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02-19-2008, 03:10 PM
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Mailboxes and newsstands the world over, bid a fond farewell to No Depression (http://www.nodepression.net/), the long-running alt-country magazine named after the Carter Family tune. It was announced today via a press release and the magazine's website (http://www.nodepression.net/blogs/letter/) that after the publication of the May-June issue-- the magazine's 75th-- No Depression will cease to exist as a print magazine.
In a note printed in the March-April issue and online, publishers Grant Alden, Peter Blackstock, and Kyla Fairchild promised to expand their online coverage in the months to come, though that will "in no way replace the print edition." They cited decreased advertising revenue (largely due to record labels' shrinking advertising budgets) as well as rising printing and mailing costs as reasons for the decision to shut down the magazine.
Launched in September 1995 with a relatively fresh-faced Son Volt on its cover (http://www.nodepression.net/issues/nd01/index.html), No Depression began as a quarterly magazine and turned bi-monthly a year after its inception. Spotlighting the finest in off-the-beaten-path roots music, the magazine helped further the careers of Wilco, Whiskeytown and Ryan Adams, the Drive-By Truckers, Gillian Welch, and many others.
A number of anthologies of the magazine's best bits have been published, and in 2005, No Depression celebrated its tenth anniversary (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/35115-ino-depressioni-celebrates-its-10th-anniversary) with a series of concerts featuring such notables as Sufjan Stevens, Solomon Burke, and Jon Langford and Sally Timms of the Mekons.
But wherever there's a busted-up mandolin sitting in a corner of a bar somewhere, the spirit of No Depression lives on.
The full text of the publishers' note is printed below. [MORE...] (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/48806-ino-depressioni-to-end-print-publication)
http://assets3.pitchforkmedia.com/images/link-arrow.gif?1200372477Video: Uncle Tupelo: No Depression (Carter family cover, live in Chicago 1992) [originally from the No Depression LP]
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Mailboxes and newsstands the world over, bid a fond farewell to No Depression (http://www.nodepression.net/), the long-running alt-country magazine named after the Carter Family tune. It was announced today via a press release and the magazine's website (http://www.nodepression.net/blogs/letter/) that after the publication of the May-June issue-- the magazine's 75th-- No Depression will cease to exist as a print magazine.
In a note printed in the March-April issue and online, publishers Grant Alden, Peter Blackstock, and Kyla Fairchild promised to expand their online coverage in the months to come, though that will "in no way replace the print edition." They cited decreased advertising revenue (largely due to record labels' shrinking advertising budgets) as well as rising printing and mailing costs as reasons for the decision to shut down the magazine.
Launched in September 1995 with a relatively fresh-faced Son Volt on its cover (http://www.nodepression.net/issues/nd01/index.html), No Depression began as a quarterly magazine and turned bi-monthly a year after its inception. Spotlighting the finest in off-the-beaten-path roots music, the magazine helped further the careers of Wilco, Whiskeytown and Ryan Adams, the Drive-By Truckers, Gillian Welch, and many others.
A number of anthologies of the magazine's best bits have been published, and in 2005, No Depression celebrated its tenth anniversary (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/35115-ino-depressioni-celebrates-its-10th-anniversary) with a series of concerts featuring such notables as Sufjan Stevens, Solomon Burke, and Jon Langford and Sally Timms of the Mekons.
But wherever there's a busted-up mandolin sitting in a corner of a bar somewhere, the spirit of No Depression lives on.
The full text of the publishers' note is printed below. [MORE...] (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/48806-ino-depressioni-to-end-print-publication)
http://assets3.pitchforkmedia.com/images/link-arrow.gif?1200372477Video: Uncle Tupelo: No Depression (Carter family cover, live in Chicago 1992) [originally from the No Depression LP]
http://feeds.pitchforkmedia.com/~f/pitchfork/today?i=bb7hpuE</img> (http://feeds.pitchforkmedia.com/~f/pitchfork/today?a=bb7hpuE)
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