RR Regular Makinavaja picks the playlist from last week's thread about glossies both coffee table and top shelf
Pete Paphides: My homemade pop magazine was meant to compete with Smash Hits. But what did an 11-year-old proto-critic know?
The magazine created by Mark Ellen and co is to close. For its readers, this goes much deeper than just the loss of a decent monthly read …
Maggoty Lamb: This month's foray into the frontline of music journalism finds some Spin doctors forgetting how many chords kick off Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Oh well, whatever, never mind
Tom Service: Though it's hardly known for its classical coverage, Vice's irreverent reviewing is a refreshing corrective to the isn't-everything-terrific school of classical music critique
Neil Kulkarni: Pitched as a Rolling Stone for hip-hop, Vibe magazine was dazzling, irresistable, sometimes too slick, but always compelling – which makes its demise all the more aggravating
Tim Jonze: The late, legendary NME writer, Steven Wells, always told it like it was. With extra expletives
Johnny Dee: NME Radio is good company, something that sites like Spotify can't offer, but it's just not rebellious enough