Gaffa (magazine)


Gaffa is a free Danish music magazine distributed in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Gaffa is Denmark's largest and oldest music magazine. It has been published since 1983 and has about 135,000 print readers and 200,000 online readers each month.

History and profile

Gaffa has been published on a monthly basis since 1983. The magazine is distributed to places such as educational institutions, record shops, libraries and cafés, as well as a small number to paying subscribers. It features music news and notes, interviews, album reviews and upcoming concert schedules.
The name gaffa comes from gaffer tape, with the magazine's stated intention of "binding the different parts of the music community together".

Website

Gaffa's website, GAFFA.dk, was established in 1996. Since December 2008 all back issues of the magazine are accessible online free of charge.
In 2008 Gaffa launched - a concert overview for Denmark, Sweden and Norway. In 2009 Gaffa was launched in Sweden and in 2011 in Norway.
In April 2006, Gaffa launched a user-written music encyclopedia, GAFFApedia, as a subsection of its website. Based on MediaWiki, it is similar to Wikipedia and covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike licence. GAFFApedia was closed in 2010.

''GAFFA'' Awards

The GAFFA Awards 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. Categories include Album of the Year, Foreign Album of the Year, Singer of the Year and Foreign Singer of the Year.
Since 2010, GAFFA’s Swedish readers have also voted for and celebrated their favourite artists through GAFFA Priset. In 2012, GAFFA Norway similarly established its version of the awards.