Alarm (magazine)
 Aaron Turner on the cover of Alarm |
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| Editor | Chris Force |
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| Categories | Musicians, Artists |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Publisher | Chris Force |
| First issue | 1995 |
| Company | Alarm Press |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Chicago, Illinois |
| Language | English |
| Website | www.alarmpress.com |
| ISSN | 1555-8819 |
Alarm is a quarterly magazine based in Chicago, IL, USA that publishes "Music and Art Beyond Comparison." It covers emerging and mid-career musicians and artists with a focus on independent, underground, or otherwise non-mainstream music and art. It also covers fashion, film, toys, and electronic media to a lesser extent.
Editor/publisher Chris Force founded the magazine in 1995 in Connecticut. The magazine then moved to Boston, MA. The magazine moved to Chicago in 2002.
The magazine includes a sizable music reviews section, interviews with bands, musicians, visual and performing artists. There are also in-depth features, columnists, book and film reviews, and music and art listings. Past issues have featured Brooklyn Rappers, Polish Folk bands, Japanese pop singers, Chinese punk bands,California graffiti artists, train-hopping hobo craftsmen, and Hopi katsina artists. The magazine has also done features on well-known artists such as The Ramones, Queens of The Stone Age, Eels (band), Glenn Danzig, and Saul Williams.
The SF Weekly coined ALARM a "hipster journal".[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Graffiti To Gallery" SF Weekly, 09-01-2001.
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