''Inpress'' was a free weekly
tabloid
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-sized music magazine (
street press) that was published in
Melbourne,
and was released in the
Geelong
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and
Mornington Peninsula areas of
Victoria, Australia. The magazine was published by
Street Press Australia[ on a weekly basis every Wednesday.
The magazine comprised three main sections: All music news, features and reviews fall under the ''Inpress'' banner, arts and film is covered by ''Interval'', and the central section is dance music/ urban music and nightclubbing magazine ''Zebra'', which is also distributed separately from ''Inpress''.
The magazine was created by Rowena Webber (later Sladdin) and Andrew Watt, with the first issue was released on 13 July 1988. Webber edited the magazine for the first nine years. Subsequent editors of the paper included Andrew Mast (Managing Editor), Shane O'Donohue (Editor), Kris Swales (''Zebra'' Editor) and Daniel Crichton-Rouse (''Interval'' Editor). Myf Warhurst is a former editor.
''Inpress'' also frequently published 'special features', such as their yearly Melbourne International Comedy Festival guide.
''Inpress'' contained many popular features, including local cartoonist and musician Fred Negro's weekly cult comic strip, ''Pub''. Other notable features within ''Inpress'' included ''Finish Line'' (industry news column), Sugarfoot's ''SoDa Pop'' (pop gossip/news column - a differently named version of which had previously appeared in '' Beat Magazine'' until early 2004; Jeff Jenkins' ''Howzat!'' (indie rock and pop news), Clem Bastow's ''Singled Out'' (singles reviews column) and Anthony Carew's (some would say) notorious film reviews column in ''Interval'', ''Film Carew''.
in 2006, Interests associated with ''Inpress'' publishers Craig and Leigh Treweek bought the influential ]Sydney
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street press '' Drum Media''. Craig Treweek said at the time that "This is a great opportunity to build a strong music media outlet that is supportive of the local music scene at a grass roots level."
In August 2013 ''Inpress'' and other two magazines of the company, ''Drum Media'' and '' Time Off'', were merged under a new title, '' The Music''.[ The final issue of ''Inpress'' was #1286, published on August 7, 2013.]
References
External links
Official website
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Digital archive of issues
(2010-2013)
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