This is a slick glossy looking publication from Florida, with a cover story on Nine Inch Nails. I had high hopes for it, but was let down just a few pages into the magazine. The first article is called “DJs Suck” and it’s about how much DJs suck and about how much local DJs suck and so on and so forth. Then there’s a bizarre editorial decision to interview LTJ Bukem, an article on circuit bending, another interview with DJ Carl Cox, and finally one with Amon Tobin. What? Also spliced in there is a terrible amateurish article entitled “L.A. Women,” which is really nothing more than an excuse to paste in a picture of Laetitia Casta in her underwear. A thoroughly professional-looking magazine is marred by these terrible slights, which prevent the magazine (which is otherwise fine) from becoming a very well put together publication. (Kevin Jagernauth)
music magazine, vol. 2, iss. 1, 40 pgs, $3.75 Can/$2.75 U.S., Mike Ramirez (ed.), 19478 Colorado Circle, Boca Raton, FL, 33434, USA, www.bluedivide.com