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Black Velvet is an independent, digital rock music magazine. Published and edited by Shari Black Velvet, it features rock and pop-punk - basically any good, catchy music. We're all about good songs.
Black Velvet is produced because of our love of rock music. We write about the bands we love. We want to write about the music that inspires us, that excites us.
Black Velvet is a non-profit-making zine, run by volunteers, out of a sheer love of music and wanting to promote and spread the word about the bands we love and think deserve support.
Previously a printed magazine, Black Velvet is now online so you can read it in full, for free. Although we also sell a few limited edition printed copies, if you'd like a printed mag.
If
you're new to Black Velvet and would like to check out some of the old printed back issues, you can go to the Back
Issues page and stock up - or head to the Digital Issues page for some online viewing.
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If you think you've got what it takes to contribute to Black Velvet, we'd love to hear from you. We'd currently love to hear from anyone interested in writing album reviews.
If you're interested in being an interviewer, we strive for interesting, thought-provoking, individual questions. Send us an email and let us know more.
If you're a photographer who also likes doing interviews and writing reviews, we'd definitely love to hear from you.
All positions are voluntary. We do this in our spare time as a hobby, as we love music, so love promoting it.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Find us on Instagram @blackvelvetmagazine
Shari
Black Velvet is the editor of Black Velvet. She also reviews, interviews
and photographs bands, as well as laying out the zine in its entirety,
working on the website, maintaining the social media pages, and more.
Shari Says...
I'm on a quest for the perfect question. Basically, I take everything I do really seriously, no more so than interviewing. I pretty much only interview bands I really love, and when an interview has been scheduled I will research for a long, long, long time in order to come up with good questions. In fact, I don't want to come up with 'good' questions, I want to come up with 'great' questions. The best questions. I'm a perfectionist so something inside of me wants whoever I'm interviewing to think my interview was awesome. I don't want to just do an ok interview. I want to make a mark. I want them to think back afterwards and think 'that Black Velvet interview was a great and interesting interview'. I will read every single interview I can find online that the artist has done previously and try to avoid questions he/she's been asked before. Sometimes reading past interviews can inspire me to think of new questions - for example if they touch on a subject or say something interesting then that might spark an idea for a new question that's not been asked. I'm constantly striving to make my interview questions the best they can be. Sometimes it's hard when the interviewer has been interviewed a thousand times already - but I guess that just makes me work even harder. Being a perfectionist means I'm also very fussy about interviews that contributors do. I want my contributors to have a similar outlook as me - and not any basic, boring questions or questions that have been asked too many times before, and spend a long time researching for their interview. If I take on a new contributor I like to check their questions for the first few interviews, to make sure it's going to be ok.
Concert photography is probably one of my fave things in the whole world. There's a certain buzz with being in a photopit and taking photos of great bands. If I ever go to a concert and am not taking photos I'm bummed out because it's become a part of me (thankfully that rarely happens these days). My main camera is a Nikon D750. When I get home from a show that I've taken photos of I usually feel the urge to try and get some photos on the Black Velvet website as soon as possible. I usually stay up til 4am editing photos to get them online as soon as I can.
I am Black Velvet! Black Velvet has been my life for over 25 years. Black Velvet is honest, and real, and all about the good music out there. We don't write about music that bores us, music we're not into, we write about music that inspires us... and that should inspire you too - if you have good taste! ;-)
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