BAM (short for Bay Area Music) was a free bi-weekly music magazine founded and published by Dennis Erokan in the San Francisco Bay Area from January 1976 until June 1999.
[2] In the mid-1980s the magazine reached its largest circulation of 130,000 biweekly throughout California, after opening an office in Los Angeles.
[3] After the opening of the Los Angeles office, separate Northern and Southern editions of BAM were published.
[3] In 2011, BAM returned as an online magazine at BAMmagazine.com,[5] operated by Dennis Erokan.
[5] MicroTimes was a free regional computer magazine, focused on industry personalities, founded and published by Dennis Erokan in the San Francisco Bay Area starting in 1984 and sold in 1999.