RIP No Depression, TVT Records
It's time to toss a couple more corpses on the music industry fire. First, the alt-country mag No Depression, which has announced that it will cease publishing after its next issue and become a web-only publication. The usual suspects catch the blame—declining ad revenue and outlets, general music industry woes—though the magazine insists its audience is still there: "What makes this especially painful and particularly frustrating is that our readership has not significantly declined, our newsstand sell-through remains among the best in our portion of the industry, and our passion for and pleasure in the music has in no way diminished. We still have shelves full of first-rate music we'd love to tell you about," say publishers Grant Alden, Peter Blackstock and Kyla Fairchild. They'll just have to do it online now.