Apparently not.
Magazines have little to no effect on sales n stuff in my experience.
As much as I love to read, these days, people judge with their ears. Why listen to a review when you can pop online and actually hear the music with your own ears and make a judgement.

And DJ lists really suck.
Techno is marginalised is most of the mainstream Dj mags.

Bring back Wax, it was the only decent dance mag there was.