Alongside cutting edge graphics, the magazine championed the works of emerging writers, photographers, and illustrators as well as providing an alternative context for world renowned writers including Commonwealth Writers' Prize winner Pauline Melville, and Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje. The magazine was often compared with the US magazine publication "Wax Poetics" which came along later, and could be argued copied Straight No Chaser's style in some design and content ways. The original magazine had 92 issues, released across two volumes of 46 issues in each: the first volume from 1988 to 1998, the second from 1998 to the last edition in 2007. In 2017, a new volume of the magazine was released, with three issues being released so far. Photo cover artists featured on the first volume issues:  Photo cover artists featured on the second volume issues:  Photo cover artists featured on the later volume issues:  For various reasons, not least the spread of the internet and declining magazine sales, plus the changing affects in the general music culture from vinyl and CD collecting to more digital downloading, Bradshaw decided to shut the original magazine down in 2007 with the last issue being number 46 from volume 2, the Summer edition released around August that year. No digital versions (pdf, ePub, or similar, format) of the magazine were ever released, and there have so far been no plans to reissue them as such. In January 2017, a relaunch was announced with sales of the first issue (strangely sold as "issue 98") going live online on 1 September 2017, with a second issue (sold as "issue 99") released in September 2018., and third issue ("issue 100") released in September 2019