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BOY HOWDY!

CREEM, America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine, 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. After a 33-year hiatus, CREEM returned in 2022 as an premium print quarterly available exclusively at creem.com. CREEM is produced by a small team of writers, editors, and rabble rousers strewn across the country who are united by a simple belief: rock isn't dead, and neither is print. Boy Howdy!

  • 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.

CREEM: AMERICA’S ONLY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL MAGAZINE

Capturing the messy upheaval of the ‘70s just as rock was re-inventing itself, the film explores CREEM Magazine’s humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, and its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse. Ripping back the curtain on CREEM’s wild and disruptive newsroom and the band of unruly outsiders that ran it, (genius clown prince Lester Bangs, visionary publisher Barry Kramer, and others who weren't all that different than the rock stars they covered), the film explores why even over fifty years after publishing its first issue, “America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine” remains a seditious spirit in music and culture. Watch the trailer.

Directed by Scott Crawford. Watch on Amazon, Apple TV, or Fandango.

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

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