MAGAZINE GRAVEYARD
The Bomb
1991-1996 | San Francisco
Pitch:
Devoted to all four elements of hip-hop, David Paul's The Bomb started as a photocopied and stapled Bay Area ’zine featuring interviews and DJ record sets and eventually grew into a one-stop mail-order shop for underground hip-hop.
Notable For:
Hand-drawn, graf-style covers and headlines.
Death Knell:
The e-commerce and record-label biz eclipsed the magazine in the mid-’90s and made it irrelevant.
Legacy:
The Bomb went on to become a web site and a record label. It was ground zero for the Skratch Piklz turntablist movement and in many ways was the literary embodiment of that scene.
Rating:
It might’ve blown up, but it never went pop.
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