What is RAPMM?

Welcome to the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM), the digital collection of independently published popular music magazines and fanzines. RAPMM brings over 125 titles in one place, with front-to-back issues scanned from their sources and made available in digital form. The zines in RAPMM cover a wide array of popular music genres, highlighting the expansive punk world and its many subgenres, as well as other rock genres, indie, hip hop, and country. The collection explores the history of musical movements and their relation to politics, society, culture, underground scenes, stylistic shifts, and feminism. RAPMM titles include interviews with recognized and unknown artists, band profiles, album and live show reviews, and histories of record labels. Please be aware that RAPMM includes some explicit content that may be offensive or harmful to some users. This content is unredacted to ensure the completeness of the collection and remains unaltered to retain historical accuracy. It documents the issues and social context of specific times as well as the attitudes and opinions of the people who created the material.