America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

Founded in 1969 and relaunched in 2022 as a limited-run premium print quarterly, each issue delivers 144+ pages of journalism, photography, and illustration.

Rock isn’t dead, and neither is print.

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OUR HISTORY

CREEM was born in Detroit in 1969 as a raw, unfiltered music rag. For two decades, it broke barriers, raised profiles, bruised egos, and redefined participatory journalism.

  • CREEM History: 1969-1973

    The publishing underground rises up, slaps on a backstage pass and the world feels the first ripples of the what happens when you give hippies electric typewriters and free records. Clowns go bad!

  • The Golden Years: 1973-1978

    It was the dawn of a new era, and CREEM became the rock and roll bible of little booger-eating twerps everywhere.

  • The New Wave: 1979-1986

    After the departure of Bangs, Uhelszki, and Marsh, Susan Whitall keeps the punk rock flame burning bright.

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 Quello.

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

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