RADIO SILENCE is an award-winning magazine of literature and rock & roll. We’re no longer publishing, but you can still pick up copies of our three award-winning print issues.
"This Bay Area journal is something people have been waiting for for fifty years, whether they knew it or not."
—rock critic Greil Marcus
We no longer publish our signature print magazine—which included interviews, journalism, fiction, poetry, memoirs, essays, and illustrations—but you can still buy it.
PURCHASE PRINT ISSUES $13 each
"1 of the 10 Best New Magazines in the Country."
—Library Journal
"Radio Silence is the bar we all wish we had in the neighborhood. Great jukebox, terrific conversation, and a few things to read quietly with a nightcap when the hour grows late."
—Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket)
If the Paris Review were starting today, it would be called Radio Silence. And if Melville were starting today, Radio Silence is where he’d want to be. How many journals can you say that about? And how many others do you read cover to cover?
—playwright David Ives
LIVE
Radio Silence wasn't only a magazine—it also existed live on stage. From intimate loft parties to large concerts, our events featured writers and musicians in performance and collaboration. These gatherings offered an opportunity to get together with good people who share our love for literature and rock & roll. Performers at Radio Silence events included Stephin Merritt, Tanya Donelly, Sam Lipsyte, James Murphy, Thao Nguyen, Matthew Friedberger, Eleanor Friedberger, John Vanderslice, M. Ward, Sherman Alexie, Greil Marcus, Daniel Handler, Jon Mooallem, the Golden Suits, Shelby Earl, Rick Moody, and many others.
"Radio Silence gets to the feeling of music by being alert to the way great writing itself approaches the musical. I have more fun reading these pages, whether online or in print, than I do almost any other magazine these days."
—best-selling author Rick Moody
In these days of mixing media and crossing borders, what the world has been crying out for is a literary magazine that flows as transportingly as a Van Morrison riff, and a music magazine that reads as elegantly as a Scott Fitzgerald story. Welcome to Radio Silence! I devour each issue as greedily as if I were consuming Granta and Dylan’s next memoir in the same breath.
—writer Pico Iyer
PRESS
Radio Silence was the recipient of a 2015 Pushcart Prize.
"1 of the 10 Best New Magazines in the Country: At the heart of the success of RS is the editor’s fine ear for lyric prose. Stone has wrought a very cool, eminently readable new literary magazine."
—Library Journal
"Best of 2012: Radio Silence seems to have hit upon a killer combo, literature and rock & roll…. Look out, Dave Eggers—you’ve got competition."
—San Francisco magazine
"[In Radio Silence] we’re brought face-to-face with why we turn to books or music (or anything)—for consolation or connection, to see something of ourselves in someone else. It’s not redemption, exactly, but respite, the recognition that for this moment anyway, we are not alone."
—LA Times
