In its January 26 issue of this year, Paste Magazine posed an interesting question: is indie dead? We're sad to report that the magazine couldn't stick around to find out. Paste has died. It's a sad day for music journalism fans.
Now, the owners of the monthly have shut down their internationally-distributed magazine and laid off the entire staff -- all 11 of them -- though they vowed to continue publishing online."We're still in business, we're just putting the print magazine on hiatus," editor Josh Jackson told the AJC Wednesday. "We had to basically lay off the entire staff," he added.
Paste was nominated for two National Magazine Awards in 2008 and 2009, and was highly praised by critics and leaders during its 8-year run.
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Hmm, I dunno. I feel bad for the writers, but then again, I also kinda thought their opinions about records sounded like they were being written to be the blurb on the little sticker they put on the CDs at Borders or wherever. I might be biased, though, because they put together a pretty great three-day day party at SXSW a couple of years ago and put it in the absolute worst venue possible and I probably just have some leftover resentment from that. Well, that and they had BLOGGER CAGES, which sadly were not ironic cages to put people who were caught blogging during the shows! Outrageous!
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