(Magazines marked by an * are currently indexed)

magic (france/french)
RJRPRES: french monthly (formerly bimonthly) covering mostly international indie pop and rock. high standard both on articles and reviews makes this a worthy continuation of the excellent magic mushroom. recommended. (nov.09)

magic mushroom (france/french)
RJRPRES: this french indie-rock fanzine now continues as magic. mostly interviews with british & american acts + demo/record reviews. by now easy to recommend. discontinued.

*magnet (usa/english)
RJRPRES: rock magazine subtitled: real music alternatives. lots of interesting articles & reviews. this has now gone from monthly to bi-monthly. one of the best within its field. current status uncertain. (nov.09)

mandocrusian-s digest (the) (usa/english)
RJRPRES: american tabloid for mandolin players with instructional articles + various reviews of books & records. indispensable to people interested in the mandolin, but also of interest to the general public. discontinued.

margen (spain/spanish)
RJRPRES: spanish magazine focusing on electronic, progressive rock and experimental music. quite interesting for coverage of obscure artists through both interviews & record reviews. comes with free(?) cds. (nov.09)

màs jazz (spain/spanish)
RJRPRES: new spanish jazz bimonthly. current status unknown. possibly discontinued.

matte (usa/english)
RJRPRES: promising magazine subtitled; creative independence in art, film and music. music content focus mainly on various shades or indie rock. worth your attention. discontinued.

*maverick (uk/english)
RJRPRES: excellent british monthly subtitled: the new voice of country music. covers both traditional & alt.country, and touches on americana, folk, blues, rock etc. highly recommended. (nov.09)

maximum rocknroll (usa/english)
RJRPRES: long-running monthly bible of punk & hardcore. combines music articles/interviews with political stuff. lots of scene reports, columns & short record reviews. important information source, and strongly recommended. (nov.09)

mean magazine (usa/english)
RJRPRES: glossy u.s. cultural bimonthly covering a wide variety of popular musics from rock & metal to rap & dance (plus cinema, literature etc.). always full of interesting articles. discontinued.

mediators (france/french)
RJRPRES: promising french alternative rock monthly which was discontinued after 4 issues.

melody maker (uk/english)
RJRPRES: long-running british music weekly. covers the contemporary popular music scene in general with a leaning towards new indie-rock. large live reviews section. an important source of information. now discontinued.

merlin-s music box (greece/greek)
RJRPRES: excellent greek alternative rock fanzine. articles/interviews on both greek & international acts + a substantial reviews section. well worth seeking out if you understand the language. discontinued.

*metal hammer (uk/english)
RJRPRES: well-known metal monthly with lots of national editions around europe. glossy with lots of full colour pictures covering a wide variety of metal music and hard rock through the usual articles + reviews. not bad at all. (nov.09)

metal hammer thrash (uk/english)
RJRPRES: quarterly special ed.of metal hammer covering thrash-metal & related. discontinued.

metal kollektor (uk/english)
RJRPRES: free collectors- supplement to kerrang featuring short articles, family trees, discographies, etc. discontinued.

metal shock (italy/italian)
RJRPRES: italian heavy metal monthly. quite good. current status unknown. current status unknown. possibly discontinued.

metal shuffle (norway/norwegian)
RJRPRES: norwegian metal mag. worth checking out if you understand the language. discontinued.

metal star (germany/german)
RJRPRES: german hardrock monthly covering mostly heavy metal. current status unknown, probably discontinued.

metalized (denmark/danish)
RJRPRES: danish metal bimonthly (formerly quarterly). covers various shades of the contemporary metal scene. recommended. (nov.09)

miks (norway/norwegian)
RJRPRES: new norwegian music magazine covering a wide variety of popular musics from rock to rap (+ some jazz). mainly record reviews + some short interviews/articles. folded after 2 issues.

minotaurus (usa/english)
RJRPRES: interesting new american fanzine covering mostly rock on the experimental dark side. recommended. probably discontinued.

mississippi rag (usa/english)
RJRPRES: monthly american trad-jazz paper with excellent articles/interviews and general quality coverage of this part of the jazz scene + ragtime. thorough live/record reviews. web-only from 2007. pagination from private print-outs 2008. discontinued.

mississippi saxophone (usa/english)
RJRPRES: one of a kind blues harmonica magazine, sadly discontinued.

*misty lane (italy/english)
RJRPRES: irregular italian zine mainly garage rock from the 1960s onward (+ some b-movies). interesting choice of (mostly obscure) artists covered make this one a must for the inquisitive fans. highly recommended. (nov.09)

mixmag (uk/english)
RJRPRES: british monthly covering all shades of dance music (techno, house, ambient, jungle, rap, triphop, etc), djs & club culture. (nov.09)

*modern drummer (usa/english)
RJRPRES: glossy american monthly for both rock & jazz drummers with the usual amount of interesting interviews, instructional columns, equipment presentations and reviews. most interviews of interest to the general public. recommended. (nov.09)

modern rock magazine /rock mag (usa/english)
RJRPRES: small fanzine covering various forms of rock, psychedelia, noise & avant-garde through small philosophical essays, letters, interviews & some quite interesting record reviews. always worth your attention. issues #1-6 titled: rock mag. dicontinued.

*mojo (uk/english)
RJRPRES: british monthly with the focus on rock/popular music from the 60s & early 70s with extensive articles & record reviews. also covers some new artists. lots of reviews. one of the best within its field and recommended. (nov.09)

mole (usa/english)
RJRPRES: american fanzine billed as The magazine by for and about the nihil generation. covers underground rock (+ comix, fiction etc). recommended. probably discontinued.

mommy and i are one (usa/english)
RJRPRES: u.s.zine covering mostly alternative/indie type rock along with stories, comics etc. recommended. discontinued.

mondo 2000 (usa/english)
RJRPRES: glossy american cyber magazine also covering related musics. worth checking out. probably discontinued.

monster (norway) (norway/norwegian)
RJRPRES: norwegian edition of glossy scandinavian bimonthly covering a variety of rock types from prog to black metal etc. steadily growing and worth checking out. previously some articles written in swedish. continues as: norway rock magazine.

morai gero (usa/english)
RJRPRES: new zine covering mostly japanese noise, rock & experimental music. some articles also in japanese. absolutely worth your attention. probably discontinued.

*morning (france/english)
RJRPRES: beautiful limited edition zine published by the illustrator iker spozio. covers popular music from the 60s & 70s through extensive interviews. absolutely recommended. (nov.09)

moshable (denmark/english)
RJRPRES: this danish alternative rock fanzine is written in english. good coverage of scandinavian acts along with more well-known british & american names. lots of short record reviews. worth checking out. discontinued.

motorbooty (usa/english)
RJRPRES: always interesting american fanzine with excellent articles on acts from mc5 to firesign theatre and blowfly. comix & non-musical articles. recommended reading. irregular. discontinued.

moxie (usa/english)
RJRPRES: small new mag from new york covering a wide variety of musics from blues & garage rock to singer/songwriters & dance music (+ comics etc). promising start & well worth inclusion in the rojaro. probably discontinued.

mucchio selvaggio (il) (italy/italian)
RJRPRES: impressive long-running italian rock (& cinema/literature) weekly. mostly mainstream but not exclusively. now back to monthly. absolutely worth your attention, but expensive for foreigners. rotten subscription service. (nov.09)

muckraker (usa/english)
RJRPRES: small xeroxed zine with excellent coverage of various artists from free improvisation to noise rock etc. very long and interesting interviews make this a must. highly recommended. discontinued.

music (usa/english)
RJRPRES: new zine from new york with articles covering rock, jazz, contemporary music, experimental etc (& art). off to a promising start. probably discontinued.

music & computers (usa/english)
RJRPRES: glossy u.s. bimonthly covering mostly technical issues connected with making music with computers. quite interesting. current status unknown, probably discontinued.

music (italy) (italy/italian)
RJRPRES: italian mainstream monthly covering various forms of popular musics/cinema etc. general high quality & worth checking out. current status unknown. probably discontinued.

music city news (usa/english)
RJRPRES: american country music monthly consisting of short articles, a few record reviews & an extensive news section. discontinued.

music from the empty quarter (uk/english)
RJRPRES: excellent british industrial music fanzine which also covers various kinds of experimental music. record review section especially valuable as an information source. recommended. discontinued.

music matters review (usa/english)
RJRPRES: interesting american zine covering folk, roots, blues, singer/songwriters and related musics. space is given to both known & fairly unknown talent through both interviews and some extensive record reviews. discontinued. continues on the web.

music paper (the) (usa/english)
RJRPRES: versatile american monthly covering various forms of contemporary popular music. articles on artists, technique, intrumental instruction and business etc + some reviews. discontinued.

musica jazz (italy/italian)
RJRPRES: important italian monthly jazz magazine that comes with a cd. well-researched articles, interviews & reviews on both italian and intern.jazz + a large mid section related to the music on the cd. highly recommended. current status uncertain.

musicclub (italy/italian)
RJRPRES: incredibly varied free italian monthly with articles/reviews on everything from avant garde to deathnoise (plus cinema comix etc). worth tracking down. probably discontinued.

musiche (italy/italian)
RJRPRES: a very thorough magazine covering news, live- & record reviews and interviews within the avant garde field (mostly). now published irregularly. excellent and a personal favourite. discontinued.

musician (usa/english)
RJRPRES: american glossy music monthly covering mostly rock, but also touching on jazz, country, rap etc. important for long well-researched interviews + staged meetings between musicians. recommended. now discontinued.

musik (sweden/swedish)
RJRPRES: swedish music magazine covering classical music, folk music, world music & jazz. published in co-operation with sveriges radio p2 & sveriges rikskonserter. important coverage of the contemporary swedish music scene. (may 99)

musiker magasinet (sweden/swedish)
RJRPRES: swedish mag for musicians covering both the musical & technical side. mostly rock, but touches on other types of music. recommended for features on musicians/groups. (nov.09)

musikermagasinet (norway) (norway/norwegian)
RJRPRES: norwegian version of the swedish magazine with the same name. articles on norwegian and international artists in addition to equipment tests, workshops etc. folded after eight issues.

*musikexpress (germany/german)
RJRPRES: long-running glossy german monthly covering various popular musics like rock, soul etc. lots of info on both the national & international scene through articles & reviews. formerly called musikexpress sounds. comes with a free cd. (nov.09)

musikk fokus (norway/norwegian)
RJRPRES: norwegian bimonthly focusing on music in norway. some coverage of jazz and popular musics. only specially selected articles/reviews indexed. current status unknown.

musikk praksis (norway/norwegian)
RJRPRES: norwegian bimonthly. mostly technical/equipment articles & tests, but some valuable interviews. (nov.09)

mute (norway/norwegian)
RJRPRES: important new norwegian quarterly covering rock and other types of popular music through extensive articles & record reviews related to both the national & international scene. highly recommended. discontinued.

muz (italy/italian)
RJRPRES: italian rock & related bi-monthly. some interesting articles on both italian & international artists make this worth seeking out. discontinued.

muzik (uk/english)
RJRPRES: glossy monthly covering most shades of dance music, like techno, jungle, house, rap etc. lots & lots of record reviews (plus the articles/interviews) make this a very valuable source of information. recommended. discontinued.

mzee (germany/german)
RJRPRES: german rap magazine. good european coverage. scene reports, reviews etc. discontinued.