Jersey Beat
Cover of issue no. 68.
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| Editor | Jim Testa |
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| Staff writers |
Columnists
Tony B.
Deborah Draisin Stephen Gritzan Rich Quinlin Paul Silver Jim Testa Eric Walls Joe Wawzyrniak |
| Categories | Music |
| Circulation | triannual (print, ended 2007) |
| Publisher | Jersey Beat & Not a Mongo Multimedia |
| Founder | Jim Testa |
| First issue | March 1982 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Weehawken, New Jersey |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| OCLC number | 61183832 |
Jersey Beat is an American music zine. It was founded in 1982 by music critic Jim Testa. As of 2007, the zine stopped publishing print issues but continues as an online publication. Jersey Beat covers the music scene, both internationally and locally, with special emphasis on the East Coast states.
By the late 1970s, Testa had graduated from Rutgers University and upon returning home, frequented burgeoning punk music clubs like CBGB and Maxwell's. A former college associate was running a fanzine in Washington D.C. called Discords, which featured a column submitted by Testa called "Jersey Beat". After Discords folded, Testa began publishing his own zine Jersey Beat in 1982. The name is a play on Mersey Beat, an early 1960s English music publication. In The World of Zines: a Guide to the Independent Magazine Revolution, authors Gunderloy and Goldberg Janice note that Jersey Beat went "from a small review of New Jersey alternative bands to becoming one of the most thoughtful new music zines in the nation".
There have been many well-known staff and contributors to Jersey Beat; former writers include Donny the Punk, Jim DeRogatis, Karen Schoemer, Chris Frantz, Ben Weasel, Joe Queer, Johnny Puke, and Tris McCall. In 1998, Screeching Weasel's Ben Weasel included Jersey Beat in the lyrics to "My Friends Are Getting Famous," which appeared on Lookout Records' Punk USA compilation.
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