Rip & Burn: RiP
Music tech magazine 'Rip & Burn' has officially gone down in flames.
Apparently, Haymarket Publishing recently shutdown the print version of the mag that targeted the 'music download, iPod-toting generation'. Slow sales and a disappointing response from advertisers were cited as the main reasons for the foreclosure. 'Rip & Burn' was launched last October and only saw eight issues published.
'We're all gutted that the magazine didn't succeed in hitting its targets, but I think we created a great editorial project,' said 'Rip & Burn' editor Tom Dunmore. 'I hope that through Haymarket's existing titles and future online developments we can build on the groundwork laid by the Rip & Burn team.'
The company is currently entering into consultation with the magazine's full-time staff, hoping to find them jobs within the company. Dunmore will switch his editor-in-chief-ness over to 'Consumer Online' and 'Stuff,' both Haymarket magazines.
The online version of the music magazine will continue to run at www.ripandburn.it.
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Music mag Rip & Burn gets sacked
To be fair, it was a bit rubbish.
It touted itself as a "new music bible", yet the second issue featured Snow 'Winding Up Promotion Of Their Million-Selling Third Album' Patrol on the front. Like, y'what?
It touted itself as a "new music bible", yet the second issue featured Snow 'Winding Up Promotion Of Their Million-Selling Third Album' Patrol on the front. Like, y'what?
Music mag Rip & Burn gets sacked
Wooo! Good noose.
Music mag Rip & Burn gets sacked
I bought an issue of this and got about halfway through before tossing it into the bin.
Good riddance say I!
jX
Good riddance say I!
jX
Music mag Rip & Burn gets sacked
It's gone the way of Kingsize Magazine - I think that lasted two issues.
Music mag Rip & Burn gets sacked
It was terrible. It was the culmination of the throwaway society we've developed into. Artists make albums with tracks in a set order, to be heard as a record, and this magazine said 'sod that, just download the good stuff'. If that kind of approach had taken off, it would have been a dark day for music...
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Well I often take that attitude especially with dance stuff.
Music mag Rip & Burn gets sacked
its a shite magazine. no need for the snow patrol comment though. and also i never throw a magazine in the bin half way through. its like this compulsive disorder i have where i have to read to the end in case i miss something special that could change my life. or something.
Music mag Rip & Burn gets sacked
I couldn't quite work out why you'd wanna make the process of finding mp3s on mp3 sites easier, whilst filling the magazine with every release under the sun and gigantic 500 track features on genres.
Frustratingly, there were some good ideas in the mag, like the New for Old Indie feature where it told people who liked Talking Heads to check out Tom Vek and other less obvious suggestions.
Could've been a positive move forward, but just turned into a messy list of everything and the kitchen sink.
Frustratingly, there were some good ideas in the mag, like the New for Old Indie feature where it told people who liked Talking Heads to check out Tom Vek and other less obvious suggestions.
Could've been a positive move forward, but just turned into a messy list of everything and the kitchen sink.
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As a Talking Heads fan I'd be disgusted to be pointed at Tom Vek. Christ...
Music mag Rip & Burn gets sacked
I've won a video camera in one of their competitions apparently. I hope they still send it!
I liked Bang magazine. It was just a wee bit mad which was nice. That folded too, as has X-Ray for the forseeable future. Looks like Drowned in Sound in the way forward.
I liked Bang magazine. It was just a wee bit mad which was nice. That folded too, as has X-Ray for the forseeable future. Looks like Drowned in Sound in the way forward.
Music mag Rip & Burn gets sacked
I'd never even heard of the thing...
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do you never go into shops? they always had lots.
Rip & Burn: RiP
bring back melody maker i say. er, then again...
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I liked bang magazine.
There needs to be a decent monthly music magazine, Q is just terrible.
There needs to be a decent monthly music magazine, Q is just terrible.
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I got the Tom Vek album today and kept thinking of Talking Heads... I had never seen the comparison until now.
The good bits, anyway. I found a fair bit of it quite dull.
The good bits, anyway. I found a fair bit of it quite dull.
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Yep, I thought Bang was good. It had excellent writers like Neil Kulkarni (also late of Melody Maker) - what happened to him? I used to love his writing.
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No, I still miss Melody Maker. But DiS has filled the gap more than adequately :-)
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And DiS is free. Unless Sean has some nefarious plan up his sleeve...
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How did my post in ANY WAY attack Snow Patrol?
I simply questioned the validity of a magazine claiming to be a 'new music bible' whilst putting a band that had been touring a million-selling album with top ten hits etc for the past year on the front cover.
Who is that actually new to?
I simply questioned the validity of a magazine claiming to be a 'new music bible' whilst putting a band that had been touring a million-selling album with top ten hits etc for the past year on the front cover.
Who is that actually new to?
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a bit like the net then
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He has. Soon you will have to pledge to give away your first born (either now or when he/she arrives) in order to be able to read the news items.
Rip & Burn: RiP
it was a pretty shite idea for a mag, and is was uselessly targeted
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Bang was cool until they changed the paper stock of the front cover. It was a good matte finish, and felt really nice in your hands. Shame that that cunt Steven Wells was a contributor though - he slagged off 'Dirty' by Sonic Youth and i'll never forgive the magazine for printing it.
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damn...im going to miss little zackrasta Jr.
his mamma is going to be pissed at me...just hope I dont have to give up the other 12.
his mamma is going to be pissed at me...just hope I dont have to give up the other 12.
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Well that's a sad thing, but you have to consider whether Swells slagging things off makes people go and hunt them out in a kind of 'opposite effect' type of thing.
While I like Dirty, he can get away with it if he was slagging it comparatively against stuff like Daydream Nation, Sister and Evol, in my view. :D
While I like Dirty, he can get away with it if he was slagging it comparatively against stuff like Daydream Nation, Sister and Evol, in my view. :D
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Didn't he write for Metal Hammer as well? Maybe he's on the deli at Morrison's nowadays. Who knows?
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Kulkarni was writing for LLSS too.
No idea what he's doing now.
No idea what he's doing now.
Rip & Burn: RiP
I dont bother buying Q or any music mag, unless the Wire has a decent article
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Well, once my newsagents had run out of that dirty porn mag, the NME, so she gave me a rip&burn for free - it says it all when the newsagent is willing to give a magasine away. it was ca'lame'ities.
But a physical DiS mag would be amazing...
But a physical DiS mag would be amazing...
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Don't think there's any need for DIS to go 'paper'.
Why risk it? People read the site - going print ups expenses which'll lead to people NOT reading it as they'll then have to pay for it!
Why risk it? People read the site - going print ups expenses which'll lead to people NOT reading it as they'll then have to pay for it!
Rip & Burn: RiP
Kulkarni writes for Plan B still. This issue he's ranting righteously about racism in the music industry. Makes some very good points too. One of the few writers who comes up with inspiring, rabble rousing stuff that makes you pump your fist in the air and shout YES! He has that man on the edge quality combined with great jokes. What a dude.
He also does loads of stuff for Kerrang and DJ mag.
Loose Lips is on a hiatus while Gullick works on his band but it'll be back sometime...
He also does loads of stuff for Kerrang and DJ mag.
Loose Lips is on a hiatus while Gullick works on his band but it'll be back sometime...
Rip & Burn: RiP
Good riddance.
Bang was good to start with, then all the good writers quit.
Bang was good to start with, then all the good writers quit.
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Nah, Bang's only letdown was that it occasionally printed shit by Jimmy "iv got a face like a cunt" Carr. its reviews were usually really good, better than all the other mags anyway.
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Kulkarni does the hip hop reviews for DJ Mag. Best thing in the magazine by FAR.
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Wow.
We're like the Neil Kulkarni Appreciation Society, or something.
I found LLSS #1 under some shelves the other day... hopefully it'll come back at some point.
We're like the Neil Kulkarni Appreciation Society, or something.
I found LLSS #1 under some shelves the other day... hopefully it'll come back at some point.
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Do people not read Plan B here? If people want a quality music mag it already exists. Just because its not in WH Smiths doesn't mean its not available you know.
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Plenty of people do.
There's another thread saying so, somewhere.
There's another thread saying so, somewhere.
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