Future Music magazine closing after 32 years

[mjolnir]

I used to read:

CMJ monthly
Keyboard
EQ
Mix
Sound On Sound
Computer Music
Future Music
Electronic Musician
Urb
Punk Planet

This is upsetting news to me.

[kritikon]

Surprised it was still going up to now. Must admit I found it useful on occasion many, many years ago, but it doesn't take much personal development to go past the intended audience for something like FM. I remember it killing the odd hour of waiting around time in Airports as it was the only thing worth reading in the duty-free shops, rather than drinking myself stupid in the airport bar. Although if I'm honest I probably drank myself stupid in the airport bars while reading music mags...

[dexrow]

I am looking at landr and it is pretty close to being a publication with new software and samples coming in. I would think that someone like cakewalk would want to buy computer music magazine it to add to their subscription service. I subscribe to computer magazine and landr and buy beat magazine (The English version of the German magazine) from time to time. I would think there are various sample services that would love to add that to their subscription.

[elassi]

It's in the comments. It was quite the controversy back then.

Same happened to the "Keyboards" magazine many years ago. Similar story: they used pirated software for a review.