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Not for kids!
I ordered this subscription for my three year old son who is a Batman maniac. When the magazine arrived I thought the violence was far too graphic. I am not an overly protective mom but this comic was going to raise questions I wasn't planning to answer for a few more years. I am giving the comic to my 13 year old god son instead. ... Read more

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Features articles, short stories, poetry, games, activities and recipes for children ages 6-8.
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Fun Magazine, Age Appropriate, No Ads
Children's Playmate delivers quite a bit of content that is age appropriate and fun for my first grader. He enjoys the activities and stories. He does most of his independent reading in the children's magazines we get him, so this has definitely enriched his reading development.

Highly recommend this magazine. We also get Jack and Jill (his favorite) and US Kids! ... Read more

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Over run by mainstream trash and idiots
Remember back a year or two ago when Metal Edge was an awesome magazine with some credibility? Good, now let's have a moment of silence to commemerate that time, because since then this magazine has died and gone to hell. Every interview asks the same questions another interview did a month or two back. Every interviewer kisses the a** of whoever they're interviewing. If a band made just made a horrible album they still call it gold. Anything the person their interviewing says they agree with. Absolutly no integrity to found in this magazine anymore. The bands they cover these days have little to nothing to do with metal. LIT, Silvertide, American Rejects, the Distillers, Juliette and the Licks and many other very un-metal bands have appeared in their pages in the past year. They also love to cover nu-metal and bands that used to be popular but that no one cares about anymore. Every once in a blue moon they'll cover a band worth covering and there's Mike G's column but other than that there's not much to like about this magazine. Reading this magazine reminds me of High School, got a bunch of people pretending to be something their not while they make their lips bloody by kissing so much a**. Rock and metal are getting popular now but at the expense of the art form's integrity. Any time you go to a show now you run into those annoying wannabe rebel posers who think they are the guru's of music and life in general, just like you would run into all the rich little kids pretending to be gangsta's a year or two back. Stupid a** magazine's like Metal Edge and the people who work for it and support it hurt metal more than they help it. If metal staying in the underground is the price that has to be paid for keeping idiots and posers out of the scene than I'm all for it. The only reason I didn't give this one star is because it will ocasionally have cool posters. Definitly not worth a 30$ subscribtion or even 5 bucks at the store but I would recommend ripping off the posters every once in a while. For real metal journalism with some integrity check out Metal Maniacs, the internet, Revolver and, if your rich enough, some of the european metal mags.

Okay.....
Well, there are a lot of good things about this magazine, but there are also a lot of bad ones, and some useless parts as well... let's break this down....
Good:
*They cover interesting bands like society 1, and other lesser-known bands
*the interviews are pretty interesting
*the Roundup section can be absolutely hillarious

Bad:
*The photography. The pinups are pretty crappy. they are usually are blurry or dark live shots of bands that no one really cares about anyway. Who really needs *another* blurry live photo of Jon Davis?
*The editing. Whoever proofreads this must be absolutely blind! I have been reading this magazine for almost 3 years, and there has not been a single issue that is free of errors. Now I don't mind a couple accidental errors that aren't that noticable, but when they misspell someone's name in a years worth of issues, that gets rather annoying. Metal Edge spelled the lead singer of Flaw, Chris Volz as Chris Nolz for an entire year. That was pretty annoying.

The Useless:
*Metalhead Directory. Now this section is for penpals.... have you people ever heard of the Internet? If you can afford to buy a magazine, you can afford to buy a month of AOL, now can't you? And most of the people who write in to this section are prisoners anyway. So if you've always wanted to be in contact with a prisoner, check this out!
*The list of websites. Most of the sites on here are old sites, and a good portion of them don't work anyway. it's not that hard to find a band's website. there's no real reason to print 5 pages of it a month!
* The posters. Now, don't get me wrong, I love posters, but recently, they've switched to tear-out posters, instead of simply removing the staples from the magazine and putting them back. The tear out posters are annoying, because it is nearly impossible to take them out without practically ripping the poster in half. What's the point of having half of Static-X on your wall? and if you try to repair it, it looks terrible!
*The calendar. If they are going to continue to use a calendar, they should make that tear-out as well. What usually ends up happening is that half of the band's heads will be cut off by the binding, so you pull out the calendar, only to find.... Half of Godsmack's faces!! so I suppose if you're looking for pictures of half of godsmack's faces, you know where to look.
*The cd reviews. These might as well be in another language, because you have to be fluent in moron to understand them... they put strings of massive words together to make sentences that sound really cool, but mean absolutely nothing. They should really just tell people if the album is good or not....

so basically, it's up to you... there are some good things about it, and some bad... choose wisely!

great magazine but........
hey, metal edge is great but it focused on interviews with only some bands like 4 interviews with korn and it doesn't focused much on women in rock with reports or interviews. ihave only seen ONE 10 report on women in rock. metal edge also needs more interviews with kittie, otep, my ruin, and other bands with females in it.

www.metalsludge.com
forget about this piece of crap. You wanna learn THE REAL TRUTH about your fave bands? Here's the adress; www.metalsludge.com.
Say hi to Stillbourne for me.

Rock on!
This magazine is awesome if you are looking for your fav. Metal artists!It also has a lot of products for sell: chokers, concert shirts, posters, almost anything punk, and no pop stuff!It also usually comes with four large posters.It's really cool, I love it! ... Read more

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The epitomy of all music magazines.
Whether you are into hard music or not, whether you are a Christian or not, there is plenty of good stuff carefully invested in each page of HM magazine. The news keeps you on your toes with pointers that you actually care about. There is a notably diverse range of music covered, with a special emphasis on hard music and indie music-- "Christian" bands, mind you (whatever that means now days...) Interviews are anything but standard, and far from dull. Reviews are constructive, insightful and informative... very useful for selecting cds. There are helpful tips for guitarists and drummers, and they review gear too. For those of us who are Christian (yes I am one,) there is some great down to earth advice in the last columns on all things relevant. However, one must be interested in at least one of these two things: 1. Good music 2. Christianity. Otherwise, this zine is probably not for you. Anyhow, find out for yourself!

The Only Magazine That Matters
Once upon a time a Texas kid named Doug Van Pelt got an interview with an upcoming, young metal band called Stryper, and xeroxed a fanzine in his basement. That was Heaven's Metal. Now HM stands for Holy Mackerel--I mean, Hard Music. It's not just metal any more.

After Stryper pioneered the way, a lot of other great bands rushed down the trail--so many Doug had to make a bigger magazine to hold them all. After Doug pioneered the way, a lot of other great magazines rushed down the trail. A lot of great writers started writing about a lot of great bands. With so much to listen to, and so much to read, fans were in heaven.

But then it got hard. Some false prophet declared the end of print, and famine fell upon many zines. Doug walked sadly through the graveyard, strewn with once proud writers, past the gravestones that bore the once-proud names: Swordbearer, White Throne, Harvest Rock Syndicate, Notebored, Counter Culture. Stricken to his soul, he looked up to heaven and cried out, "I am but one soul; what can I do?" Turning, he began to gather up the wretched writers, carrying them one by one to the shelter of his Texas home.

Today, the broken writers have been nursed back to health, and Doug lets them express their writing adiction in his magazine. He includes free CDs for subscribers to help bands survive and fans get their music fix. There--did I do good, Doug? Can I go back to the kennel now? P.S.: In 2003, HM celebrated it's 100th issue, Join the celebration and subscribe! ... Read more

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WHAT'S UP WITH THE PRICE?
Uncut is without a doubt the best music mag in the world right now....but why on earth would anyone buy 12 issues for the price of 15? This mag is 8 bucks in any of the stores mentioned in the other reviews here, not 11 an issue which is what this subscription breaks down to....whats up with that?

The Best Magazine on the Planet
Some times I feel like it was written just for me. The music articles cover everything from classic rock and punk through the best of what is going on today. The movie articles have a great balance between reevaluating the great 70s and 80s films and new movies. Plus the free CDs every month are usually outstanding and have introduced me to new music I would have missed. It's an absolute must have.

Best Music Magazine Around
I'll get to the point ... if you are looking to stay abreast of what's going on in popular music, including the Indie scene, the Americana world and the major elders still around, this is as far as you need to go. The quality of the writing, be it an in-depth article (many of which are excellent) or a short review (you can expect about 200 per issue) is consistently high. Furthermore, I have been introduced to many great bands that don't even show up in any domestic magazine's radar, although -ironically- many of these bands are American. So, if you can't believe that best it gets is Spin or, much worse, Rolling Stone (how did it ever got to the low point of having Jessica Simpson on the cover ... yikes!), you will be immensely rewarded by trying Uncut. Tip: you can get any single issue at B&N, Borders or Tower Records for the same amount, that way if you don't like it you won't have to mourn 100 bucks.

A High Five Rating for this Grreat Pix-Musix Adumbrating
This is the one that I subscribe to, even though, strictly speaking, Q magazine does a better job of covering contempo musica mondo. Uncut is for those of us who feel nostalgic for popular music figures whose stuff has held up over time. The writing is superior, VASTLY superiour to anything in print today. This is because the mag is staffed by geezers who cut their teeth writing for the likes of the NME and probably something like the top of the pops back in the day. The writers are veterans and this is good for a number of reasons, among them is that they bring great perspective, journalistic professionalism, acute insights, otherwise forgotten trivia and the realization there is more to life than just listening to the tunes, i.e. there is a whole other culture happening simultaneously, to their writing. Actually, apart from the FEATURE ARTIST feature, this magazine is more about film, past and present, and I love this aspect of it because the editors choose an actor, director, genre or actor/director and focus in on the oevre of xhosen subject and then just lay out a whole wackawackapacka stuff that you are definitely going to go out and buy/ rent/ borrow and view. I ALWAYS find a new movie that I have just GOT to watch after reading my latest edition of UNCUT. Plus, each issue comes with a complimentary CD. The selections on these CD's is spotty and I find that the poor ones I spin through just a couple of times, the good ones, I keep and play lots. You won't be sorry that you subscribed to this mag but you will likely be sorry that you didn't if you ever get the chance to see what you missed by not doing so.

Fed up with Rolling Stone? Check this one out..
Well, it might not be quite the same level as Rolling Stone, remember clout and tradition have something to do with the interviews THEY can get. The writing and reviews are a lot better... since it's British it gives quite a different spin on things and emphasizes other than the mainstream. The downside is the price...You do get a free cd, which is cool I guess. ... Read more

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Perfect for the lover of classical and opera music
Each issue is full of reviews of orchestral, chamber, isntrumental, choral, opera and world music, with additional information about equipment for the audiophile. ... Read more

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Features articles on narrative, documentary and independent film makers, filmography, film criticism and book reviews.
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Targeted toward the dumbest marks.
Now, there's nothing wrong with being a mark. At some point in their life, every wrestling fan was a mark. Now with the growing popularity of the internet, more and more fans are becoming smarks (which has the potential to eventually put this magazine out of business).

Back in 1998, I was a mark. I was addicted to the WWF and had to have every piece of merchandise on it that I could find. Also back then, since SmackDown! hadn't even debuted yet, this magazine was just simply called "WWF Magazine". Needless to say, I got myself a two-year subscribtion and was usually enthusiastic when it came in the mail.

When I got a bit older (and smarter), I realized just how bad this magazine was. It's obviously just targeted to marks, since all of the columns act like everything in wrestling is 100% real. If that wasn't bad enough, the writers of these columns try to make it seem like these are deep, thought-provoking issues, and even try to travel into the minds of what these fictional characters are possibly thinking.

Another thing that bugged me was how outdated this magazine always was. For example, I'd get an issue an February, and all they'd be talking about was stuff that happened in December. It's sometimes ebarassing when you read an article that questions "How long will the fued between The Rock and Ken Shamrock last?", when in reality, the fued already ended long ago. That's just the thing about wrestling - it's a fast-paced business and everything can change at the drop of a hat.

WWE hardcore fan
Smackdown magazine gives you the inside details of your favorite wrestlers [good and bad]. If you like Thursday Smackdown then this magazine is for YOU! PLUS, the pictures are awesome. Most of the time the poster they have in WWE magazine are really great to hang on the wall.
It gets even better! If you get both Raw and Smackdown magazine deliver to your house you won't be dissappointed. It has high impact photos, interviews of your favorite wrestlers, up coming shows and payper view that might come to your area and so much more!
Smack your computer and order it NOW!

A WWE fans DREAM
This magazine is great. It goes inside smackdown and talks personally with some of the smackdown talent. This is a great magazine and i recomend it to any WWE fan even if you don'y watch snackdown, it's good way to keep in touch with the wrestling world!

A Bad Magazine
This magazine started out as WWE Magazine then they decided to change the name to Smackdown Magazine and what was worse is that they didn't even give people a chance to cancel their subscription if they wanted to. This magazine is nothing but a piece of crap!!!! ... Read more

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A Jamband Favorite
This is my favorite magazine. I don't have much time to go to concerts these days, but Relix keeps me tuned in with the Jamband music scene. They recently redesigned their magazine and I think that it appeals to a much larger audience now. They do everthing from camping equipment reviews to music reviews to in-depth articles on bands... anything that might relate to the live music scene. Still, they find time to devote to the Grateful Dead (The Dead, Other Ones, etc.), keeping the magazine true to its roots.

The only magazine if you are passionate about live music
RELIX is the only source for live, improvisational music. They cover the Jamband scene like no other.
If you are a musician, fan or want to learn about great music this is the magazine for you. Phish, Grateful Dead, String Cheese, Widespread Panic, Allman Brothers, Dave Mathews, they have it all! ... Read more

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They should add an "s" to their title.....
Basically, this magazine sucks. The only redeeming quality is that there are really good pictures and pinups. The articles in the magazine are basically the same every month. They just re-word it and update them a little bit. They've basically been running the same Slipknot article for 3 years now. The only good thing they've done is an article on Society 1. The other thing I noticed was that some of the information is completely false. In one article, they said that cold's self-titled cd was gold, and 13 ways to bleed onstage was approaching platinum. 13 Ways to Bleed Onstage wasn't even gold when this issue was printed. Save your money, and get Revolver or Metal Hammer instead. At least they get their facts straight. The only reason to buy this magazine would be to wallpaper your house with all the latest nu-metal (modern rock) Stars or to line a litter box. So unless you like reading the same articles month after month, stay away!

Posters are good
The only thing in the magazine i found worth anything weret he posters... They usually have articles over old bands tht many people dont care about like Velvet revolver and The darkness... And they usually have the same bands like KoRn, Manson, and Few other bands its really a bunch of crap but i buy it for the posters which are usually good!!!

TOO REPETITIVE
I THINK ITS TOO REPETITIVE ON BOTH THE ARTICLES AND THE PINUPS. THERE'S REEALLY NO POINT IN READING THE ARTICLES BECAUSE THE ARTICLES ARE PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THROUGHOUT THE MAGAZINE. THIS MAGAZINE USUALLY USES THE SAME BANDS ON THEIR COVERS. IT USUALLY INTRODUCES NEW BANDS THAT ARE ON THE SOFTER SIDE OF ROCK. I WAS SUBSCRIBED TO THIS MAGAZINE FOR A YEAR, AND I FOUND A FEW ARTICLES ON A PARTICULAR BAND TO BE EXACTLY THE SAME THING EXCEPT THE PARAGRAGHS WERE PUT IN DIFFERENT ORDER. SO SAVE UR CASH AND GET A NEW CD OR SOMETHING. ... Read more

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Review from a DJ
As a country music DJ, I have to be up on the latest in the field. Country Weekly provides me with just "the good stuff," allowing me to tell my fans the most accurate information about what's going on in the country music world. I highly recommend it!

One of the best.....
if you love country music than this is what you want to read. it will keep you up to date, along with lots of photos of what is going in and around countyr music. many of the photos are mint, and they change up the covers a lot. (esp. faith and tim) but this is a magazine that i found myself buying every week. it was just easier to have it sent to my home!!

Country Weekly
I have subscribed to other country music magazines before and have never been as satisfied as I am with Country Weekly. The articles are written for easy, believable reading and feature the favorites, the oldies and the up-and-coming artists.....and written with "good taste". Saying I read it from "cover to cover" is appropriate. Each issue is read very quickly. My husband and mother-in-law have become avid readers since I bought my first issue. Thank you for the opportunity to share my opinion.

country weely makes me up to date about music and singers
I'm from Brazil, it's hard to find in ours newspaper and magazines something about country music. We used to see CMT Brazil , but they changed the subject and it's now just like a MTV , a bad one. I'm fanatic about Mrs. Emmylou Harrys and Country Songs also. I've about 500 CDs from Country Music, I knew the news in the Country weekly magazine but it cames to Brazil with 2 months late, and failled some issues. So I'm on the road again looking for Copuntry Music. ... Read more

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Fanfare and I are now celebrating our 20th anniversary.
I have been collecting classical music recordings, now, for nearly a half-century, beginning in the mid-50s (my high school years) with a few monophonic LPs, and even the odd 45 or two: basically, whatever my "walking-around" money was able to cover. Once I was in college, with the sorts of interpersonal interactions that such "close living" encourages, my record collecting became both more varied and more frenetic. And I can identify those college years with the introduction of stereophonic recordings. It was also at this time that I discovered the first two monthly magazines having classical music recording reviews: High Fidelity and HiFi Review (later, Stereo Review).

For the most part, these two magazines (and a few others long fallen by the wayside) covered my music-buying needs for nearly three decades. But, in early 1983, when the CD was launched, I began a re-rationalizing of music purchases, thanks to the permanence of the CD medium.

Enter Fanfare, nearly exactly 20 years ago as I write this. CDs were finally making a big impact on the domestic music industry. (My early CD acquisitions had been from overseas sources, where the CD launch was several months ahead of the domestic launch.) Record stores were stocking new CD titles like mad. And one such store, specializing in classical music, had "retail" copies of Fanfare for sale at the check-out counter. So I bought a copy, along with several CDs.

It turns out that that was both the first and the last such over-the-counter copy of Fanfare that I purchased. The content of that first copy of Fanfare was so incredible that I've been a subscriber ever since. There were so many reviews, so many meaningful interviews with musicians and record label executives, and so many advertisements for this new music medium that I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. (Oh, I'd tried other music review sources as well, many of them, such as CD Reviews, now long gone. Others, such as Gramophone and the British Penguin Guide, seemed too parochial for me. And Fanfare's main competitor over the years, the American Record Guide, just seemed too biased by the publisher's individualistic tastes.)

The average size of a current semi-monthly copy of Fanfare (which is a signal event each time it turns up in my mailbox) is smaller than it once was, thanks to the problems the music industry is presently going through. Whereas it once used to take me the full two months to totally digest its cover-to-cover contents, just in time for the next isssue to show up, now it takes me somewhat less. But it is still the best bargain around for the serious music lover, and it is still the best single source for the widest variety of reliable opinions on music and recording releases. ("Reliable" opinions don't necessarily imply opinions with which one agrees; no one can or will agree with all reviewers or critics. But they DO mean that, once one becomes familiar with the scopes and tastes of individual reviewers, those reviewers' opinions are accurate predictors of one's expectations.)

Over the years, Fanfare has had some of the very best music opinion writers on its staff of reviewers, reading like a "Who's Who" of the field. It still does, and many of these reviewers have been with Fanfare for a long time. While I have a "mind of my own," I nonetheless can rely on these reviewers for their thoughtful analyses.

I guess my favorite feature of Fanfare is the annual (November/December) "Wish List" issue, in which each reviewer sets out his or her five most-wanted recordings of the year. I find it fascinating to compare my own "wish list" to theirs, even though our tastes may vary dramatically. This feature, probably more than any other, has led me to explore new repertoire and artists that I might otherwise have ignored.

And, finally, Fanfare has a nicely liberal attitude toward publishing readers' letters and comments. I've had a few of my own published, and can even state that, in at least one instance, my thoughts on a particular recording has had the effect of changing a reviewer's mind from a postion he previously had held.

My hat is off to Joel Flegler, the publisher of Fanfare, whose unvarying vision and open-mindedness regarding his reviewing staff over a quarter-century has made this journal the benchmark of the music-reviewing field. Thanks, Joel!

The most reliable American classical CD magazine
I've been a subscriber to Fanfare for many years and have come to regard it as the most reliable of the two comprehensive American classical CD magazines (the other being the American Record Guide). Its reviews are more scholarly than those of the ARG and tend to be longer, including more detail, more extensive comparisons with other recordings and the like. The writing style is more standard. It has a lively letters section and runs very interesting interviews with musicians as well as reviews of live performances here and abroad. I subscribe to both, but tend to pay more attention to Fanfare. ... Read more

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Find Wonder Every Month In This Great Comic Book
Though it is hard to write a review on a comic book that is constantly changing in new storylines and art, one thing to be said about the Wonder Woman comic is that it's a milestone book. Wonder Woman is one of DC Comic's flagship titles and has been around for over 60 years. Constantly pushing the limits of such topics as feminism, humanitarianism and social peace; the stories are often written from an idealistic point of view. Wonder Woman is the story of an Amazon Princess named Diana from the island of Themyscira (Paradise Island) who's mission in life is to teach the world the value of peaceful co-existance in an otherwise hostile envirnment. Which is no small task as Diana is constantly put upon by would-be anarchists. Using her gods given abilities of strength, flight, speed, wisdom and heart in her goal, Diana shows a passion that other comic book heroines have been templated off of. The only negative aspect of subscribing to the comic would be that it takes around two months for the first issue of the subscription to reach your home, and often times you can purchase the same issue you receive weeks in advance at your local comic book store. Still, if you would rather receive the book in the comfort of your own home, I would highly recommend to do so. ... Read more

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Getting focused
I must attest! As a young opera singer not in New York, I have had to do a lot to stay focused and inspired until I can get our there. I bought Classical Singer, Voice Lessons To Go (-both volumes-)by Vaccarino (voice lessons on cd they are so convenient! Wow has my ear improved form the second volume), and The Artist Way by Cameron. Now I feel like I have my own little Opera program around me! I am able to schedule myself and still feel connected to what I hope my future to be.

Keeping Classical singers in " Pitch"
I recently, for the first time, discovered the" Classical Singer". I have often dreamed of producing a magazine that gives singers like myself categorised, concise ,variety of easy to read communication on current events in the music world. Who are the current and rising stars?Where do they perform? How do I go about finding and agent? Who and where are the choruses, opera groups, to which I could apply. This magazine covers the need of a singer predominantly.
Clamoring through pages of other magazines to find a paragraph which concerns my interest is a big turn off and waist of precious time. We singers have short lives you know. The Classical singers covers all my needs and fast... ... Read more