Edited and commented by Ira A Robbins
Zip it up! The Best of Trouser Press Magazine 1974-1984
Issue of Press Pants
April 15, 2024
In the days before the Internet, magazines were a primary resource for music lovers, and Trouser Press is fondly remembered for engaging its readers as an invaluable companion during a decade of exciting musical evolution. Presented as a 440-page, large-format paperback and e-book, Zip it up! The Best of Trouser Press Magazine 1974-1984 offers some of the magazine's best articles fifty years since its inception, as well as a detailed look at how Trouser Press was created and launched from its early days as Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press. Zip it up! includes article sections on 60s, classic rock, glam, prog/art rock, reggae, roots of punk, punk/new wave and more.
While countless websites and books have presented a wealth of text over decades about bands, musicians and music during the period 1974-1984, reading the Trouser Press articles collected in Zip it up! it's like dropping the needle on the rock journalism of that era. For readers who devoured it at the time, Trouser Press could be as integral to the experience as the music it covered.
“I know your type. That's your worst nightmare… If you weren't a journalist, you'd never get invited to anything hip,” Lou Reed told an interviewer in 1979. Fortunately, the hardy Trouser Press staff had thick enough skin to take the weather bullets. as well as softballs. (trouserspressbooks.com)
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