I would say Downbeat is the best magazine being produced.  Every issue has so many albums reviewed with a great explanation.  I think that is missing from the more techy types.  Also rhythm is handled very differently depending on the instrument so when you exclude rhythmical labelings these magazines do a disservice in some ways.  Next year I plan to subscribe to quite a few which are the best.  Electronic Musician, Record, Computers and music vs Keyboard and Guitar player and Downbeat.  What other good magazines are there?

'Music' covers a broad spectrum. What kind of music? Making or listening music? Etc
Try Sound on Sound (SOS).
 
Cheers..

For recording I enjoy MIX and SOS (Sound on Sound). I used to enjoy Electronic Musician, but can't find it locally anymore.  As a guitarist, "Guitar Player" has always been my go to since the early 80's.
 
I don't buy any magazine that is strictly based on reviews, gossip and/or rumors. I find myself growing disinterested in all magazines as the "ads to articles" ratio continues to get more and more lopsided.  Now that I am 50+, I also find the layout of many magazines difficult to read w/ small text & low contrast.
 
Just my 2 cents...

Hi,
 
I spend a lot looking at many of those things, and the Computer/Music things are not very good, and they skip too many steps and do not discuss one piece of software enough for you to learn anything. The CM (Computer Music) early days for beginners was horrible and would switch programs after 2 small screenshots, and you wonder how you went from here to there ... for a beginner that's not good.
 
Most of these do not have the editorial capability to "teach" and help. It's all just a commercial for their own artists and software.
 
I do pick up Bass Guitar once in a while, and I do not dislike it ... however, their choice for players and interviews is ridiculous, and poor and they can not even discuss other bass players and their work around the world. There are far better players out there, but they are doing different music, and it would not fit the commercial/pop/jazz style that they are pushing.
 
Likewise, their continued discussion of the same guitars, over and over and over again, is getting old and pathetic. There are no new instruments, with different designs, and of course, no one plays them because they wouldn't know rock'n'roll.
 
That's a bit facile, and biZarre, and silly, and those magazines are nothing but a commercial advertising for whatever companies they can get to pay for the paper. They will be dead in a few years, as the digital editions will  not bring in enough money for them!
 
As I mentioned before, the teaching of music is going to die out ... because of magazines like this, that are more interested in the stars that can not play much anyway, than they are in the music and its implementation and design. It's like only Bootsie can play an Am and Bapu can't ... it's ridiculous ... Bapu probably plays it better!

Outside of recording, 'Mojo' is hard to beat.

I got my mojo working.
 
Oar Dew Eye?

bapu
I got my mojo working.
 
Oar Dew Eye?

Only Ewe wood know.......if not, it's a signal for SOS.

I didn't care for Electronic Musician and didn't renew. TapeOp is a "no brainer", it is free and it is good.
I like Recording Magazine.
I like GuitarPlayer (usually) some issues are great others stink. I just got the new one, haven't looked at it but The BEATLES are on the cover and the tagline is ULTIMATE BEATLES GEAR.
 
Musicplayer is the magazine group for GuitarPlayer and they have instrument specific magazines.
 
For the producer, TapeOp is probably, IMO, the best. Recording is all around home recording with some useful gear reviews and running series on different subjects like setting up for best acoustics in critical listening, etc.
 
So... for me, those three work. I think they all come with print and tablet issues.
 
I enjoy them all. Sometimes I learn something. Usually I get some GAS... thankfully it is usually temporary. I come across some new hardware or software, or some guitar that strikes me. There is a review in the Recording Mag that came yesterday on the new AGKC314. 
TapeOp is just special.
 
http://tapeop.com/
 
J

My take on Computer music is that technical and Genre traditions go along together.  It seems that no time is spent on discussing common introductions in a genre or a common theme that might run through a culture and why musically it might be expressed this way.   When you use electronics it has to fit the style but the styles come out of cultures which always seem to be left out.  I agree with you that steps are left out and I would wwrite out each section and just pair one word to a following and built my vocabulary that way now I am trying to fit that back to styles to actually invent music.  (The cultural process) I guess is what my complaint is is not being talked about. 

For equipment reviews, technological and recording related stuff, Sound on Sound.
 
For music and music related journalism, probably the New Musical Express, 1976 to 1981 :-)