email in.

They also have Q-Mail, their monthly postbag, 'Incoming' a section with the latest news, and a listing of what's currently very popular on the Q satellite TV channel in the last month.

In the monthly feature, Their Time Is Now, there are two featured artists that are just breaking in to the mainstream. In this magazine, there was Tool and Aaliyah.

They also have a charts section with the latest albums charts, and two 'comedy' chart countdowns with subjects like 'Top 25 common causes of stress', 'Ten new channels from the BBC', and '25 funniest body parts' etc.

An 'eyewitness' area will have details about a recording session. From my two issues in front of me, Mike Oldfield's legendary Tubular Bells and something involving the Police.


The real killer part of Q is the album reviews though. It's like a mini version of dooyoo served in printed form. But not as good. The reviews seem sometimes biased, but usually spot on.
r>They also review re-releases, DVD's, video tapes, books, hi-fi's, internet sites, live gigs and have an essential advert listings of big gigs in the UK.

That pretty much sums up a copy of Q. If you are interested in rock music, or pop, then you might like giving Q a go. It isn't a celebrity magazine, so you won't see 'exclusive Five shots' or 'wicked Backstreet pix', but you will find amusing, well-written commentary on the latest album releases and you occasionally get a demo CD on the front to listen to tracks reviewed in the mag.

Well worth the asking price of £3.30, even just for the album reviews section it'd be worth that. I might even subscribe sometime soon...