of all the good, bad, fucked up, wonderful, bizarrely strange and utterly pedestrian things to happen in the world and to me of late, none have drawn me to my keyboard to tell you about them...
until today. what stirred me from my torpor this evening was finding out about the impending demise of No Depression magazine, a publication that I can credit with fostering and expanding my love not only of alt.country music (whatever that is) but of music in general, turning me on to so many of my favorite artists and truly educating me about the history and culture of music in this country. While I've always been one to embrace the ascendancy of digital culture, downloadable music, music review websites and mp3blogs, it pains me to see my favorite independent ink and pulp pubs becoming less and less viable. The loss of intelligent, thoughtful and caring voices like No Depression and the late Punk Planet are a bitter downside to all the wonderful things that this series of tubes does for us.
Cheers, ND, and thanks for the words and the music.
Let's all improve our paper collections and make it a mission to keep McSweeney's , The Believer, Giant Robot, High Fructose, Juxtapoz and whatever other independent magazines are still out there making paper interesting alive, shall we?
until today. what stirred me from my torpor this evening was finding out about the impending demise of No Depression magazine, a publication that I can credit with fostering and expanding my love not only of alt.country music (whatever that is) but of music in general, turning me on to so many of my favorite artists and truly educating me about the history and culture of music in this country. While I've always been one to embrace the ascendancy of digital culture, downloadable music, music review websites and mp3blogs, it pains me to see my favorite independent ink and pulp pubs becoming less and less viable. The loss of intelligent, thoughtful and caring voices like No Depression and the late Punk Planet are a bitter downside to all the wonderful things that this series of tubes does for us.
Cheers, ND, and thanks for the words and the music.
Let's all improve our paper collections and make it a mission to keep McSweeney's , The Believer, Giant Robot, High Fructose, Juxtapoz and whatever other independent magazines are still out there making paper interesting alive, shall we?
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