The RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM) will officially launch in New York on May 27, 2025 at CUNY Graduate Center with a public launch event hosted by The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation and RILM, cosponsored by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning. Not only will this event unveil RAPMM, but it will also celebrate the release of two groundbreaking publications: Inside the Studio Spaces of Electronic Music Production: Berlin/Cairo by Matthias Pasdzierny and Gero Cacciatore, and Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologiesby Eliot Bates and Samantha Bennett. Admission is free, with an RSVP and a livestream will be available, as well. You can find the event details here.

This digital music magazine archive includes high quality scans of every issue of Anji’s fanzines from the late 80s to mid-90s including the hard Positive Influence, Substitution, Desperation, and Descent. Only Positive Influence has been reissued in an archival book format, making this digital collection the first time that many of these zines has been available to the public since the time of publication. Anji’s zines are just a portion of their extensive digital collection comprising over 125 independently published popular music magazines and fanzines in circulation from the late 1960s to the present day, with new titles to be added to the collection yearly.

I’m proud and honored to have my work included in this collection and look forward to seeing how music scholars, journalists, and writers utilize this vast catalog for future projects.