tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680544609348773817.post1049443382712752657..comments2024-03-27T23:58:19.357-07:00Comments on The Hideaway: Polygram/Chronicles CMJ: THE YEAR IN MUSIC Series [1998]HERChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00361888365133381438noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680544609348773817.post-57636125982634208822014-02-17T09:33:43.109-07:002014-02-17T09:33:43.109-07:00You brought up something I didn't cover in my ...You brought up something I didn't cover in my post, Martin. In 1993, CMJ launched a monthly magazine called CMJ New Music Monthly which came with a CD. It lasted 156 issues before folding in 2009. Subscribers at the time had their subscriptions filled out by the <i>original</i> CMJ publication which was called CMJ New Music Report which also came with a CD. Think of New Music Monthly as the Entertainment Weekly to New Music Report's Billboard like publication; the former was consumer oriented while the latter was all business. <br /><br />The print edition of New Music Report lasted another year before becoming an online only publication. Subscribers can download weekly PDF issues and even get a monthly music mixtape to download.<br /><br />For me, it is kind of sad to read back issues of both magazines as so many acts were given prime coverage yet never made it past one or two albums. The hype was often misplaced and the editorial stance as to what college music was did not change as fluidly or rapidly as the actual music played on campus radio.<br /><br />As for those free CDs, they were definitely more miss than hit and that was by design. Labels were only giving CMJ tracks they could distribute for small promotional consideration so their was a lot of crap. That being said, some good to great stuff slipped through every now and then. I've kept maybe thirty CMJ discs, both Certain Damage (which came with New Music Report) and New Music Monthly discs.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing.HERChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00361888365133381438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680544609348773817.post-74493754023748686332014-02-17T07:49:35.238-07:002014-02-17T07:49:35.238-07:00I too liked five from 1979. I go with eight on 19...I too liked five from 1979. I go with eight on 1980 and on 1981. Only one fails me on 1982 (I never heard of Nick the Stripper).<br /><br />In the 90's I subscribed to CMJ after I found it on the newsstand. I like that it included a CD with every issue with 20 to 25 tracks. I have about six or seven years of a run from them. A lot of hit and miss on the disks.Martin Maenzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08640466353011569116noreply@blogger.com