Rip It Up (magazine)

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Rip It Up
Editor	Karl Puschmann
Categories	Music magazine
Frequency	Bi-monthly
Publisher	Satellite Media
Year founded	1977
First issue
Country	New Zealand
Language	English
Website	Rip It Up

Rip It Up is a bi-monthly New Zealand music magazine.

The current editor is Karl Puschmann.

The former editor, Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury (radio and television host and former editor of the Auckland University Student's magazine, Craccum), left late in 2005.

Earlier editor, Scott Kara, left to work for the New Zealand Herald.

The brainchild of Murray Cammick and sister title to creme magazine, Rip It Up was circulated free via record shops for fourteen years as a music rag produced on a meagre budget. In 1991 the quality of the publication improved, making the transition from newsprint to a gloss medium, a direct result of the two dollar charge (NZD) applied to what became a well read and obligatory acquirement during a vist to any music store. In 2001 Rip it Up enjoyed a steady and growing readership reflected in its increasing size and content. Today the Publication is a bi-monthly Magazine that delivers relevant music features and reviews that extend past music into other media eg. television, gaming and books.