Creem

CREEM is a rock and roll magazine started in 1969 by Barry Kramer and Tony Reay. It shut down production in 1988, but will resume printing in 2005. The music journalist Lester Bangs was employed by Creem. The term "punk rock" was coined by this magazine.

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Rock and roll - Magazine - 1969 - Barry Kramer - Tony Reay - 1988 - Lester Bangs

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The magazine was based in Detroit, Michigan, and its separation from the centers of tastemaking and the entertainment industry in the United States encouraged a certain irreverent, deprecatory tone that

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Detroit, Michigan - United States

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permeated the magazine. Its location also encouraged it to be amongst the first national publications to

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cover local artists such as Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, Ted Nugent and Parliament-Funkadelic and other Midwesterners such as Cheap Trick and The Raspberries in great depth. Creem picked up on the punk rock and new wave movements early on, long before its California rival Rolling Stone did.

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Iggy Pop - Alice Cooper - Bob Seger - Ted Nugent - Parliament-Funkadelic - Cheap Trick - The Raspberries - Punk rock - New wave - California - Rolling Stone

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Writers for CREEM included Tony Reay (writing as 'Ice Alexander'), Richard Meltzer, Dave DiMartino, Penny Valentine, Richard Riegel, Legs McNeil, Dave Marsh, Greil Marcus, Patti Smith, Nick Tosches, Cameron Crowe, and Bill Holdship, who became the final editor of Creem in the mid-1980s. The magazine moved its base of operations to Los Angeles shortly before its demise.

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Tony Reay - Richard Meltzer - Dave DiMartino - Penny Valentine - Richard Riegel - Legs McNeil - Dave Marsh - Greil Marcus - Patti Smith - Nick Tosches - Cameron Crowe - Bill Holdship - Los Angeles

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