As Loud As Possible.
I guess it's not much mentioned in SI forum yet, but I should underline, that this is magazine not to miss! And note, that it's now also available from FA distribution, with international shipping mere 2 euro!
I would like to say, that this is THE noise magazine. Surely there has been magazine before, and will be after, and each of them delivers their angle for the noise. But if you look for something, which is:
1) well written
2) about bands that matter, guaranteed
3) with abundance of content
There simply isn't any competition. One could simply look at the targets of many of these articles. First of all, there are many, which seem to be guys, who you simply can't get hold of. But ALAP has. There are bands and labels, who never really gave decent interviews or were targets of articles by people who know what they write about. But now they have been covered. One wonders about the task what this Broken Flag article has been? It's not only that pretty much all is covered, but also from angle of artist, the label and possibly more. I would think if you'd ask could this be made by anyone else than mr. Underwood, I'd say.. no? Or hell no! With no disrespect to any journalist out there, or my own possibilities, I still believe, this is far more advanced that pretty much anything done before. You may look at the groundbreaking publications a'la Industrial Culture Handbook... but that was.. back in 1984 was it?
So what ALAP could do more? Perhaps only to make it annual happening. Who should they cover? Hopefully some of those you rarely hear about, but who have made impact. Perhaps the UK guys they might be able to speak to. Comes to my mind... Contrastate? Apostles? Mnemonists? The bizarre material between the post-punk & noise, between free music & noise, older avantgarde? I would find it good, that since I believe the staff knows and has abundance of good stuff to be written about, they could reject the too obvious "scene noise". Which they pretty much have, although not entirely? I mean, I am up to promotion of good contemporary noise, and those who are active now and "need" the publicity, but....
