[Af_List] THS: Wire

[Steve Kerr]

Woh - this is like Wire Magazine : True Hollywood Story!

Even though these stories are (very) dodgy from journalistic integrity
point of view, it also makes it all the more incredible/admirable that
'they' keep the mag running, and to a consistent high standard, at that.
There's obviously a lot of love there, someone's not getting paid!

I guess Wire OWNS its niche, and there won't be a bunch of mulitnational
mag publishers clambering to set up competing titles - I think Soul Jazz
is about the most 'corporate' advertising I've seen there.




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> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:22:50 +1300
> From: "rosy parlane" <rparlane at gmail.com>
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> sigma editions was actually contacted by the wire once to see if we
> wanted to advertise in an issue where they were reviewing 3 of our
> releases.
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> we didn't take out an ad,  and the reviews were never published.
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> curious...
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> rp
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:21:57 +1300
>> From: PseudoArcana <p-arcana at paradise.net.nz>
>> Subject: [Af_List] Wire
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>> The Wire has to balance books like everyone else.
>> The review that Stephen posted of the Stumps album is an interesting
>> case.
>> I stayed with Chris Moon, the guy who runs Last Visible Dog when I was
>> in
>> the US. He had recently paid several hundred US dollars to place an ad
>> in
>> the Wire. He had done this because he was perplexed that no one was
>> reviewing the cds he was posting them.
>> Someone tipped him off that if he paid for an ad this might change.
>> Since doing this practically all the CDs he has released since then have
>> been reviewed.
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>> I should add that I got exactly the same story from the people who run
>> the
>> twothousandand label...
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>> I still consider The Wire a great zine (despite the fact that they
>> haven't
>> reviewed any professionally pressed PseudoArcana CD I've sent them
>> besides
>> the Peter Wright one... (thanks Jon)), but yeah- they necessarily run
>> according to an all too familiar business model. I guess something to
>> bear
>> in mind is that without incentivising the advertising they probably
>> wouldn't
>> have the money to publish at all.
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>> Antony Milton/ PseudoArcana
>> PO Box 24409
>> Wellington 6142
>> New Zealand
>> pseudoarcana.com
>> myspace.com/pseudoarcana
>> myspace.com/antonymilton
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>> New releases.
>> The Stumps. -'The Black Wood'. (CD. Last Visible Dog).
>> A.M- 'Orla'. (CD. Ikiusuus).
>> Antony Milton.- 'The End of this Short Road'. (CD. Deserted Village)
>> Mrtyu.- 'Blood Tantra'. (2CD. 20 Buck Spin).
>> The Stumps.- 'Split Fleet Dodge'. (LP. Palindrone).
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>> PseudoArcana:
>> Aan. -'Ajaton Vie'. CDR/Book
>> Glory Fckn Sun. -'Vision Scorched' CD/72pp Book.
>> Dialing In. -'Cows in Lye' CD.
>> The Lost Domain. - 'Palace' CD.
>> CJA.- 'Pink Metal' 2xCDR in full colour book.
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