I'm happy to welcome the journal Dancecult into the world. Found it through a link on Simon Reynold's Facebook page, so it has to be good. I'm excited to see a new crop of widely-defined genre based journals for popular music opening, and hope that the respective conversations occuring in them will prove to be more fruitful and will reflect back on the larger world of popular music scholarship.

I'm also excited to see the whole thing as an open access journal licensed under Creative Commons. Science journals are taking the lead in this, and it is high time that humanities and social science journals do the same. But there is so much resistance - especially from the heavyweight publishers with whom there are long term contracts - that I think the model of opening new journals rather than mess with the old might be the best way to go for now.