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{{Infobox magazine
| title = CREEM
| logo = Creem logo.png
| image_file = Creem December 1977 Grace Slick.jpg
| image_caption = December 1977 cover featuring [[Grace Slick]]
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| category = [[Music magazine]]
| publisher = CREEM Magazine, LLC
| firstdate = {{start date|1969|3}}
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| country = United States
| based = [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
| website = https://www.creem.com/
| issn = 0011-1147
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'''''Creem''''' (often stylized in [[all caps]]) is an American rock [[music magazine]] and entertainment company, founded in [[Detroit]], whose initial print run lasted from 1969 to 1989. It was first published in March 1969 by Barry Kramer and founding editor Tony Reay. Influential critic [[Lester Bangs]] served as the magazine's editor from 1971 to 1976. It suspended production in 1989 but attained a short-lived renaissance in the early 1990s as a tabloid. In June 2022, ''Creem'' was relaunched as a digital archive, website, weekly newsletter, and quarterly print edition.<ref name=McCollum>{{cite news |first=Brian |last=McCollum |url=https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2022/06/01/creem-magazine-relaunch-rock-archives/9997059002/ |title=Creem magazine, Detroit-born rock bible, makes big return with digital archive, print edition |work=Detroit Free Press |date=June 1, 2022 |access-date=June 1, 2022}}</ref>

The magazine is noted for having been an early champion of various [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]], [[punk rock]], [[new wave music|new wave]] and [[alternative rock|alternative]] bands, especially bands based in Detroit. The term "punk rock" was coined in the May 1971 issue of ''Creem,'' in [[Dave Marsh]]'s ''Looney Tunes'' column about [[? and the Mysterians]]. That same issue is sometimes credited with having originated the term "heavy metal" as well;<ref>{{cite web |title=CREEM AT 50: HOW GONZO ROCK MAGAZINE SPURRED HEAVY METAL'S POPULARITY |url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/creem-50-how-gonzo-rock-magazine-spurred-heavy-metals-popularity |work=Revolver |date=October 12, 2020}}</ref> in fact, the term had been used earlier, though ''Creem'' did help to popularize the term throughout the 1970s.