Magazine

Tortoise

Over the past decade and a half, savvy readers have found ALARM buried under the mountains of mainstream enablers, hype mags, and gear journals. Our unwavering dedication to uncovering the best and most progressive bands of the contemporary rock landscape — from space rock to psychobilly and from grunge to grindcore — places an emphasis on the artists who actually move music forward.

Trans Am

In 2012, we’re re-launching our namesake title, ALARM Magazine, with an eye toward rock-and-roll culture and exclusive content. We’ll still have in-depth features and album profiles, covering all the bases of rock and beyond, but now readers will find crazy instrument collections, bands interviewing each other, studio visits, Q&As with record labels, music-based travel guides, and conversations about musicians’ lives.

William Elliott Whitmore

ALARM Press will continue to publish music books intermittently — including our recent title Chromatic: The Crossroads of Color and Music and the forthcoming Assault of the Earth: Metal Bands from Around the Globe — but in the meantime, we’re excited to bring back ALARM Magazine on a bimonthly basis. Look for the new ALARM on newsstands this summer.

Mike Patton

Praise for Chromatic:

“A riot of ideas sure to engage anyone interested in visual communication.” – Buzz Poole, The Millions

Praise for ALARM:

“For over 15 years, ALARM Press has been the go-to source for everything in music.” – Indie Rock Reviews

“ALARM succeeds over the online portals — and the coffee-table mags fronting for event planners — because they eschew elitism for inclusion. Everything from the writing to the art to the physical design is inviting. The participants genuinely want to share their discoveries with enthusiasm, as opposed to keeping them buried under a veneer of smug hipster fronting.” – Jason Pettigrew, Alternative Press

“[ALARM’s] type of diligent attention to what percolates beneath the usual ‘new releases’ as worthwhile, challenging, and stubbornly independent art bodes well for the future of criticism.” – John L. Murphy, PopMatters

“Drop the mouse and step away from the computer. ALARM will make you fall in love with print music journalism all over again.” – Matthew Fernandes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch