The Stool Pigeon is a free, fully independent, self-distributed and award-winning music newspaper based in London. It’s edited by Phil Hebblethwaite, designed by Mickey Gibbons, printed five times a year and available all over the UK and Berlin.
It is also now a website.
We are the current holders of the Record of The Day ‘Best Free Music Magazine’ award. Strictly speaking, we’re a newspaper, but you get the idea. Thanks to those who voted for us.
From The Fader magazine, New York City: “Everyone hates on the NME, but good people, that thing comes out 52 times a year. I can’t even imagine putting out a weekly music magazine – that means you have to cover everyone who ever got an abstract haircut and a keytar. Which is why I was psyched/relieved/intrigued when intrepid photographer Michael Schmelling altered me to the existence of an excellent five-times-a-year, London-based newsprint music rag known as The Stool Pigeon. The Pigeon brilliantly asks all the wrong questions of everyone from Beck to Aaron Lacrate to Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, getting completely sonned in interviews and sharing every painful minute of it, making our favorite rock icons seem like, well, the ‘regular dudes’ they are. So while there’s no sense in hating the NME, I wouldn’t actually recommend that anyone read it either, especially now that the mighty Pigeon has landed, its entertaining and overbearing self-consciousness fully intact.”
