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| From | "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Sad news about No Depression |
| Date | Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:13:41 -0500 |
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That's true ... and the travails of the very fine "Amplifier" magazine have
been chronicled in detail here.
It's tough times for publishing all around. The market's being subdivided
and subdivided and then undermined by the Web.
It's not a criticism of "No Depression." It's an acknowledgment of the
changing landscape.
JLM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Chalfen" <chalfen@pobox.upenn.edu>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: Sad news about No Depression
> John Micek wrote:
>>I'm not sure how that makes Stewart part of the problem, exactly.
>>I think part of the problem with a magazine like ND is that it's so
>>niche-y that it probably has a limited life-span. I'd gotten the
>>sense in the last few years that the air had kind of gone out of
>>alt.country/ND music. I'm not sure who's still pushing the boundaries
>>of the genre. There's only so much choir-preaching you can do before
>>you run out of new converts, after all.
>>And, as a guy who works full-time in the media biz (newspapers), it
>>really is mutate or die out there.
>
> One could say the same things about power pop. Or any of a number of
> niche genres in stasis, for that matter.
>
> Andrew
>
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