CREEM Returns

Free Digital Archive Of Every Issue From 1969-1989 + New Fresh CREEM Editorial Website Launching Today

Quarterly Print Magazine Coming This Fall

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“Most people want to fit in somewhere. I wasn’t going to find it in my high school. 

I found it in CREEM Magazine.” - Michael Stipe 

"Having a certain sense of humor in the rock'n'roll culture – CREEM nailed 

it in a way that nobody else has. It informed a lot of people's sensibilities." - Thurston Moore

"I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, 

and learn the history of rock through back issues of CREEM." - Kurt Cobain

The iconic, unfiltered and wickedly funny CREEM is back. Having ushered in a new era of raucous, participatory journalism when the magazine originally launched in 1969, their legendary voice is leading the movement once again. Today, CREEM is launching a free digital archive with every single issue from its original 1969-1989 run available online for the first time ever, as well as a new editorial website and newsletter here. And coming this Fall, CREEM will return to print as an oversized subscription-only premium quarterly. Limited-time introductory rates available here. The company recently announced a number of new hires as well.

Founded in 1969 Detroit, CREEM grew from underground paper to national powerhouse – an essential source of music journalism for 20 years, and a touchstone for multiple generations. It reflected and shaped the culture, cultivated some of the most legendary writing talent of the era.

The CREEM Archive is a time capsule of articles and ads as they originally appeared in print, with definitive writing by Lester Bangs, Cameron Crowe, Patti Smith, Greil Marcus, Lisa Robinson, Susan Whitall, Dave Marsh, Robert Christgau, Jaan Uhelszki and so many others, available online for the first time.

With 224 issues & 69,000 photos, articles and reviews, this archive release may be the most significant cache of rock 'n' roll history ever shared online at one time. Readers can access it via creem.com now with a 30-day free trial offer through August—afterwards it will be free with a print subscription. 

The new CREEM will cover multiple generations of innovative artists, championing the margins with contributors ranging from established writers and photographers to up-and-coming new voices. CREEM will embrace the best of rock ‘n’ roll - the biggest bands of all time and records no one has ever heard of, trusting their readers like no other. 

Launching today on creem.com is Fresh CREEM, a free weekly content package and newsletter for CREEM’s new music recommendations, columnists, and exclusive features on all eras of rock ‘n’ roll. This week at Fresh CREEM, meet Unity Maclean, the woman behind Led Zeppelin's record label Swan Song. CREEM Profiles returns as a platform for spotlighting up-and-coming artists — first up is hardcore band Scowl, just off their surprising stint opening for Limp Bizkit. Remember Wheatus? CREEM found them at a chili festival in Atlantic City, as part of a new series on still-thriving bands who've fallen off the radar. Fresh CREEM will also have the first U.S. interview with Molchat Doma about leaving Belarus during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a new column called “Fartworks'' in which CREEM's Dave Carnie critiques art by famous musicians like Paul Stanley.

The critically-acclaimed 2020 documentary CREEM: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine earned praise everywhere from New York Times to CBS This Morning. Today, CREEM Entertainment is led by former VICE publisher John Martin as CEO, alongside Chairman JJ Kramer (son of original CREEM co-founder & publisher Barry Kramer), and original editor Jaan Uhelszki, one of the first women to work in rock journalism.

The new CREEM editorial staff includes VP of Content Fred Pessaro formerly of VICE’s Noisey, Executive Editor Dan Morrissey from Entertainment Weekly, andSenior Editor Maria Sherman, following her work at NPR, Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed, Jezebel, Netflix, ELLE and her critically acclaimed book, LARGER THAN LIFE: A History of Boy Bands. Contributing Editor Dave Carnie hasworked with Jackass, ESPN, Big Brother, and Penthouse. Photo Editor MattSalacuse has photographed everyone from Jay Z to Dimebag Darrell for Esquire, XXL and beyond. Grace Scott joins as Associate Editor after her work with VICE & The Toronto Star, and Zachary Lipez as Editor at Large, following his work with Pitchfork, The Washington Post & more. 

BMG Cypress Ascendant Holdings have come on as investors in CREEM Entertainment.