PUBLISHER/EDITOR: T Max
SR. ASSOC. EDITOR: Francis DiMenno
ASSOC. EDITORS: Joe Coughlin, Robin Umbley, Kier Byrnes, Joel Simches, Shady, Nancy Neon, Tim Emswiler, Kevin Finn
WEBMASTERS: Eleanor Ramsay, Andy Milk
"Rock Around Boston" radio host: FrankD
MySpace Maintainer: Brett McCabe
For writers, photographers, comics, copy editors, radio chart, interns, distributors, and Noise Board moderators see the credits in each print issue masthead.
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Write for The Noise! We are a local Boston music fanzine -- so if you're a local Boston music fan, then this is your zine! This is your forum for spreading the word on the best in Boston rock.
If you love music and love to tell your friends why this band rocks and that band sucks then The Noise needs you. If you appreciate being part of a local music community where a ton of great bands play live nightly, then The Noise needs you. If you can describe, in 150 words, your opinion of the last local band you went out to see, then The Noise needs you! Want to help your favorite local Boston bands generate more buzz? Then YOU need THE NOISE!
Writing for The Noise is the same as sharing your opinion on your fave local bands, except you won't just be telling the few friends who read your blog -- you'll be telling the whole entire Noise readership. Get involved -- write to tmax@thenoise-boston.com and ask for Writer's Guidelines.
Get on board with the region's longest running fanzine!
*********ABOUT The Noise**********
The Noise has been covering the local music scenes across New England, with a focus on Boston-area bands, since 1981. The Noise is unequivocally the area's longest-running fanzine.
Editor/Publisher T Max, having moved to Boston from Martha's Vineyard after art school, was playing guitar in a struggling band. He realized that the underground music scene got little coverage from the major media outlets in the area, and could use a good, in-your-face fanzine to cover local music exclusively. So he started The Noise. Local rock fans, some in bands and some just loud-mouthed music fans with an opinion, went to rock shows and wrote reviews. Bands began to send in their recordings on vinyl, cassette tape and the occasional video tape. Before long the Boston rock community turned to the Noise's pages for live reviews, record reviews, show listings, new release announcements and gossip.
Twenty-six years after its brazen beginnings, The Noise is still out there covering local music. The issues are released ten times a year (no August or January issue). Though The Noise pages are still in black & white, the old typewriter has long been replaced by a spiffy Mac and the "reviews" sections haven't covered anything on vinyl or a cassette in awhile.
Packed with feature stories on bands and artists, profiles on local music business people, live show reviews, CD reviews and, yes, gossip, today's Noise is a long way from that stapled sheaf of typewritten, photocopied pages that T Max distributed to record stores and rock clubs in 1981.
You can pick up The Noise at all the best Boston area record stores, music shops and rock clubs.
Keeping up with the fast speeds of the Information Superhighway, there's also
TheNoise-Boston.com: the Noise's online version that contains some of the features and reviews from the printed version
TheNoiseBoard.com: a Message Board that is a virtual online party all day
Weekly "Rock Around Boston" radio show on WBOS/RadioYou (Thursdays 7-9 with host FrankD)
and of course this MySpace page.
Contact T Max via tmax at thenoise-boston.com to place an ad in the issue (distribution 5000) or a banner ad on the website (daily hits 800+). Send CDs to FrankD to get airplay on the "Rock Around Boston" WBOS/RadioYou show: ATTN: FrankD
"The Rock Around Boston" Show
173 Saddle Hill Road
Hopkinton MA 01748
Be safe, rock on, read The Noise and go see a local band tonight!
Thank you Eric, thank you T Max, thank you Francis D for all the kind words and support over the years! God bless you all and thank you for making this crazy old man a cover boy at 67! See you all soon!
Thank you so much for "Bandfriending" us, The Noise! We truly appreciate it and are honored, since we've read you for many a year (and have the ink stains to prove it!).
Also, kudos on Radio You. We enjoy it, but--if we could be so bold (we could)--it is missing one essential Boston Music ingredient: G.U.S.S.Y.!
Anyway, we hope that you find something of ours that will wriggle into your ears, burrow down next to your heart (in a good way), and compel you to ROB US BLIND (again, in a good way: "Free downloads, ahoy!).
If you like us, please, tell a friend. If you hate us, hell, tell an enemy!
