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Tumbling Pebble was founded in San Francisco in November 1967, in two rooms above a print shop south of Market Street, by Desmond Pryor, who had eleven hundred dollars, a typewriter and the conviction that American music was being made in more places than American magazines were willing to visit. The first issue ran sixteen pages and sold for a quarter.

In 1978 the magazine moved its editorial offices to New York, to a loft on Hudson Street. The San Francisco office stayed open, on the same floor as before. The magazine has been published every other Thursday since the first issue, with a double issue at the end of the year.

Our rule has not changed in twenty years. We go to the show. We review records on their merits, under the critic's own name, and we award stars at the time and do not take them back. We print what we saw and not what we were told. When a band in Odessa or Missoula or Detroit is better than the band on the cover of every other magazine, we put it on ours, and we are usually there first.

Letters to the editor may be addressed to either office. Letters may be edited for length and clarity. Unsolicited manuscripts must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Records for review should be sent to the Records Editor in New York. We listen to all of them.

— The Editors, November 1987