TOUR OF DUTY
a major foe for the past two decades as digital media has come to dominate the mainstream. But 25 years ago, guitar magazines faced a peril equally as formidable: rap. As the urban contemporary genre became dominant in the late 1990s, guitar-based music faded from the airwaves for the first time since, and . (Remarkably, I’ve worked at each of those titles.) The result was a culling that killed off , , which I was then editing, and several other now-forgotten publications.
