LAS Magazine
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Type of site
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Art Entertainment Lifestyle webzine |
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| Website | www.lostatsea.net |
| Alexa rank |
 10,224,916 (April 2014[update]) |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | 1998 |
| Current status | Active |
LAS Magazine, also known as Lost At Sea or LostAtSea.net, is a daily online magazine founded in 1998 by Eric J Herboth. An online social group for the magazine list it in the "Entertainment & Arts - Online Media" category with a description of "Art. Bike. Music. Media. Literature. Photography. Travel. Comics. Festivals. Sports? Yeah, a bit of that, too. Updated whenever, forever, since 1998." The magazine includes writing and photography contributions from Canada, Mexico, the United States, England, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, France, South Africa, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Washington DC, but the publication maintains no fixed office.
The magazine began as a monthly publication with early articles on the artists and sculptors Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the media company Insound, neo-fascist Austrian politician Jörg Haider, the rock band Frodus, reviews of books by David Guterson and Stuart O'Nan and photo series by Dutch artist André Thijssen. The program was mixed early on, anthologized and augmented with a short series of book form magazines collecting articles from the website with pieces of artwork, found laminates and collages assembled in the zine fashion with long-reach staplers, binding glue and posterboard. Fewer than 50 copies were made.
In 2000 the magazine was "honored in the rock sites category for being, well, a cool resource and concise resource for indie music news" with a WoodEe award for online excellence from Tim McMahan of Lazy-i Magazine. That year the magazine evolved into a more regular endeavor with a gradual increase to weekly updates and then to a daily publishing schedule with short pieces of journalism, criticism, commentary, and personal essays.
A "news" section featured on the front page of the site includes short notes and links to articles on the web. Music reviews are published regularly by a staff of contributors and freelancers and according to a 2009 poll on the site's website account for 56% of reader interest. The main page of the site is also regularly updated with an MP3 Downloads section and a MultiMediaBox posting links to videos and mixtape downloads.
A monthly column of hip-hop music notes and commentary called "Glaciers of Ice" has been written by Jonah Flicker since 2005. Another music column called "EPmd (No relation to the seminal rap group of the same, er, acronym.)" was begun by Erick Bieritz in 2004 as a column of short reviews on singles and EPs and then taken over in 2005 by writer Kevin Alfoldy with a more narrative and anecdotal format.
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