One of the longest-running independent music magazines online, KLOF has been championing intelligent, uncompromising voices in contemporary and experimental music since 2004 — through reviews, interviews, guest articles, news, playlists and mixtapes.
We amplify individuals and collectives that sit outside the mainstream: folk, experimental, ambient, avant-garde, jazz, field recordings and electro-acoustic. We cover marginal music with the same depth and reverence that the mainstream reserves for its tired canon.
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Our KLOF Magazine Newsletter is a Substack Bestseller, and was selected as Featured Publication in 2024 by Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, who guest-edited “Substack Reads” that week:
“I’ve learned about most of the music I’ve loved over the past couple years from the fine people at this publication.” — Colin Meloy (The Decemberists)
The free KLOF Substack delivers an abbreviated weekly digest of what we’ve been covering and writing about.
Paid subscribers get:
- Access to exclusive weekly playlists,
- Music recommendations from the Editor,
- Exclusive posts,
- Access to our Full Substack Archive
- The knowledge that you are helping to make what we do sustainable.
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Everything we publish is curated by a person, not an algorithm. After twenty-two years we still go digging ourselves — mostly on Bandcamp — for music worth your time, and there are fewer people doing this now than there were a decade ago. Subscriptions are what keep it going: for around the price of a coffee a month, you help make independent, human curation sustainable.
Want the fuller story? How and Why we Share Music sets out how it all works, and why it matters so much to us, to independent artists, and to readers.
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