Future Music & Computer Music. I don't buy them regularly (each issue costs about $20 - $25 in Australia), but I keep the issues I've bought and found them surprisingly timeless. The artist interviews are often about the creative process & workflows. They interviewed Moby just before his Play album went to #1, and it contains my favorite quote on impostor syndrome:
"I'd done a mix here and I put it on headphones. Then I thought, just for fun I'd put on [The Prodigy's] The Fat Of The Land. It sounded a million times better so I got very depressed.... When you're working by yourself you can lose objectivity so quickly and molehills become mountains. I'll be working on a song and if I can't get the kick drum to sound right I'll think I'm a failure and walk around Manhattan, mourning my fate. It doesn't matter that I've made lots of records in the past. All that matters is I can't get one kick drum right. And all I can think about is my career's over and I'm going to have to become a fries chef at McDonalds." - Moby (pg 63, Future Music 84, July 1999)
The New Criterion - They're the only politically conservative magazine that pens clever arguments, and in a verbose style like The New Yorker. Their arts critiques are rooted in a love of classic periods like Romanticism and Renaissance.
Jacobin - A pro-socialism/communism magazine with beautiful design and often convincing arguments.
Lapham's Quarterly - A history magazine that ties past events to current ones; often super interesting.
The Hedgehog Review - Very educational, focused on a specific topic each issue.
Inference Review - New and online-only, but full of brilliant content from the likes of Noam Chomsky, and generally leaders of respective fields. Side note: "Trump and the Trumpists" (Vol 3 Issue 1) was the most insightful, unbiased and accurate explanation of Trump voters I had ever read.
The Economist, 2600 and, specifically when I fly, I like buying some of the history magazines that are usually in the airport bookstores, but the name of the magazines escapes me right now.
It used to be Newsweek India edition. Then they went no-print and when they came back and started printing again they never resumed printing for India. The US edition would be a lot costlier for me after currency conversion and a lot more after shipping is added. Also, I might not be able to connect much.
The ones I read regularly are from India and most of HNers might not have heard about the.
Caravan (www.caravanmagazine.in) - pretty good long form pieces. Then there's a Hindi literary magazine - Hans (https://www.hanshindimagazine.in - it's a Hindi website with an option to translate the links I reckon). And, Fountain Ink - http://fountainink.in. They usually pick very interesting subjects, subjects that other media establishments either miss or just give less than a cursory look.
Just like books, I never had any success with e-newspapers and e-magazines. Distraction is just one worry. Though I manage to read some long form articles on the web every month or so.
Guitar Player (http://www.guitarplayer.com) is the only print magazine I regularly read anymore. Though I did buy the first issue of the Omni magazine reboot last night!
The Atlantic, The New Criterion, Commentary, the UK edition of Wired, and (not a magazine, but like it, for me) the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal.
My favorite as well. I don't have time to get through the whole thing every week but I do feel much better informed after reading it and it allows me to spare the vicious contempt that U.S. cable news has.
"I'd done a mix here and I put it on headphones. Then I thought, just for fun I'd put on [The Prodigy's] The Fat Of The Land. It sounded a million times better so I got very depressed.... When you're working by yourself you can lose objectivity so quickly and molehills become mountains. I'll be working on a song and if I can't get the kick drum to sound right I'll think I'm a failure and walk around Manhattan, mourning my fate. It doesn't matter that I've made lots of records in the past. All that matters is I can't get one kick drum right. And all I can think about is my career's over and I'm going to have to become a fries chef at McDonalds." - Moby (pg 63, Future Music 84, July 1999)