As editor, publisher, and founder of the Internet-only music magazine Addicted to Noise , Goldberg has made it his business to avoid the paper industry altogether. Online since December 1994 and averaging 400,000 visits per month, ATN balances a slate of daily music news with a monthly issue packed with interviews, reviews, and essays by journalism heavyweights Greil Marcus and Dave Marsh. With ATN 's success as a sort of Rolling Stone of e-'zines have come the expected cries of corporate meddling. Some guy in a suit isn't going to tell me what to write about. Like their pulp kin, the Web pages of Addicted to Noise still manage to overlook huge swaths of the music underground.
Silencer covers sacred ground, dealing with musicians on the edge of the rock frontier.
The current issue offers interviews with the Dirty Three and Ui, as well as numerous reviews and think pieces. The Belgian Web 'zine Ultra takes a markedly less serious approach to similar music. The UK's Fly magazine deals almost exclusively in electronica and the rise of DJ culture. For jazz fans, Gallery 41 offers photos and interviews with avant-garde jazz musicians like Don Cherry, Sonny Simmons, and Vijay Iyer. With the price of admission little more than the cost of dialing up a potential worldwide audience, publishers online have been quick to realize that they've got a good thing going here.