Trouser Press
Trouser Press was an American music journal founded in New York in 1974 by Ira Robbins, Dave Schulps and Karen Rose. The first edition of the magazine, which initially had the character of a fanzine , appeared in March 1974. Until the 13th edition in May 1976, its full name was Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press, a reference to a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and whose word creation from the first letters of the British television program Top of the Pops .
Until April 1977, all issues had the subtitle America's Only British Rock Magazine ("America's only British rock magazine") and included articles on The Who , King Crimson , Genesis , Marc Bolan , The Yardbirds and The Rolling Stones , interviews with Brian Eno and Robert Fripp and extensive record reviews. In the following years Trouser Press mainly dealt with punk rock , new wave and alternative rock in Europe and the USA. The magazine featured in-depth articles on bands like The Sex Pistols , The Boomtown Rats , The Clash , The Damned , The Ramones , and Television . Starting in 1982, subscribers to the magazine received a Flexidisc with each copy .
The 96th edition was the last issue of the magazine in April 1984. Ira Robbins, however, carried on the music journal idea by bringing out five books from 1983 to 1997 called The New Trouser Press Record Guide , which contained extensive reviews of nearly 10,000 records by 2,500 artists.
With this collection as a foundation, the trouserpress.com website went online in 2002.
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- 1983 The Trouser Press Guide to New Wave Records . Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN 978-0-68417-944-5 .
- 1985 The New Trouser Press Record Guide . Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN 978-0-68418-378-7 .
- 1989 The New Trouser Press Record Guide . Crowell-Collier Pr, ISBN 978-0-02036-370-5 .
- 1991 The New Trouser Press Record Guide . Collier Books, ISBN 978-0-02036-361-3 .
- 1997 The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock . Fireside, ISBN 978-0-68481-437-7 .