Music journalism has gone into the toilet over the past decade.

I just don't see in any publication where the next Caitlyn Moran , Taylor Parkes or Danny Kelly is going to come from.

Music publications have always had questionable editorial policy due to the nature of the industry , but a good journalist made them much more readable.

Yucky... that left a bad taste in my mouth.

It must have took them forever to think of "Punk and Disorderly" and "Sugar and Spikes".

Rolling Stone is well written though, so when they do positive reviews on classic rock artists I like it is usually okay. Never heard of NME...

I don't even know if their still in print but Circus and Hit Parader was nothing more than a bunch of posters with fan boi reviews written around them.

NME is just as bad... maybe even worse.

Hit Parader was the worst. Their lists were terrible.... more appalling than Rolling Stones.

Well, its hard to pick just one when all of them express some degree of awfulness. SPIN or Rolling Stone if I had to pick just one, but meh...

Seeing that AP cover almost makes me appreciate Pitchfok though. Almost.

AP was good in their first few years, but got steadily worse:

April '89:
http://altpress.com/images/issues/cover_023oct89_lg.jpg

May '08:
http://altpress.com/images/issues/co..._1may08_lg.jpg

Yeah, AP isn't even "alternative" anymore.