Les Inrockuptibles
Les Inrockuptibles is a weekly French cultural magazine focusing on rock music . The magazine is also called Les Inrocks for short . It is published by Les Éditions Indépendantes in Paris and had a circulation of 58,822 in 2011. In addition to culture, the magazine also deals with political and social issues and can politically be assigned to the left spectrum.
The name is a neologism on the word Les Incorruptibles (Eng. The incorruptible ), which contains the word rock .
history
At the beginning of the 1980s Christian Fevret produced rock music programs on the Free Radio CVS Versailles, one of the programs was already called "Les Inrockuptibles". Since, in his opinion, the music magazines at that time did not give the newer groups enough space and CVS stopped the radio broadcast, the plan arose with Arnaud Deverre to publish a fanzine under the same name. The first issue in 1986 had Chris Isaak on the cover. The magazine initially appeared quarterly and specialized in rock music. It consisted entirely of interviews and black and white pictures, the style was very sober for a music magazine. A year later they make the very last interview with The Smiths in which singer Morrissey has announced the dissolution of the group. Increasingly, Les Inrockuptibles opened up to other cultural subjects, especially cinema and literature. The front page with the film director Leos Carax in 1991 represented a turning point . Since 1995 the magazine has appeared weekly and at the same time expanded its spectrum to include social and political topics. With Michel Rocard , a politician was on the cover for the first time this year.
further activities
- Under the title Les Inrocks 2 , several special editions of the magazine appeared, which are exclusively dedicated to one artist, for example for The Clash , Radiohead and Bob Marley . In addition, tribute albums have been released for some artists , for example I'm Your Fan for Leonard Cohen in 1991, The Smiths Is Dead in 1996 and Monsieur Gainsbourg revisited in 2006.
- Since 1990 the magazine has organized the music festival Le Festival des Inrockuptibles , which takes place in Paris and other major French cities. Both newer and better-known groups perform at the festival.
- An Argentine version of the magazine has been published in Spanish since 1996 under the name Los Inrockuptibles .
- Since 2002 there has been a competition for as yet unknown musicians, initially under the name "CQFD" ( Ceux qu'il faut découvrir ), since 2011 under the name "inRocKs lab".
- The magazine's music journalists were regular guests on Bernard Lenoir's music program on Radio France Inter , which for a while was also called L'Inrockuptible .
Others
- On November 13, 2015, the journalist and head of the Metal department, Guillaume B. Decherf, was killed in the attacks in Paris while attending a concert by the Eagles of Death Metal .
literature
- Les Inrockuptibles, 25 ans d'insoumission , Flammarion, 2011, ISBN 978-2-08-126631-5
Web links
- Official website (French)
- Argentine version (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Association pour le contrôle et la diffusion des médias ( Memento of the original of September 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Christian Christian Fevret raconte ses Inrocks on voxpopmag.com
- ↑ L'année où j'ai participé à la naissance des Inrocks on lesinrocks.com
- ↑ Les Inrockuptibles, 25 ans d'insoumission, Flammarion, 2011, p. 9.
- ^ Les jeunes, latin lovers de "Los Inrockuptibles". La version argentine des "Inrocks" vient de fêter sa première année d'existence , Mary Claude, Liberation, August 18, 1997
- ^ Toujours solid comme Inrocks , Christian Losson, Liberation, November 4, 2012
- ↑ Les Inrockuptibles, 25 ans d'insoumission, Flammarion, 2011, p. 10.
- ↑ LesInrocks.com: Les Inrocks - Guillaume B. Decherf a été tué here au Bataclan from November 14, 2015
