John Martin

Greetings from the foothills of the White Mountains where the mercury registered a brisk -5F out this morning! As you all know, it's a New England tradition to not turn on the heat until November, but I try and go the extra mile and not fire up the wood stove until Thanksgiving. I gave in a few weeks shy of my goal, but it's been extra cozy ever since.

On the rock front, we published the 13th issue of CREEM! And it was the closest we've ever come to putting a band on the cover: a photo of a fan passed out on an Oasis flag. Kind of how we all feel after one of the best years of rock 'n' roll in recent memory, right? Little backstory on how the cover came to be: @tunamelt1978 was on a bender at the gigs in Wales and sent me a nonsensical, incoherent rant about the shows proclaiming it "was an article for Creem" which he probably doesn't remember doing, as well as the photo. I hit "delete" on the "article" but pestered him, repeatedly, to "email me the high-res photo and submit an invoice" which he finally did. Our best cover yet, some might say. And we still have no clue who the young lad on the cover is, but maybe someday he'll surface. You can order one of the few remaining copies at creem.com - or even subscribe - and still receive in time to stuff in your stocking.

And if you're in NYC on Thursday evening, swing through our event (see prior post) - we just might have some advances of Issue 14 too...