Rip & Burn Review

Overall Rating

Some good articles

It's like one giant advert for iPod yet failed to convinced me I'd be better off with an iPod rather than what I've already got....

Rip & Burn is a new digital music magazine that combines the idea of a gadget magazine with a music magazine. It's fairly genre-free but remains on the cutting edge of dance, indie, rock and pop in terms of what's covered. The issue I bought had features on Snow Patrol, Ian Brown and R. Kelly. There's lots of gadget discussion, music news and a fairly hefty reviews section, so it did have quite a good amount of information.

The only real problem I saw, and what would keep me from buying it again, is that it seems to be sponsored by iPod. There was barely a mention that there are TONS of other (better) MP3 players out there. I'd like to know what gadgets I can get for mine! Frankly, the gadgets they did mention - like the iPod voice recorder - only add features that many other Mp3 players already have (built-in internal & external mics anyone?).

As a result, the magazine seems more geared at a particular lifestyle than at a subsection of people who are into music or gadgets or both - you have to like music, gadgets and be more concerned about branding than quality, apparently.

It's not a bad read, but maybe a bit of a wider focus on MP3 players as a whole would do nicely.

I did like the feature giving you 24 hours worth of tracks to put on your digital music player. I even liked a lot of them - and I'm quite picky about my music.