Trouser Press, One of the All-Time Great Music Magazines, Finally Gets an Anthology: Book Review
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Despite and also because of its puzzling inside-joke name, Trouser Press was one of the greatest music magazines in history.
It existed for just a decade — from 1974 through 1984 — but in the process, it nurtured the careers of thousands of musicians and exponentially more fans, future musicians, writers, music executives and others.
But unlike nearly every major music publication, it had no anthology or collection of its greatest work until the release last Friday of “Zip It Up!
The Best of Trouser Press Magazine 1974-1984,” a sprawling 440-page 50th anniversary collection of its greatest articles that is practically a real-time history of some of the best rock music of that era — from the Who, the Rolling Stones and David Bowie to the Sex Pistols and the Clash to U2 and the Cure, and dozens more.
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