What’s All This Digital Magazine Business?

The staff of self-titled has written and/or worked for such diverse pop culture/music publications as Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Giant, SPIN, Time Out NY, Decibel, XLR8R and Urb. That said, they don’t read too many magazines these days. Why? It’s simple—because today’s glossies are boring in the same way blogs are ridiculously sarcastic and snarky.

That’s why Pop Mart Media publisher Andrew Parks launched self-titled in early 2008: to present something other than egocentric “criticism” and profiles that read like regurgitated press releases. While they certainly run reviews and full-on artist features, s/t thrives on answering the questions others don’t ask, on being a professional-but-oh-so-irreverent bastard child of Blender, Esquire and Vice.

Find out what some of those questions are by following the s/t daily and digital magazine links at http://www.self-titledmag.com, or by contacting one of our editors:

Editor/Publisher, Andrew Parks, aparks@self-titledmag.com
Associate Editor, Aaron Richter, arichter@self-titledmag.com
Managing Editor, Arye Dworken, adworken@self-titledmag.com

As for getting covered by self-titled, feel free to send any music/books/movies/size medium clothing to our Brooklyn office at:

self-titled
685 Metropolitan Ave., #1
Brooklyn, NY 11211

The following is the editor’s letter from our current digital issue (click it to see a larger version). Expect st003 in January.