No Depression no more
This is a sad day for music lovers:
NO DEPRESSION MAGAZINE TO CEASE PUBLISHING AFTER MAY-JUNE ISSUE
No Depression, the bimonthly magazine covering a broad range of American roots music since 1995, will bring to an end its print publication with its 75th issue in May-June 2008. Plans to expand the publication’s website (www.nodepression.net) with
additional content will move forward, though it will in no way replace the print edition.</em>
Back in the early days of the alt-country movement, back when listening to country music was something only rednecks and stoners did, No Depression profiled the early days of country music’s latest rebirth, long before Wilco, Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss were household names. They named Texas mojo man Alejandro Escovedo “Artist of the Decade” in 1998, which led to me interviewing him for Pop Culture Press. Declining ad revenues from record labels forced the magazine to close, another victim of the “downloading music don’t hurt nobody” culture. They will be missed.
