There’s Plenty Of Depression For Alt-Country Fans These Days
After 75 issues, No Depression shut down its print magazine and shifted to a “daily Web site” model in October 2008. However, apparently there’s not quite enough money in Internet publishing to pay writers, etc., so the site is changing again, this time to some sort of blog/social networking/message board combination with contributions from the previous staff. The site hadn’t managed to work out kinks in content and technology since its relaunch, but I assumed that they would eventually figure things out and provide the generally quality coverage that the magazine delivered on, so the shutdown is unfortunate (although not much of a surprise). The upside: If you’re a single Gillian Welch fan seeking same, you have somewhere more narrowly targeted to go. [No Depression]
