Two more music magazines close

Following on from the print demise of Hip Hop Connection, two more British magazines which covered Hip Hop, amongst other musical forms, have gone out of print.

Drum and bass centric magazine Knowledge has taken the decision to go online only after its final issue is published on 12 June. In a statement on the magazines website they said, "We've been busy building our new website for some months now and we were initially planning to run it alongside the magazine but the further down the road we've gone with the site, the more potential we have seen for the magazine online."

The new site will contain a Hip Hop section complete with regularly updated content.

Hipster music magazine Plan B has also folded after five years on the stands. The magazine which has previously featured Wiley, Roots Manuva and Lycra-clad hipster favourite MIA on the cover is reported as saying it would have to compromise on frequency, size and quality to stay in print which it was not prepared to do.

Whether the illegibility of both their brand logo and cover-lines is a factor in not gaining enough readers has not been confirmed.

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