SOUNDS was a German monthly magazine from Munich. Started in 1966 mainly as a free jazz magazine, some years later switched over to progressive rock. In 1978/79 the magazine was a center point of a "new German wave". In 1983 the new owner Jürg Marquard merged two of his magazines, SOUNDS and MUSIKEXPRESS, into new one – MUSIKEXPRESS/SOUNDS. Several people from SOUNDS staff moved to the magazine SPEX.