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