but 2/10 is absurd, also.

I used to read Kerrang alot. They gave Mono's 'Gone' 1/5 and said it was dull. However, they gave Minus's 1st and 2nd albums 5/5 which is good

i rarely read anything printed other than Uncut. seems to have by far the best most interesting articles. Q and kerrang are crap. crap crap crap. altho i used to read K! every week religiously. (they did have 3 really good articles i can remember: one with trent reznor talking about asshole DJs, 1 with eddie vedder and 1 with Fugazi) so i cant hate K! really. they have done some good

but, im rambling. internet mags are better. i just found http://www.stylusmagazine.com <----ace!

from age 14-15ish then Q for a bit then the NME for a bit with The Fly on occasion coz its free.
Now nothing (including DiS really - I have friends that would disown me for being on these boards)

cover many new bands and introduce me to lots of interesting music. dont let the cover-stars put you off (they need make some moneys). their reviews are often very reliable.

And I don't really pay much attention to reviews unless I've never heard of the band.

They seem to have a habit of getting things wrong. I remember seeing this one a few years ago:

http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/sleaterkinney/woods?q=sleater-kinney

Although I'm glad to say I never bothered with Q. Always been rubbish. At least NME was good once.

but I do pick up Plan B occasionally as well as The Fly or The Stool Pigeon - The Fly is pretty poor but I quite like the Stool Pigeon. Its layout is eye-punishing stuff, though.

i used to read q & nme, then i read careless talk, then i read plan b and wire. now i only read feminist zines.

Most don't get it right a tenth of the time. You're right about "Silent Shout" though. The only reason I post on DiS is that they had Liars and No Age in the top 10 of the 2007 top 50 and Deerhunter at 11 when everone else was going bonkers for Arcade Fire- DiS did have some glaring oversights and some real ripe shite in there too though- but I forgive.

Well written, if a bit middle aged.

Can be bloody hard to find.

has come on leaps and bounds. It feels like the music I'm into now is so authentic and pioneering, whereas the stuff I was listening to two years ago is just utterly bland in comparison.

of the best albums ever.

It blows my mind every time I listen to it.

I used to read Q when I was a student (not too many years ago). I didn't quite realise how crap it was back then. I think the turning point was when Coldplays's X&Y got a ridiculously OTT review. It read like it was written before they had even heard the album.

Now I don't read magazines too often - the internet is more convenient and more up to date. If I do buy mags, I tend to buy them according to who is on the cover...

I'd buy it every week, first thing on a Wednesday morning. Then I started buying Rock Sound, which was much better as it came with a free, and a result got into bands like These Arms Are Snakes, Isis, Converge, Cave In etc...then I stopped buying magazines and just got hold of free fanzines such as Fracture. These days I buy Wire magazine from time to time, and maybe Rock A Rolla when I can get hold of it.

I went from Kerrang to Artrocker (from when it first started) to Plan B + an occasional look through The Wire these days.

I have read Mojo / Uncut / The Word pretty much throughout.

The Word is easily the best written if a tad middle aged. Uncut is a bit naff.

NME and Q aren't worth looking at.

I live in a newsagent.

But I've just been reading some of those pieces from when it closed - man, they had some great writers if that's anything to go by...

He used to get this magazine called Visions sent over every month or whatever.

I liked it, despite the fact that my German language skills are pretty second-rate. It had a really nice simple, clean layout, no mega OMG MCR! covers, and covered a nice wide range of music.

I've still never managed to find a music magazine in this country that I've been entirely convinced by. The more mainstream magazines are all a wee bit too much about trying to "out-shout" each other with lairy looking covers.

The metal magazines can be OK sometimes, but I generally tend to disagree with a lot of the bands they favour, with them always seeming to go for the "if it's got more drums and faster guitars, it must be good" approach.

I keep wanting to like Rock-A-Rolla, but I found it to be pretty badly put together, and a bit tedious to read to be honest.

Maybe I'll just print off some pages from DiS every couple of weeks... (on the work printer of course!)

for albums i really like on metacritic, like... http://www.drawerb.com/2004/01/27/the-unicorns-who-will-cut-your-hair-when-were-gone-alien8/

"I'm just astounded by how bad this album actually is. It's a complete wanking nerdfest..."

to be from N.Ireland cos we have the best music magazine i've ever read.

it covers really good music not dissimilar to dis, its really funny, has brilliant features n you get a really good cd every month!

Its called AU Magazine. It has now branched out to the whole of Ireland due to popularity. You should really check it out.

This month it features Nick Cave, Fighting With Wire, Be Your own pet, operator please, Youthmovies, The Fall, MGMT etc.

If I read the phrase "rock Gods" in the same sentence as "U2" or "Oasis", I will silently scream.