Lexicon Magazine Keeps New Wave Alive
A few months ago I did a series of articles about great non-mainstream music magazines that aren't available at every newsstand. If you missed them, read them now! There were three articles in the series, and you can find them here:
You have to do some searching to find them, but it's worth the search. Lexicon was one of the featured magazines, and I liked it so much I decided they deserved a whole article all to themselves.
The reason I like Lexicon so much is their focus on 80's New Wave artists. In addition, you can also find out about today's artists that carry on that New Wave tradition. Some of the artists that have been featured in Lexicon's pages in the past few issues include Marc Almond, Dave Wakeling, Gene Loves Jezebel, The Church, A-Ha, ABC, Art of Noise, Aztec Camera, Dead Or Alive, Thomas Dolby, Duran Duran, Human League, Information Society, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Howard Jones, OMD, Real Life, The Waitresses and many more. Each issue also contains reviews of new and re-released material, and features such as the best albums of the 80's.
Lexicon has also recently started their own record label, and hope to re-release some classic 80's music that isn't available on CD, along with new synthpop artists.
Lexicon's editor, David Richards, was kind enough to do an interview. The transcript follows:
Describe Lexicon to someone who has never read it.
We are a quarterly print mag that features interviews, articles, discographies, news, and reviews about musicians who came of age during the '80s. We try to cover a broad spectrum of music, from what was more mainstream in the '80s (like John Waite or Duran Duran) to the somewhat more alternative music like XTC or Art of Noise.
We try to focus a lot on what these people are doing today, on their vitality. We're not above asking about things they did in the '80s, but I think it is much more interesting to hear about what they do now that they are not in the spotlight as much.
Additionally we cover what we like to term the "children of the '80s." These are people who are making music today in the styles that were popular in the '80s. There is a very vital underground scene in the US and Europe for what has been termed Modern Synthpop, sort of sons of Depeche Mode as it were. We are also trying to branch out to track
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