Something Close to Unique
My overall approach, though, is to act as if everyone could find something in every one of our books. On the one hand, that’s pretty mad, and it’s also bad publishing — you need to identify your audience and publish into it. But on the other, the best kind of a scene is the one you didn’t realize you were a part of until it was over.
Andrew Stevens talks to Soft Skull Press Publisher Richard Nash about independent publishing, ‘scenes’ and financial restructuring…
Nocturnal Emissions IV
Every January the magazine previews the big albums of the coming twelve months and every year Kerrang! is told on good authority that Axl’s long-awaited Chinese Democracy album is in the bag and on the way and a preview piece is subsequently penned. But it never arrives. It’s the Waiting for Godot of the hard rock world, an endless act played across the stage of the gossip columns and rock rag new round-up’s, where our anticipation of this unseen entity far exceeds its actual arrival.
Ben Myers discovers the missing link between Beckett and Guns N’ Roses in his latest column for 3:AM.