ABOUT CREEM

Founded in Detroit in 1969, CREEM ushered in a new era of rock journalism—irreverent, highly opinionated, and never afraid to rattle some cages. Its pages were home to a murderers’ row of legendary writers, including Lester Bangs, Dave Marsh, Jaan Uhelszki, Susan Whitall, Cameron Crowe, Greil Marcus, and plenty more.

Relaunched in 2022 as a premium print quarterly, America’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll Magazine is still written, edited, photographed, illustrated, designed, and argued over by actual human beings. Because rock isn’t dead. And neither is print.

Want more? Dig into the CREEM Archive, featuring every issue from 1969–1989 and 2022 to today. Decades of legendary interviews, questionable opinions, and rock ’n’ roll history, preserved exactly as it appeared in print. No algorithm required.

    THE DOCUMENTARY

    CREEM: America’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll Magazine captures the messy upheaval of the 1970s, just as rock music was reinventing itself. The film traces CREEM Magazine’s humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit and its unlikely rise from underground paper to national powerhouse. Pulling back the curtain on CREEM’s wild, disruptive newsroom—and the unruly outsiders who ran it, including genius clown prince Lester Bangs, visionary publisher Barry Kramer, and others not so different from the rock stars they covered—the film explores why, more than fifty years after its first issue, CREEM’s seditious spirit still echoes through music and culture.

    Directed by Scott Crawford. Watch the trailer and stream on Amazon, Apple TV, Veeps, and Qello.

    STARRING ALICE COOPER, JOAN JETT, GENE SIMMONS, KIRK HAMMETT, MICHAEL STIPE, THURSTON MOORE, CAMERON CROWE, AND MORE

    “Irreverent, boundary-smashing”
    -The New York Times