Blow Up (magazine)

[1] Besides articles related to music, the magazine also contains sections devoted to literature and film analysis.

Blow Up was founded in September 1995 as a fanzine that evolved into a monthly magazine.

[2] In addition to the magazine, the Tuttle opened in 2003, a series of books titled "The Books of Harry", dedicated to strands, themes and cultural phenomena related to music and rock culture.

The magazine has received the Premio Lo Straniero in 2010, with the following motivation: "By acting from the margins and in total independence, [Stefano Isidoro Bianchi] preceded the prior music press for treating non-conventional or free distribution in the national territory, and has contributed significantly to the formation of the latest generation of listeners, musicians and critics.

In a period of the utmost confusion in music, [Stefano Isidoro Bianchi] kept his desire to offer routes of synthesis that were trying to be placed into coherent movements, which were otherwise isolated or fragmented, that crossed the body of underground music.