http://www.punkplanet.com/taxonomy/term/737/0 en http://www.punkplanet.com/sinker/blog/yes_depression <p>Today's announcement that No Depression magazine is folding up shop after the publication of their next issue is dredging up a lot of painful old memories for me. Last year felt like a bloodbath for independent publishers and the few that were able to hang on through it, I hoped would be able to persevere forever, defiant against what seemed like an inevitability. </p> <p>But now No Depression, a magazine that I've always felt a kinship towards, has bent against the crosswinds that blew Punk Planet down as well. While No Depression didn't have a distributor bankruptcy to speed the downturn like we did, they still came up across the difficulties of being a publication supported in large part by the ads of record labels during a time when record labels are struggling on their own. As a result, the magazine saw its advertiser base dwindle:</p> <p><a href="http://www.punkplanet.com/sinker/blog/yes_depression">read more</a></p> http://www.punkplanet.com/sinker/blog/yes_depression#comment alt-country independent culture zines Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:52:54 -0500 Sinker 3871 at http://www.punkplanet.com