Pop Culture

Resources in this category:

Alt-X
http://www.altx.com/

A Generation X-style webzine devoted to the critique popular culture in America.

American Folk
http://www.americanfolk.com/

Created by the graduate students at the UCLA Folklore and Mythology Program, American Folk is an e-journal designed for the scholar and general reader . This site has articles on individual folk artists, craftspeople, folk performers, and other folk and popular culture genres written by academically trained students and professionals in folklore and popular culture. It also features a bookstore which offers selections of writings made available through alt.bookstore.com and regularly highlites a site--The Raving Toy Maniac in this issue--as well asproviding links to online folklore and popular culture journals, academic folklore and popular culture programs, and various popular culture pages such as the Drive-In Theatre Page and The Potato Museum.

Ape Culture
http://www.apeculture.com/

"Ape Culture is the quarterly webzine that features the humorous exploration, meditation, and explication of all things pop culture, including movies, TV, music, media, and the stripmall way of life."

The Basement Magazine
http://www.basementmag.it/

Biomedical Ethics
http://www.izew.uni-tuebingen.de/bme/

"Newsletter of the European Network for Biomedical Ethics."

Blender
http://www.blender.com/

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
http://boingboing.net/

"It's a print zine started in 1988 by Mark Frauenfelder (mark@well.com) and Carla Sinclair (carla@well.com). Gareth Branwyn (gareth@well.com) joined as senior editor a year or so later. The first couple of issues were mainly about cyberpunk, virtual reality, smart drugs, chaos theory and that kind of stuff, but we quickly started covering anything that interested us -- pranks, zines, weirdoes, cool people, comics, DIY, subcultures all over the planet, sex, movies, true-life experiences, and design."

Bomb
http://www.bombsite.com/

BPM Culture Online
http://www.bpmculture.com/

"The best information about the underground rave culture, its music, fashion and events. We are a magazine written and owned by ravers-you get the real news here... not the negative stuff you see on the TV. Come and see what the BPM Culture is all about for your self."

BRNR Labs
http://www.brnr.com/

"Radical Disinformation. BRNR is a collection of graphic explorations, HTML experiments, design/pop-culture commentary, games, nonsense, etc."

Buzzcutt
http://www.buzzcutt.com/

"The journal of modern mythology."

Cafe Compendium
http://fortuna.home.pipeline.com/cafe-compendium/intro.htm

"Cafe Compendium is the e-zine repository of excerpts from the print zine Ladies' Fetish & Taboo Society Compendium of Urban Anthropology, a footnote and detail-heavy running commentary on the weirdness and complications of modern life."

Cardhouse
http://cardhouse.com/

"A Detroit-based pop-culture/humor publication."

Check This Out!
http://www.ctomag.com/

An online popular culture e-zine written by women with a particular focus on female musicians. Includes interviews, reviews, and columns on aspects of music and daily life.

Cisum Review
http://members.tripod.com/~cisumreview/

"Monthly independent publication dedicated to music and pop culture. Regular features include celebrity interviews, music reviews, and pop culture columnists. Published with pride from deep in the heart of Austin, TX, the self-proclaimed Live Music Capital of the World."

Entertainment Lane
http://welcome.to/EntertainmentLane/

The contents of this e-zine include fashion, music, and movie reviews. Lane, has provided a site with exciting images and different rating systems which he applies to celebrity clothers, alternative music, and upcoming films.

Ept magazine
http://www.inept.com/

"Ept is a gormful publication for the immaculate readership. We present the best and shiniest cut-throat modern thinking on aspects of culture, lifestyle, sport and travel. Ept is based in Dublin, Ireland."

15 Minutes
http://www.15minutes.com/

"A virtual oasis in a cyberdesert."

Furious Green Thoughts & Assorted Realities
http://www.furious.com/

"Dedicated to scrambling your gray matter by any means necessary. Cruise through our mind-field for music, arts, politics, fiction, rants. Not for the timid."

G 21
http://www.g21.net/

"G21 - World Magazine of News, Satire, Humor & Commentary. Some of what we offer you is funny, but much is not. We hope that you respect our commitment to bring you the Real News behind the headlines and the punditry of the Usual Suspects who are the Mouthpiece Media talking heads .....We mean to generate energy into the 21st Century."

Giant Robot
http://www.giantrobot.com/

"From movie stars, musicians, and skateboarders to toys,technology, and history, Giant Robot magazine covers cool aspects of Asian and Asian-American pop culture."

Jive
http://www.jivemagazine.com/

"Webzine about 20 something pop culture."

Melty
http://www.melty.com/

"A personal zine of pop and politics."

Menagerie Cyberzine
http://www.mcz.com/

""Looking At The World Looking At The World" : Music, Film, Creative & Surreal Writing, Sports, Eating, Drinking - everything and anything that makes life worth living."

Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang!
http://www.ianfleming.org/mkkbb/

"The Web Magazine of The Ian Fleming Foundation." Devoted to James Bond 007.

Munich Found
http://www.MunichFound.de/

"Bavaria's leading english-language, monthly Magazine dedicated to providing its international audience with a discerning mix of culture, history, commentary, art, and politics."

Olive
http://www.cafe-olive.com/

"A unique new interactive magazine for Cybercafes. [Topics include] bank balance, workplace, travelrama, technosphere, earthworks, body & soul, dusk till dawn, mix 'n' match, and club cybercafe."

ORANG
http://orang.orang.org/

"the open radio archive network group / ORANG provides 34 day(s), 12 hours, 59 minutes and 29 seconds, this are 2984369 seconds or 49739 minutes or 828 hours of contributed audio material. this system served 908 days of content to the net audiance. feel free to explore it and colaborate."

Paper Magazine
http://www.papermag.com/?section=magazine/

Parallel Gallery // Journal
http://www.va.com.au/parallel/x2/

"An on-line art gallery and journal of post-modernism and popular culture ."

Paris Match
http://www.parismatch.com/

PopMatters
http://popmatters.com/

PopMatters is an international magazine of cultural criticism. Our scope is broad and covers most cultural products, including music, television, films, books, video games, computer software, theatre, the visual arts, and the Internet. Of course, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Our goal is to reach the broadest possible audience with intelligent and thought-provoking writing that is often not readily available within the mainstream mass media.

PopPolitics
http://www.poppolitics.com/

PopPolitics is an online magazine that blends popular and political cultures and covers the connections between them. It offers political news coverage coupled with historical analysis, cultural commentary and personal essays that relate the news to everyday life." Every six weeks, their Culture Clash section addresses a new issue from a variety of perspectives. "The idea is to investigate both the popular culture and the political angles, and to discuss the effect that each has on the issue."

Postmodern Culture
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/

Retro--The Magazine of Classic 20th Century Popular Culture
http://www.retroactive.com/

Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/

Shoot the Messenger
http://www.shootthemessenger.com.au/

"Christian view of popular culture."

Spank!
http://www.spankmag.com/

Spoiler
http://www.spoiler.com/

"The site you are about to enter is a collective work of design, fiction, interviews, music, internet and a valiant attempt at increasing the communication between members of the independent/DIY community."

Stay Free!
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/

"Stay Free! is a print magazine focused on issues surrounding commercialism and American culture."

Suck
http://www.suck.com/

teletronic: the online magazine of classic television
http://www.teletronic.co.uk/

"Teletronic is a free e-mail magazine featuring articles, reviews, overviews and features on four decades of classic television from both the UK/US. Published and edited by Laurence Marcus & Stephen R. Hulse, this e-magazine has been complied from material not previously available on the main Television Heaven Web site, which includes reviews of hundreds of television classics past and present. Read the history of television and its stars, learn about television collectibles, keep up with the latest TV news from both sides of the Atlantic and vote for your top ten shows of all time."

The Trail
http://www.thetrailnewspaper.com/home/archives/

This student-run weekly publication discusses campus-life at the University of Puget Sound. Covering news and sports, the newspaper also includes opinion pieces on key issues affecting students and the University.

Trends in Japan
http://web-jpn.org/trends/index.html

Includes current news in Japan.

Urban Desires
http://desires.com/

"An interactive magazine of metropolitan passions with a focus on the Arts and urban culture.Sections include: The Written Word, Art, Food, Music, Style, Sex, Performance, Tech/Toysand Travel."

Variety
http://www.variety.com/

Online version of the popular entertainment industry paper. Includes information on the music, film and television industries. Selected articles are avaiable for free; full-text is available online via subscription.

Velocity NYC
http://www.velocitynyc.com/

"This comprehensive New York City e-zine is a one of a kind. It's an Internet portal for pop culture and unpop culture with stories, articles, and reviews by and about New York people. Also, it's an indie music resource for bands and labels, and now the online home of Street News, the New York City homeless newspaper."

Vent!Zine
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4725/

"When you get caught with your pants down, we'll be there with the popcorn."

ViVidzine
http://www.vividzine.com/

"An electronic zine dedicated to popular culture: art and music interviews and reviews, poetry and short fiction."

Word
http://www.word.com/index.html

Xcentrix
http://www.xcentrix.com/

"Xcentrix is a dynamic compendium of diverse genres , including: fashion, hedonistic soirees, film, and literature. Threaded together by a common theme, we bring you a crossroads or epicenter where flamboyant "realities" merge."