The newly merged Rip It Up / Back 2 Basics magazine, under the editorship of Phil Bell (aka DJ SirVere), is out now.

"There are a few reasons why it (the merger) happened, he writes in his latest blog. One in particular is that the magazines were fighting for stories. In reality, Savage could have easily been to cover of the last Rip It Up, we were just at war over stories. In any case, I'm the new editor of Rip It Up and loving it."