 August 2009 issue | |
| CEO | Simon M Sørensen |
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| Editor-in-Chief | Ole Rosenstand Svidt (DK), Johanna Eriksson (SE), Sigurd Elgenes (NO) |
| Former editors | Sidsel Thomassen, Peter Ramsdal |
| Categories | Music magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| First issue | September 1983 |
| Company | Gaffa A/S |
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| Based in | Frederiksberg,Denmark |
| Language | |
| Website | gaffa |
Gaffa (stylized asGAFFA) is a freeNordicmusic magazine with local editions inDenmark,Norway, andSweden.Gaffa is Denmark's largest and oldest music magazine. It has been published since 1983 and has 320,000 print readers and 750,000 online readers each month.[1]
The namegaffa comes fromgaffer tape, with the magazine's stated intention of "binding the different parts of themusic community together".[2]
Gaffa has been published on a monthly basis since 1983.[3] The magazine is distributed to places such as educational institutions,record shops, libraries and cafés, as well as a small number to paying subscribers.[4] It features music news and notes, interviews, album reviews and upcoming concert schedules.
Gaffa's website, GAFFA.dk, was established in 1996.[5] Since December 2008 all back issues of the magazine are accessible online free of charge.[6]
In 2008Gaffa launched GAFFA live, a concert overview for Denmark, Sweden and Norway. In 2009Gaffa was launched in Sweden,GAFFA Sweden, and in 2011 in Norway,GAFFA Norway.
In April 2006,Gaffa launched a user-written music encyclopedia, GAFFApedia, as a subsection of its website.[7] Based onMediaWiki, it is similar toWikipedia and covered by theCreative CommonsAttribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike licence.[8][9] GAFFApedia was closed in 2010.
TheGAFFA Awards (Danish:GAFFA-Prisen) are an annual event created in 1991 to hand out prizes for music achievements. Since 2010, the awards have been held at a large gala show in Copenhagen, in Odense (2017-2019) and in Aarhus Musikhuset since 2020.[10][11] Categories include Album of the Year, Foreign Album of the Year, Singer of the Year and Foreign Singer of the Year.[12]
Since 2010,GAFFA’s Swedish readers have also voted for and celebrated their favourite artists throughGAFFA Priset.[13] In 2012,GAFFA Norway similarly established its version of the awards.[14]
Vores idé med bladet er, at det skal have samme effekt som "GAFFA-tape": at få de forskellige grene af musikmiljøet til at hænge sammen