This summer, RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM) will add 12 publications to its collection. The new titles are:
- La línea del arco. León: Luis Calvo, 1991–92.
- Mojo navigator. San Francisco: Mojo Publishing Company, 1966–67.
- Muchacha fanzine. San Antonio: Daisy Salinas, 2011–.
- Muchacha mini. San Antonio: Daisy Salinas, 2011–.
- New York rocker. New York: Alan Betrock/Andy Schwartz, 1976–84.
- Progression: The quarterly journal of progressive music. Lowell: John Collinge, 1992–2018.
- Rejoice!. Oxford: University of Mississippi, 1987–94.
- SCAM. Fort Lauderdale/Miami/San Francisco/Brooklyn: Iggy Scam, 1991–2016.
- Sea of tranquility. Louisville: Images and Words, Inc., 2000–01.
- 实验先锋 [Shiyan xianfeng/China avant-garde music fanzine]. Xi county: Xi Productions, 2011–15.
- Spiral. Madrid: Revista Spiral, 1993–96. ISSN 1134-0878
- Women in rock. Cincinnati: Izzy Krombholz, 2016–20.
These new additions span magazines and zines in Chinese, English, and Spanish and document progressive rock, punk, avant-garde music and more across three continents. Together, these rare publications offer an international perspective on popular music scenes and artists of the last 60 years.
RAPMM now comprises more than 135 independently published popular music magazines and fanzines dating from the late 1960s to the present day. This continually expanding collection of digitized and fully searchable publications serves as a valuable resource for multidisciplinary research into the history of global popular music and its relation to politics and society, underground scenes, stylistic shifts, feminism, iconography, and more.