"A One-Stop Digest of What Was Happening in Music"

"What's left are specialist titles, small operations surviving on small circulations and magazines that concentrate largely on the past. The latter suggests that the only people who still buy music titles in quantity are old enough to remember the music press at its height."

Alexis Petridis at The Irish Times writes that the end of Q magazine "seems to signal the final passing of the music press as we once knew it."