Rock Sound

Ah a music magazine that talks about music and doesn't discriminate. The lack of Pete Wentz's every toilet break or sexual fantasy with his ugly wife a thing of the past I have switched from Kerrang! to Rock Sound for a number of reasons. Firstly the price. It costs £3.60 and is released every month [compared to Kerrang! which is out every week for £2.20]. The rviews and articles are far more detailed and tend to focus more dominantly on the music than idle gossip or the such and you always get a free CD with every issue. The CD features about 10 tracks or so that are unreleased as singles but often appear on artist's albums. I also like that Rock Sound ...  Read the complete review

It seems there are loads of music magazines around at the moment - NME, Q, Kerrang!, to name a few - and new ones seem to appear from time to time only to be gone a few months/years later. But one music magazine that seems to have gained popularity and become more widely available since it appeared is 'Rock Sound'. 'Rock Sound' is a monthly music magazine that first appeared in 1999, around 4 years ago (the latest issue is no.48). I discovered it just over 2 years ago, and have continued to buy it ever since. As the title suggests, it centres around Rock music. This is true (up to a point), but it does cover other genres of popular music, as the ...  Read the complete review

The last couple of years have seen massive changes in the UK’s music press. Melody Maker and Select have got to the big recycling bin in the sky. NME has taken upon itself to become a more popularist paper, whilst alienating it’s core readership, hence the 8% fall in it’s circulation since January 2001. Sailing against this wind of destruction tearing through the UK music press is a new comer on the monthly scene its name is Rock Sound. Rock Sound may sound like a magazine dedicated to the poodle hair bands of the late 1980’s, but in reality it stands as the most radical and all embracing music magazines published by the mainstream ...  Read the complete review

I first started buying Rock Sound about 2 years ago, when it had only just been brought out, and I have been buying it without fail since. The main attraction for me was without a doubt the free CD, and even though this brought up the price, it was defiantly worth it. Here I am going to go through the different parts of the magazine and explain why I do or don't like them; <The free CD> Without a doubt, this is the basis to most of the magazine. There is normally a famous band or artist as the starting track, and then smaller artists encompassing most of the areas of rock, punk, metal and so on. There is always a big article based on the band who do ...  Read the complete review

You really have to love Rock Sound, even if it is only for its certain young feel and amatuer style. Its a pretty newish magazine, although saying that it has been around for a couple of years, yet compared to other music magazines that certainly makes it the baby of an ever decreasing market (with the loss of Melody Maker et al). Rock Sound looks young as well as feels it, it has a glossly cover and clocks in at over a hundred pages, mainly because it is a monthly magazine so it has to pack everything into it. Of course there is not a lot new to it - the same old news pages, interviews and reviews of just about every obscure album or single you could ...  Read the complete review