Editor-in-Chief | Philippe Manœuvre |
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Categories | Music magazine |
Frequency | Monthly |
Publisher | Patrick Casanovas |
First issue | 1966 |
Company | Editions Larivière |
Country | France |
Based in | Paris |
Language | French |
Website | www.rocknfolk.com |
ISSN | 0750-7852 |
Rock & Folk is a prominent French popular music magazine founded in 1966, and published in the Paris suburb of Clichy. Its current editor in chief in Philippe Manœuvre. Though the magazine's title includes the word "folk," it is in fact oriented strongly toward rock and roll.
During the early 1980s, the magazine reached peak distribution around 140-150 thousand copies per issue. In the 2000s, the distribution has fallen to an average of 37 to 42 thousand per issue.
The magazine has also broadened its scope of rock and folk to include coverage of newer electronic music as well as hip hop.