Kick out the AMPs

Posted by adam on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 10:07 AM (EDT)

The new issue of AMP is online. You know what to do:

"New issue of AMP Magazine is up now featuring an interview with every member of the almighty Only Crime (current and ex members of Good Riddance, Black Flag, Hagfish, Bane, Descendents, etc?) as well as features on Midtown, Neurosis, TheSTART, Terror, Unearth, Wayne Kramer, Cattle Decapitation, and much more. As usual, hundreds of record reviews and all of the regular columnists. The new retail version of the magazine (Flogging Molly cover; limited quantities) as well as the newly released third installment of the AMP Presents compilation CD's (featuring Dillinger Escape Plan, Glass Casket, God Forbid, Shadows Fall, The Black Dahlia Murder, and more) are available at interpunk.com now."

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Someone (August 31, 2004)

tight

Someone (August 31, 2004)

wow russ sure was talking about Good Riddance in the past tence there. looks like they may have gone bye byes without an announcement

thirtyseconds (August 31, 2004)

Nah, they have a record left in them.

Someone (August 31, 2004)

no, that can't happen, ever!

CrookedSuperhero (August 31, 2004)

It's good.

Someone (August 31, 2004)

Wow, another great issue.

Someone (August 31, 2004)

Interpunk is out of that comp again, but i got mine right from the store on thre AMP site. It was actually only $3.99 through there, and the shipping was cheaper.

Someone (August 31, 2004)

Interpunk has some good deals some time but I think they screw you on stuff. You think your getting a good price but then they charge you a shit load for shipping.

Someone (August 31, 2004)

Yeah. I think they are a great thing, especially if you live in a hick town like I do, and you can have any record that's in any store out there delivered to your house, but the shipping does suck. I guess it's better than not having it available, or having to order it from all the different places direct. Their prices are usually below regular retail prices though, so it almost sort of balances out. Sort of...

Someone (August 31, 2004)

Yeah, I go there when I cant find stuff at a local record store and Yeah their normally below retail but not much and when you factor in the $4.50-$8.00 they charge for shipping its past retail.

Someone (August 31, 2004)

Haha... did anybody read Scooters column about the christian exile web site thingy? That's the funniest shit ever. Pretty bummed though- he said it might be his last column. I will still marry him someday.

Someone (August 31, 2004)

Yeah, that was funny. I'm all about that. Another great Brian Baker story too.

Someone (August 31, 2004)

Wow, yet another Fat Wreck cover? Yay, independent journalism! I'm beginning to suspect free mags like this one work on a 'buy an ad, get some content' system. Which is cool! The adult in me likes the money idea, but the kid in me pretends to care about the music!

Someone (August 31, 2004)

Yeah.... another Fat Wreck cover. It's been 6 months since the last one, and almost a year and a half since the one before that, as far as the West Coast ones go. Quit trying to figure shit our, Sherlock Dummy. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that some of the guys in the band write for the magazine, and if you read it, you would know that the guy that owns the magazine used to tour with a couple bands that the guys used to be in. But your right, it was probably more in trade for the half page ad they got for Only Crime...... that they would have gotten anyways. Maybe the kid in you and the adult in you should fight eachother. That would be funny.

Someone (August 31, 2004)

Hahaha..... Sherlock Dummy..... hahaha. Yeah, I want to see you fight yourself too. That would rule!

Someone (September 2, 2004)

yep, that piece was written becuase only crime rules. they're an incredible band, incredible people, and deserve all the attention they are getting. besides, if you were in descendents, or black flag, or good ridance, or bane, you deserve to be on the cover. Matt

Someone (August 31, 2004)

You know, there actually are magazines like that. Skratch certainly comes to mind. But I think when you have a magazine that does such in-depth pieces like AMP, trying to swap content to get ads would just be a loosing proposition. I really think they just try to make the best mag possible, and get ads because of that. They have done some pretty random covers. I mean, Planes was a month or two ago, and they aren't big. I remember they did a Bronx cover when nobody had ever heard of them, and it was onbvious reading the columns in that issue that the people at the magazine were genuinely just blown away by the record. I agree with you that at least some of the free mags operate that way, but I certainly wouldn't just clump together all the free mags into that catagory.

Someone (August 31, 2004)

Yeah, and magazines that trade content for ads usually don't rip records to shit in their review section like amp does. They call shit shit, which usually will alienate most record labels, because they are all usually just putting out.... shit.

Someone (August 31, 2004)

Ohhhh yeah- another great day at work, doing nothing but reading... Thanks AMP.

Someone (August 31, 2004)

My apollogies for the off-topic message, but I felt that this should be said. A Ted Leo/Pharmacists song(Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone to be specific) was used in a Jenna Jamison documentary on VH1. That is all.

MrLuke (August 31, 2004)

Has Midtown been dropped from their lable yet? -MrLuke

Someone (August 31, 2004)

This rag reeks of synergy.

Someone (September 1, 2004)

Does anyone know were Amp came from it seems like this big glossy magzine just kinda came outta nowhere i have a few issues of it and it doesnt really say anything about it origins or how its run the websites the same way kinda fishy...

Someone (September 1, 2004)

Well, if you have a few issues, you should know it's hardly a glossy. I know the guy that started it used to do Hit List. Not sure what you mean about the web site and it being kind of fishy. i have every issue, and they certainly have grown alot over the last couple of years. the first issue is half the size of the new one. If you read Brett's column on the web page in the first issue, it kind f talks about the creation of AMP. I certainly don't see anything fishy.

Someone (September 2, 2004)

you got it...brett finished hit list, started AMP. nothing fishy - just a damn fine product that has grown over time, thanks to more attention being paid to it. in a genre which has very few viable options (MRR is a bit outdated, Punk Planet is whatever, and AP...yeah, right, AP...), AMP has grown due to it's content and honesty. everyone who writes for AMP loves what they do. nobody writes about bands that they dont' like. so that's important - write about what you love.