Please Allow This Asian American music writer to articulate this at the level it deserves: Egregious racism and misogyny have a long history in rock & roll — from those on the industry side who have appropriated Black artists’ work to those at the top of the publications who dictated what has been featured. The gatekeepers have always been a boys’ club — specifically a white boys’ club.
Among the earliest influential U.S. music magazines, Rolling Stone was helmed by Jann Wenner from 1967 to 2018; Barry Kramer launched Creem in 1969 and published it...
Among the earliest influential U.S. music magazines, Rolling Stone was helmed by Jann Wenner from 1967 to 2018; Barry Kramer launched Creem in 1969 and published it...
- 10/23/2023
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
More than 30 years after its final issue, the legendary Creem magazine has returned — with a vast online archive and brand new content.
On Wednesday, the wild, brazen Detroit publication launched a free digital archive, featuring every issue from its 20-year run (1969-1989) that features bylines by Lester Bangs, Patti Smith, Cameron Crowe, Dave Marsh, and more. They’ll also become a presence in music journalism again, unveiling a new website and a quarterly print subscription.
“Creem was the one place where I felt like I was part of something bigger than myself,...
On Wednesday, the wild, brazen Detroit publication launched a free digital archive, featuring every issue from its 20-year run (1969-1989) that features bylines by Lester Bangs, Patti Smith, Cameron Crowe, Dave Marsh, and more. They’ll also become a presence in music journalism again, unveiling a new website and a quarterly print subscription.
“Creem was the one place where I felt like I was part of something bigger than myself,...
- 6/1/2022
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Maybe we should start with that subtitle: “America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine.” [Clears throat at the volume of a jet engine] Scott Crawford’s documentary on the estimable, invaluable 1970’s music rag does stoop to mention another U.S. publication that was covering rock stars and the counterculture scene, one which kicked off the year before Detroit record-store owner Barry Kramer decided to begun publishing his own take. Creem‘s existence, in fact, was partially a reactive fuck you to the very entity you’re reading right now, as one of the film’s talking heads admits — even the name,...
- 8/8/2020
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Creem Magazine music critic and editor Lester Bangs once remarked, “Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.” This driving principle, while it should be behind all forms of criticism, especially drove the work Bangs and others did at Creem Magazine during the famous rock magazine’s twenty-year stint. Started as an alternative to the more famous Rolling Stone, Creem allowed critics to take an edgier approach to criticism that matching the energy of the rock music which they wrote about.
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Now, more than thirty years since the magazine’s last issues (not considering the short run Creem had in the ’90s), a recent trailer for the documentary from Greenwich Entertainment titled “Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine” has been released.
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Read More: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s 12 Best Performances
Now, more than thirty years since the magazine’s last issues (not considering the short run Creem had in the ’90s), a recent trailer for the documentary from Greenwich Entertainment titled “Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine” has been released.
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- 6/27/2020
- by Reid Ramsey
- The Playlist
“Buying Creem was a little bit like buying Playboy,” Jeff Daniels says in the trailer for the upcoming documentary, Creem: America’s Only Rock N’ Roll Magazine. “You didn’t want your parents to see either one of them.” The alternative music magazine debuted in Detroit in 1969 and is credited with inventing the phrase Punk Rock. “It was Rock magazine with a capital R,” Suzi Quatro adds. Creem: America’s Only Rock N’ Roll Magazine will open in select theaters in August. Boy howdy!
Creem was staffed by a group of misfits who had no “business running, writing or editing for a rock magazine,” according to the trailer, but it was gobbled up by music fans and musicians alike who were hungry for new sounds, harsher attacks and irreverent takes on mainstream artists and venerated rock gods. The now-legendary publication broke heavy metal and New Wave artists on a national...
Creem was staffed by a group of misfits who had no “business running, writing or editing for a rock magazine,” according to the trailer, but it was gobbled up by music fans and musicians alike who were hungry for new sounds, harsher attacks and irreverent takes on mainstream artists and venerated rock gods. The now-legendary publication broke heavy metal and New Wave artists on a national...
- 6/26/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The documentary feature "Creem: America's Only Rock 'N Roll Magazine", is directed by Scott Crawford, with Jeff Ament, Alice Cooper and Cameron Crowe:
"...capturing the messy upheaval of the '70s just as rock was re-inventing itself...
"...the film explores 'Creem' magazine's humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit...
"...follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse...
"...then bears witness to its imminent demise following the tragic and untimely deaths of its visionary publisher, Barry Kramer, and its most famous alum and genius clown prince, Lester Bangs, a year later.
"Fifty years after publishing its first issue, "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine" remains a seditious spirit in music and culture..."
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"...capturing the messy upheaval of the '70s just as rock was re-inventing itself...
"...the film explores 'Creem' magazine's humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit...
"...follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse...
"...then bears witness to its imminent demise following the tragic and untimely deaths of its visionary publisher, Barry Kramer, and its most famous alum and genius clown prince, Lester Bangs, a year later.
"Fifty years after publishing its first issue, "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine" remains a seditious spirit in music and culture..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Creem: America's Only Rock 'N Roll Magazine" ...
- 6/24/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"It was a rock magazine with a capitol 'R.'" Greenwich Entertainment has unveiled the official trailer for a look-back documentary film titled Creem: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival last year. The title is self-explanatory - this rock doc is about the music magazine known as Creem, exploring its "humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse - spotlighting iconic features, interviews, and anecdotes along the way - then bears witness to its imminent demise following the tragic and untimely deaths of its visionary publisher, Barry Kramer, and its most famous alum and genius clown prince, Lester Bangs, a year later." The mag has been around for almost 50 years, and the film celebrates how "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine" remains a seditious spirit in music and culture. This doc looks like a wild and crazy story of rock.
- 6/17/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Creem, “America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine”, was a monthly rock ‘n’ roll publication first published in March 1969 by Barry Kramer and founding editor Tony Reay. This summer, the documentary Creem: America’S Only Rock N’ Roll Magazine will capture the magazine’s story. Check out the trailer:
Capturing the messy upheaval of the ’70s just as rock was re-inventing itself, the film explores Creem Magazine’s humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse – spotlighting iconic features, interviews, and anecdotes along the way – then bears witness to its imminent demise following the tragic and untimely deaths of its visionary publisher, Barry Kramer, and its most famous alum and genius clown prince, Lester Bangs, a year later.
Fifty years after publishing its first issue, “America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine” remains a seditious spirit in music and culture.
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Capturing the messy upheaval of the ’70s just as rock was re-inventing itself, the film explores Creem Magazine’s humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse – spotlighting iconic features, interviews, and anecdotes along the way – then bears witness to its imminent demise following the tragic and untimely deaths of its visionary publisher, Barry Kramer, and its most famous alum and genius clown prince, Lester Bangs, a year later.
Fifty years after publishing its first issue, “America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine” remains a seditious spirit in music and culture.
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- 6/17/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Legendary rock critic Lester Bangs and his protégé Cameron Crowe appear in the new trailer for Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine, in theaters this summer.
Directed by Scott Crawford, the trailer features vintage videos and various Creem covers throughout the Seventies and Eighties. Several musicians appear in the trailer, including Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Suzi Quatro, Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and more. “Most people want to fit in somewhere,” Stipe says. “I wasn’t going to find it in my high school.
Directed by Scott Crawford, the trailer features vintage videos and various Creem covers throughout the Seventies and Eighties. Several musicians appear in the trailer, including Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Suzi Quatro, Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and more. “Most people want to fit in somewhere,” Stipe says. “I wasn’t going to find it in my high school.
- 6/17/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
If Rolling Stone aspired (after somewhat “underground” beginnings) to be the Rolls Royce of rock magazines, Creem was by contrast the Volkwagen band-van: pungent with reefer, speed sweat, and last night’s groupie action. The hubris that had it self-dubbed “America’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll Magazine” was strictly of a working-class, sex-drugs-and-you-know-what variety that ridiculed all upscaling pretensions, musical or otherwise. Scott Crawford’s “Boy Howdy! The Story of Creem Magazine” is a brief, careening survey through the publication’s two-decade life and times, filled with colorful personalities and commentary. Vintage rock fans will be in (cough) high heaven.
The director’s prior feature was 2014’s “Salad Days,” a history of the influential Washington, D.C., hardcore punk scene. While this sophomore effort numbers late Creem publisher Barry Kramer’s surviving ex-wife and son among its producers, it provides a similarly critical overview of another enterprise whose creativity largely...
The director’s prior feature was 2014’s “Salad Days,” a history of the influential Washington, D.C., hardcore punk scene. While this sophomore effort numbers late Creem publisher Barry Kramer’s surviving ex-wife and son among its producers, it provides a similarly critical overview of another enterprise whose creativity largely...
- 3/18/2019
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress — at the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
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Boy Howdy
Logline: Upcoming documentary film about Creem Magazine from New Rose Films and director Scott Crawford (of Salad Days), exploring the heyday of the game-changing, Detroit-based rock mag.
Elevator Pitch:
The film explores the heyday of Creem, starting from the beginning and following through it’s untimely end. Exclusive interviews in the film include Alice Cooper and Thurston Moore along with many others.
The director, Scott Crawford, has a great history with music documentaries with his most recent being “Salad Days” which explored the legendary punk scene in DC. Also, Creem’s founder/publisher Barry Kramer’s son, Jj Kramer,...
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Boy Howdy
Logline: Upcoming documentary film about Creem Magazine from New Rose Films and director Scott Crawford (of Salad Days), exploring the heyday of the game-changing, Detroit-based rock mag.
Elevator Pitch:
The film explores the heyday of Creem, starting from the beginning and following through it’s untimely end. Exclusive interviews in the film include Alice Cooper and Thurston Moore along with many others.
The director, Scott Crawford, has a great history with music documentaries with his most recent being “Salad Days” which explored the legendary punk scene in DC. Also, Creem’s founder/publisher Barry Kramer’s son, Jj Kramer,...
- 7/26/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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