Type of site | Online magazine |
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Headquarters | Bucharest, Romania Oslo, Norway |
Founder(s) | Dragoș Rusu |
URL | www.the-attic.net |
Launched | December 19, 2014 |
The Attic Magazine is an online music magazine. The magazine has branches in Bucharest, Romania, and Oslo, Norway, and additional mobile offices in various European countries. The magazine focuses on a wide variety of music genres, and also features editorial investigation concerning different world cultures. [1] [2] The magazine has also been involved in organizing significant musical events including the Outernational Days festival [3] [4] and other events in the capital. [5] The magazine has been referenced in several Romanian magazines including Dilema veche [6] and România liberă, [7] British pop culture magazine The Quietus , [8] and the British avant-garde music magazine The Wire. [4]
Dragoș Rusu is the magazine's editor in chief. [9] [6] [10] The magazine had its launch party at clubul Control din București (Control club in Bucharest) on December 19, 2014. [11] The magazine features music from various genres and times. [1]
The magazine has organized music concerts with world music acts, including Senyawa (from Indonesia), Praed (from Lebanon), and the Thai music group, Paradise Bangkok International Molam Band. [9] [12] In 2015 it contributed an article to Kaput Magazine in an editorial exchange. [13]
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