One of the longest-running independent music magazines online, KLOF has been championing intelligent, uncompromising voices in contemporary and experimental music since 2004 (previously known as Folk Radio UK) — 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.
All our selections, playlists, and mixtapes are made by humans not algorithms
KLOF Mag Selects
KLOF Mag Selects is our companion Substack Bestseller, and was selected as a Featured Publication in 2024 by Colin Meloy of The Decemberists:
“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)
Our free Substack Subscribers receive an abbreviated weekly digest of highlights and occasional special posts.
If you want more, paid subscribers get full access to everything we’ve published via our Substack archive, which goes back to 2020, as well as our popular Monday Morning Brew Playlist, which I curate and send every week. In those weekly emails, you’ll also find a short write up revealing my latest album recommendations.
All of this for the cost of a coffee and the knowledge that you are helping to make what we do sustainable.
Contact Us
- Advertising: alex@klofmag.com
- Submissions: submissions@klofmag.com
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