Just got the news via stereogum. Shocking. If I were Bill Gates...hope someone steps in. I can't bear the thought...

I can't completely explain what this magazine has meant to me since my first issue (Blue Mountain cover). I haven't always agreed with certain decisions in content and theme, but I know I regret the year I didn't renew my subscription (and any issues I've missed due to this mistake). All I know is that this magazine always seemed more "real" than any other out there. I respect the style and substance, even when it didn't jive with me personally. I guess all good things do come to an end, and I accept that, and I'm sorry for that.

No Depression was more than a magazine. It is a community. You will be sorely missed.

Sad news. Picked up first copy in old Tower Recirds Trafalgar Square London in 1997 (Whiskeytown cover) got every one I could since which quite a lot...loved the magazine and it helped inspire a lot of americana fans over here...we will miss you...

No one says it better than the great Alejandro Escovedo: "Thirteen years such a long, long time, thirteen years, was it a waste of time...thirteen years".
I loved the magazine, the style, the wit, the writers, the music, the artists.
I need a No Depression t-shirt to cheer me up.
Good luck Peter & Grant.

omg, i can't believe what i'm reading. i've been a subscriber for many years and am always thrilled when i see ND in my mail box. have you given thought to other ways to keep it going? forget advertising, just charge us higher prices for subs? smaller mag will reduce the cost to publish and make us pay for all your hard work. i know i would. say it isn't so guys.

bummer. i wish i could say that i saw this coming. i've been a subscriber since issue 5 if i recall correctly. i'm only missing 3 of the issues in my collection.

since my subscription is paid through sept/oct of 2009, can i make one plug and say that i would be sorely disappointed to be offered a subscription to Paste or Rolling Stone? please please please not either one of these magazines!!! :(

This is a truly sad day. No Dep was my roots music bible and it's absence will leave a big ol hole in my musical heart. I been a subcriber since 1996 and along with Bluegrass Unlimited and Relix, ND was my Holy Trinity of music mags that covered "The Real Thing." I suppose this is my
version of "Tear Stained
Eye". What a bummer. Good luck to Peter, Grant, and Kyla in your future plans and thanks for the memories.

Ugh. A true and painful stab directly to the heart. Jon Dee Graham once said to me that life's goal should be to be "useful in this world." You have all been incredibly useful. There is no vocabulary to thank you enough.

I don't accept this. Too hard.

To say it's a sad day is an understatement. The contribution to the industry is a tattoo worn proudly by those involved I hope. Lord knows us simple fans appreciated the work.

This is incredibly sad news. Thanks for such a great run.

p.s. I've got a two-year subscription and I hope you don't hand us over to Paste...rhymes with "waste" for a reason.

No, No Depression. That is truly depressing. My anticipation of your arrival and information will be missed.

Is it April 1st? I wish it was. Feels like I lost a friend. Your magazine was a gateway for me. I'm not an internet diehard - I like the smell of paper and glue, the inkstains on fingers. Finding new music will now be a more difficult undertaking.

not sure if you could swing it, but i recall peter having a connection to emusic. can you figure out a way to make emusic a bridge to your subscriber base and have the ND staff join the 17 dots content? i'm just sayin'...

Please don't go....Pleeeeezzzz!!

I'm in Shock! I just re-subscribed for 3 more years cause I LOVE & believe in you guys! I fear what will replace you! I think all that fall in your shadow don't deserve your faithful subscribers! There IS Depression now!

Thank you all for doing your best. I have learned so much about life and music through your magazine and looked forward to every issue.

You will be deeply missed.

This is sad. If you can't find a tasteful way to make good on the subscriptions that is OK. If there is any money left over throw a good party with it. Farewell.

I have been using ND as my 'bridge' to the discovery of new music, so this is very sad news. I hope the website can help fill the huge gap that the loss of the magazine will leave.

That is a sad thing, Peter. I lament the fact that I came upon the magazine late in its lifecycle. I can honestly say that it is the best thing going in Music Journalism and I truly regret that the swift downfall of the industry has precipitated your shutting down of the magazine. You needn't worry about sending me some other magazine, it won't replace ND for me and I got my money's worth in the first issue I received.

While I have always used a variety of resources to keep myself "plugged-in" to music, none has stayed with me longer or been as consistent as No Depression. After almost 7 years of subscription I appreciated the mag even more recently as a guide to finding new music via digital download stores.

There's a lot of highway out there and you were my map.

Say it ain't so.

W.

Damn. This is pretty depressing. I'll be buying some of the back issues from before I knew you guys existed and a shirt.

I'm truly sorry to read about this. As others have said, ND helped me find alot of new music and artists that I may have never heard of or listened to if it wasn't for you folks.

Many thanks for all you've done and best wishes to all the folks at ND!

This really really sucks. I've been a subscriber for just over a year (my first was the Old Crow cover), and I proudly say that No Depression helped me to reconnect with my country roots. I wanted to be between this magazine's covers one day, either as a writer or an artist, but it looks like that won't be happening now. This is so sad. I love your magazine, I'm ordering a shirt right now.

Such sad news. It's always a treat to see the new issue waiting in my mailbox. I remember buying issue #1 at Euclid Records in St. Louis, where Jeff Tweedy once worked. I also have the other 72 issues and have enjoyed them all. Thanks and good luck in the future.

I first picked up a few copies of No Depression in Austin, Tx's Lubbock Or Leave It while on a visit from South Africa in 1998, subscribed almost immediately and have loved you guys from a distance ever since. I'll miss you.

I stopped buying the magazine when you named A. Escovedo the artist of the decade back in '98. I'm amazed you lasted this long after that boneheaded move...

Sad news indeed. Thanks for your efforts over the years in providing us across the Pond with first-hand information about the music we like. I hope some angels will hear you.

Herve, www.acousticinPAris.com

Stunned to read this on another message board. I'm not a subscriber but would always make as many trips as necessary to my local Borders to pick up the latest copy. ND is (can't bring myself to say was) undoubtedly the best written outlet for Americana (whatever that is), and I say that as a writer for www.americana-uk.com. I can only hope that somebody comes out of the woodwork to avert what I feel entirely justified in calling a disaster for the music that we call love.

I've just heard the news and I'm sorry it has come to this. My thanks to all the staff who put the magazine together and I hope an angel appears. I'm not sure about getting another magazine for the balance of my subscription - I live in Scotland and don't know all the US stuff - maybe a T shirt and stickers instead and we can stay together online!!

This is very sad indeed, the only magazine worth subscribing to is to be no more. I live in Norway and like many of my fellow Norwegians possess a profound interest in and love for so much of the music No Depression concerns itself with. I only wish more people with this affinity subscribed to ND, that might have saved the best publication geared towards music that ever saw the light of day. My sincere thanks to the people working with ND and best of luck to y'all!

Well, we all knew the music bizz was in trouble. Here's another example, and another loss. While the Digital Brave New World has simplified access to music, it has also devalued and destroyed what it originally pointed to . . . like an interstate running into a wilderness area.

With the demise of "No Depression" we are left with: depression.

Whatever happens guys, don't stop thinking of 17 impossible things before breakfast. Let's keep in touch and make something new come out of this.

_Peter

I feel like I just learned of the sudden death of a good friend. ND has been a big part of my life for the last dozen years. Dozens of artists came to my attention through your pages, and my life is much richer as a result. Nothing lasts forever, but I never thought of a world without No Depression. Thanks, Peter, Grant and Kyla.

I can't believe this. Really, I can't tell you how much this publication meant to me from when I first learned of it in '98. I'd pay double the price, but I know, that won't save your problems.

Thanks for all those years. And good luck to whatever you'll do next. For me, music will never be the same without you.

Thinking (possibly) a little more rationally about this now I wonder what it would take financially to keep the magazine going? I know you'll have thought through all this and decided it wasn't an option but, for example, how much would the cover price have to be? I pay $4.95 a copy here in the UK in Borders and am happy to do so. Would people pay the equivalent $10 in the US? Would it make a difference if they did?

This is very sad indeed - ND was a community, the indie/Americana Bible. In regards to my own on-line column, the superb writing in ND has given me a template (not to mention so much joy) to work from for examples in great music journalism. It will be hard not to feel that print edition in my hands every two months, but what a great ride...
Mick Polich

I feel like I've just lost a close friend. I read every issue but didn't keep them. No Depression was too good to not share with others.

what a drag to hear that my favorite mag is coming to an end. my thanks to you for exposing me to some of the best music in the world.

This is such heartbreaking news. Awful. Thank you all so much for the years of hard work, and for introducing so many of us to some of the best music in America. I hope that your legacy will live on in some way.
All best,
Dan Cepeda

KYLA,GRANT, & PETER~ and especially Kyla, who has been a champion and so kind to me, and who has fed and sheltered me, and my band, and has been generous in sharing her time, effort and thoughts with me, I am so sorry to hear this news.
Thanks for all of your hard work and diligence, hard rock miners working on a building. To you, to readers and fans, don't lose heart, goodness, like endeavour, cannot be exhausted or diminished, but changes only in discernment. The value of your days and time will be increased with appreciation.
Best to you all, in the next things. Kyla, I was just thinking about you; would love to hear from you.
Blessings on the kids.
much love, janas

Depressed.

Nothing less than a disaster for lovers of North American roots music and the artists it supports. I would gladly pay twice the current subscription rate if that would help to keep you going...

This is awful news. I have been buying this magazine regularly at what claims to be the oldest 'bricks and mortar' record shop in the world in Cardiff, Wales. This shop is itself holding on under threat of closure. You will be sorely missed.

No Depression always made me happy, not only because it has been one of the greatest American magazines (and not just greatest music magazine, but one of the greatest magazines of any kind), and not only because it actually got better over the years, but also because it was the historical successor in many ways to Seattle's The Rocket, and Grant's wonderful long tenure at that publication. And also because it kept showcasing the graphic design and illustration work of such Rocket alumni as Art Chantry, Jesse Reyes, Stan Shaw, and many others, not least among them Grant himself. Great work you guys. Thanks for showing us all how it can be done. --Bob Newman

This is terrible news, as No Depression has practically cornered the market on good writing about such a broad swath of great American music.

Peter and Grant, your mag has been a real musical education, and absolutely a bright spot in my pop-culture reading life. I can't tell you how many artists I've been turned on to because of your work, and how much the writing in ND has inspired my own writing.

Here's hoping that the mag will be saved: Isn't there a recording-industry Sugar Daddy or Sugar Mama who might pony up some funding to keep ND alive (w/o interfering with the editorial independence)?

Alternately, as the above post suggested, many of us would be happy to pay a higher subscription price to keep the mag going.

Here's hoping ...

This is so sad. From the first issue I read, I've always felt No Depression was a magazine made just for me, the perfect magazine. What you chose to cover, and the way you covered it (including the long articles) was just right. I will miss it terribly. (If you decide to relaunch as a non-profit (sort of like Oxford-American?) I will contribute as many dollars as I can.
Good luck, what a great job you did.

"Barring the intercession of unknown angels"

Miracles can happen. Look at The Oxford American. Out of biz twice and now facing an embezzlement incident.

Maybe?

Oh man, what sad news...

Oh God, how will I survive? Between N D and the annual Oxford Music Issue I bathe in the excellent music journalism. Paste will never suffice, though I support it, too. I would suggest the Academy of Country Music Journal as the worthy recipent of your subscriber base...perhaps they will benefit from the interest. I, too like many have nearly every issue since I first found the magazine with issue three. I curse myself for not having written the articles I wqanted to about my friends that play earlier. I am so sad and you will be sorely missed by so many of us who rely on your good taste and the spotlight provided to so many great musicians. Other suggestions: Sing Out, Performing Songwriter, Dirty Linen

Words fail me (altho they never failed you). Every other comment says it: ND is the portal to the only music I care about. Not to mention, it reacquainted me with McLeese, who I knew back in Holy Wheaton when I hung out at his record store instead of having a life. Pay more? You bet.

Say it ain't so! I haven't been this disappointed since Frets Magazine went under, or the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 6th times the Wittenburg Door went out of business.

If it really has to be this way, I guess I understand.

I will say that, strangely (and, ironically, given the letter from the editors above), my favorite part of getting No Depression was reading the ads.

Even though I know you're disappointed and that this is a big blow for you, I want to encourage you by thanking you for helping to introduce younger listeners to great rock, country, folk, bluegrass and everything in between, even alt.country (whatever that is!).

I've been involved in music for more than twenty years now, both as a performer in my own band, The Faded Lovers, as a DJ, and just as an avid fan and collecter.

But even after all of that, I never failed to learn something from each issue and, every month, I discovered at least one or two great new artists through your magazine.

Thanks a lot for striking a blow for real music with real lyrics, played by real musicians.

I will miss you.

I heartily agree with Maria, Glenn and all the others who've written how they'd willingly pay a higher subscription fee for an advertising-free version of N.D. It might be tough, budget-wise, but I, for one, could probably swing $100/year for said subscription. And I'm no Gates or Trump or Oprah, but where is it written you guys can ONLY accept advertising from the pinheads in the recording industry??? Whenever I crack open a copy of Rolling Stone, I see ads for Ford, Coca-Cola, Absolut and several million talentless clothing designers, but NEVER anything from Universal, Sony/BMG, Warner Music or their ilk. (I also don't want a replacement magazine in lieu of my already-paid-for N.D. subscription, as there IS NO REPLACEMENT for N.D. Just send me what remains of my subscription fee in an assortment of promo CDs and/or No Depression clothing, size XXL, please.)

Wow. This will have a huge impact on the alt-country business.

This is just another chapter in the major labels taking over the music business and using advertising revenue models like last.fm. This is where the advertisers see the future.

The music business is nothing about art or culture anymore. It's all about American Idol and the next big thing.

Like everyone else, I'm can't tell you how sad I am to hear this. I can't imagine how upsetting it must be for you, Peter and Grant. Thank you for turning me on to so many wonderful bands over the years. Here's wishing you all nothing but the best.

Whiskey tango foxtrot?

I hope those angels show up soon. Thanks for all the great articles, editorials and reviews. "No Depression" has been consistently excellent and stands among the best in music journalism. Unbelievable - I'm simply stunned.

I have (and still do sometimes) read Paste, Mojo, and other "music" mags and none have ever stood up to No Depression. N.D. really championed the music and that was good and real and genuine. Not whatever the big record labels told them was or should be popular.
N.D. does profiles on regional artists (Including Iowa's own Kelly Pardekooper), has extensive albums reviews, and always has great in depth articles concerning the musicians its fans enjoy.
Although in started as an Uncle Tupelo fanzine (kinda) it grew to represent a whole area of music which is sorely under represented today. Now maybe thats a good thing, we dont want every idiot out there listening to OKOM. We all know what show can be like with the wrong fanbase present. Anways enough ramblin, No Depression you will be sorely missed....
Josh
p.s. I would never lament the loss of Paste or Spin or GASP! Rolling Stone like the loss of N.D.

Sad as I am to see ND fold, I don't think you can blame the record companies. They themselves are well on the road to extinction, as the age-old means of distributing music are changing rapidly. Thanks to the internet, record companies are no longer needed to record, market and distribute music. They're losing money, and no longer have the means to promote artists in small to medium publications. We're in the middle of a revolution. I think that new models for the selling of music will continue to emerge. Hopefully, when everything shakes out No Depression or some latter-day equivalent will be there to tell us what we should be listening to. Don't be surprised, though, if this new publication is an on-line one.

Man, what a drag...

always got ND off the newstand... it's a sad day. Thanks so much for what you've accomplished!

Oh, that's really sad! I have every issue, and I still read the old ones every now and then. I used to subscribe to many music magazines, but over the last several years, No Depression has been the only one worth reading. Thanks for everything!

I've been a subscriber for just one year so i'm very sorry to see that something I was coming to rely upon for opening my ears as well as my eyes is to cease publication. As a single subscriber there isn't much I can do but if all of us subscribers got together to donate a nominal amount could we keep the publication going or are we simply postponing the inevitable.

"May the wind take your troubles away"

Sad day indeed.

Most likely No Depression's folding is due to the current economic realities and distribution uncertainties in the record business. But another factor is that Americana/alt country never had a band that broke huge and opened the floodgates like Nirvana did for the alternative nation. Probably the biggest artists to break out during No Depression's run were Wilco (who quickly shed and dismissed the "alt country" tag) and Lucinda Williams (whose last few records failed to capitalize on the stunning Car Wheels). Perhaps one Nirvana would have brought more hype and sales, therefore more readers and ads.

But back to the beginning of ND - those that followed Uncle Tupelo and then eagerly awaited the debut Son Volt and Wilco discs believed something very special was brewing in 1994/1995. That first Son Volt record seemed to herald a natual heir to The Band's americana throne. Unfortunately Son Volt and Farrar were never able to recpature the magic of Trace, whose brilliance is undimmed 13 years later.

Read more here:

http://teenkicks.blogspot.com/

I could hardly resist the temptation to read a whole issue in a day or two. It was always a long wait until a new one arrived. Thanks for introducing me to so many great musicians and writers and add me to the list of folks who would pay double for their subscription.
Thank you doesn't seem like enough. Best of luck.

What a piece of bad news!!!

I have not yet found an online source of information about new music that is as good as magazines like ND. Being aware of new releases is going to be far more difficult now. Certainly artists on tiny labels (or nothing but a mySpace page) are going to fall off the radar for me, I just don't have the time to surf the web looking for good music.

As a subscriber for around nine years this is a really sad day.

Those big electric guitars are big business yet the acoustic guitar still thrives...wish ND could do the same! If anything changes plz bring back that top album chart with each issue.

This is very sad, especially considering that No Depression is the only publication out there dedicated to covering the Americana music scene as its sole purpose. It makes me think that the 'scene' is hurting, and I see other evidence that it is. As a country music fan in particular, we need all the advocates in the intelligent press that we can get, or else the genre risks being seen by the wider world as simply whatever Nashville (which still sucks) is selling.

I wish everyone well and thanks for the great stories. I hope they can be continued on this website.

-Stephanie

This is truly sad and shocking news. You all filled such a big niche in my and many other listeners lives. The writing was insightful, peeling into the deeper layers of the genres and artists you featured. I am forever grateful for your dedication and for what must have been a sometimes difficult labor of love. Many thanks and keep doing what you obviously loved to do and were very, very good at.

oh s&^%! something I looked forward to. so make it electronic .

Goddamn, I'm gonna miss this magazine. Nothing else compares.
Sometimes evolution sucks.

Brian in Seattle

I'm very sorry to hear this. I've been a subscriber since the late 90s. I too enjoyed the ads as much as anything else in the magazine. Thanks for turning me on to such great music over the years.

Dan in Portland, OR

Just heard the story on NPR. So sad to hear and to read on the site the deeper ramifications. I'll miss you guys, for sure. And, just for the record, the ads in this mag worked better on me than any other magazine I've ever subscribed to. I truly paid attention to the artists that were featured, checked them out, and bought their music as a result. I love this niche we share, and will miss your helping to fill it.

Just heard the news on NPR and am very sad. I have loved the magazine and given it as a gift to friends. I'm also in the magazine business and I know how tough it is right now, but I thought a niche magazine with loyal readership would survive. Wish you all the best. I'll miss you in the mailbox every two months.

Just read the news on Aquarium Drunkard. This is terrible. I remember picking up my first issue of ND (with the Bad Livers on the cover) at Green Records in Eugene, ORE. Why do I even remember what issue I bought first, and where? Simple, this rag has been my lifeline to music that means the most to me. I have been a subscriber non-stop since issue #6. I'm really gonna miss this magazine and the in depth articles and reviews. THANK YOU to everyone associated with ND.

I am very sorry to learn about ND I have really enjoyed your magazine and would be willing to pay more to keep ND in circulation.

THE best print magazines on American music. ever. period. You will be missed.
Glad I have all my back issues.... Good luck guys!

-Drew

My first issue was bought in Dallas and I started my blog modeled in small part on the ND spirit of great music. American music. Music that smelled of sweat, earth and booze. "Progress" sometimes has a sorrowful price. Adios amigos. You will be missed...

Oh man, what everyone else said.... sad, sad, sad.... Thanks to the ND crew for all the great reading and thinking over the years. Thanks for introducing me to artists I would never have heard otherwise. Here's hoping for angels...

Andy in Toronto

Big MegaMillions drawing tomorrow night. I'm buying a few extra tickets. If things pan out, you guys will be right back at it. Seriously, though, the horrible depression that you've wrought with the announcement is a wonderful testament to the joy that you have delivered over the years. You should be proud of your efforts. Thank you.

In 2003, I was lamenting to a friend that great music was dead. He gave me a subscription card to ND, and I tried it. My music life was resurrected! What I love about ND is that I can hear the music as I am reading about it. Thank you for all you have done. Do it again if you can. Godspeed.

Dear Friends,
I've been with you guys for about 10 years and I'll miss you VERY much as I write this I'm listening to Son Volt. There have been few magazines in my 50 years that come close to NO DEPRESION. I'm not sure what I'll do to fill this void. Thanks for a great run.
The last issue should be renamed MAJOR DEPRISION.

All I can say at the moment is "this sucks" but, life moves on. I've enjoyed your magazine for the past few years being a subscriber and always got excited when it arrived in my mailbox. Many issues were read cover to cover. I hope that you all will keep the website up to date and continue to write.

I've been subscribing to your magazine for just about 10 years. Can't tell you how many artists I have discovered thanks to you. Will miss the in-depth music journalism that seems to exist nowhere else. Good luck in your future endeavors and thanks for the work you put into this one.

I am sad to learn that I will soon no longer feel the excitement of finding the latest ND in my mail box. But let's consider some options... have you looked at a fee-based web publication? This new model may enable you to continue the dream while offering some added features such as music clips, links to lyrics and artists websites etc. I know I would gladly convert my annual print subscription fee for access to a web resource similar to the printed ND.

Speaking of my subscription... please do not sign me up for some alternate publication. Donate the balance of my subscription to the charity of your choice...

Best regards and thanks for sharing your knowledge and love for the music.

-Matt (Reston, VA)

I was sad (ironic for a publication titled "No Depression" to elicit these feelings) to learn of the impending end of what I feel is the best written coverage of Americana and roots music. The in-depth interviews and reviews of new and emerging artists will be sorely missed. Best of luck and perhaps an "angel" may yet save the day.
Michael

What a pity, and I only recently learned of the existence of this magazine.

I discovered all my favorite alt-country artists through your magazine. Thank you for your commitment.

Man, I'd pay twice the current subscription rate to keep the ND up and running. Or, perhaps have it come out quarterly? My only regret is Neko Case never got a cover story.

Thanks ND, for great journalism and introducing me to some life-changing music.

Thanks for all your hard work putting together a great magazine.

I'm so sad and sorry. Yours was a great magazines, well written and interesting with every issue. You will be missed.

Grant, Peter and Kyla:

Thank you for all the music. My wife and daughter heard the NPR report last night and broke the news gently to me. For 8 years, you have be my musical guide -- leading me to many musicians I would never have listen to --

Please don't give up on us readers. I will be there for 10,000 more words on Miss Corhshucks.

A poster version of the Johnny Cash November-December 2002 cover hangs over my office desk.

Geoff

As a business journalist for large newspapers for more than a quarter of a century, the editor of a growing blog site (Pharmalot.com) and, most of all, a huge music fan, I sadly understand every reason cited for this decision. Unfortunately, such moves are inevitable, but like you, I wish it didn't have come down to this. Nonetheless, I want to thank you for publishing such a fine and enjoyable magazine. And whatever you all do next, I wish you the best.

I was driving home from work yesterday when I heard the interview starting in middle part and was SO glad that you were receiving the NPR publicity gift. Then I realized it was the death knell of my favorite magazine (of the 20+ I subscribe to- much to my wife's dismay).

I cannot even begin to describe the joy and pleasure your publication has given me.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am very sad but I understand now after listening to the first part of the interview.

Best wishes to all of you.

The worst news of my life. Another piece of America lost. I feel orphan again. From Spain I send you my tears and my congratulations for your wonderful work. Life, sometimes, sucks.

I have been a reader since #15 and a subscriber for almost as long. I've collected all but 3 back issues, not because of completism, but just because I consider the magazine a self contained encyclopedia (of whatever it is it covers) (covered).

But this bothers me not just because it is a strand of intellectual/musical thought-fabric gone from the whole cloth.

It also bothers me for what it implies about the quality of music (and other) journalism that we should expect in the future (exacerbating our collective attention deficit disorder.)

Grant and Peter, if you publish it, I'll read it.

This leaves me empty.

As a former editor for a local paper (112 yrs old & killed by the publisher)and an arts monthly (20 yrs old and killed by its publisher) and a big fan of ND I'm very sad to see this happen. Hope some miracle happens as did to the volunteer radiostation I'm making Americana shows for: someone rich decided it's a good idea to have it around. Wish you (and Mary) the best. Peter

This really stinks.

This is truly sad news. Heard it on NPR a couple of days ago. Like others, I'd be willing to pay a higher subscription price. Or, keep the balance of my subscription if that doesn't work out. I like the idea of a connection to eMusic someone mentioned before. Best to all of you for the great writing, passion, and grace...

all the years i submitted my music to ND without any mention or review. hmmmmm. no hard feelings, though. i still subscribed. now i guess you all know how i feel... life is hard, music matters.
all the best
kenny meeks

So sorry to hear this guys. Thank you for the work you have done. I've always loved your style, design, and focus. You will be missed. I've been working in the alt-weekly newpaper biz for the last decade (while pissing into the musical winds) and seen a couple print publication deaths. It's always awful. All you can do is hold your nose...I hope ya'll land on yer feet. Please know we love you!

All my best from the middle...
KP

no fancy words.This hurts.It sucks.I am very sad that i am losing a dear friend and the best mag in the music biz.like so many i watched for mark [the mailman] when it was time for my bi-monthly shot of goodness.I would run downstairs and grab the mail and get reading.Thanks nd for all the good stuff.I am sad that this has come to pass.

I'm gutted, for me and for you. I'd only got to your site to renew my sub. Discovered my first copy of ND in Tower Records, London, the Nov/Dec 1998 issue with Golden Smog on the cover and subscribed ever since. Can't tell you how much I've enjoyed reading the mag and discovering new music through the stuff you covered. It's so very sad. But thanks for all the good times.

It was such a wonderful sunny day here in Nusco, Southern Italy, today. But then I started visiting your site for a possible anticipation on the next issue and stumbled on that terrible news. Why did you have to spoil this gorgeous out-of-season day? See you down the road, guys, wherever you go - and keep on rockin'!

So very sorry to hear about the death, he will be sorely missed. How bout letting us subscribers use our unused portion of mags in old issues ,that would be real righteous

My deepest gratitude to the staff and contributors of No Depression for striving (and succeeding) to produce something of worth and beauty in this fast-food/plastic/Walmart age. But, more importantly, thanks to my fellow readers/subscribers for desiring and appreciating such a product. To say, "you will be missed," doesn't even begin to sum up my sentiments.

The demise of ND; What a sad and telling commentary on the sorry state of American culture...

I'm really sorry to hear the bad news. No Depression has been an excellent resource for us Americana fans over here in the UK. I really don't know where I'll be able to keep in touch with what's happening over the pond. Thanks all your great work over the years.

Be proud of what you've achieved. You've been read around the world. I've been introduced in your pages to great wonderful music which otherwise I would have missed. I'm sad that your time is up but you've had one wonderful achievement in life already. How many can claim that?
Give yourselves a round of applause and remember - "No Depression!"

Tough news. Hope an angel arrives with deep pockets. Great magazine

Just wanted to chime in with "thanks and good luck" to y'all.

I can still remember opening up my first copy of your magazine at a Tower Records in suburban VA in '97 - the Whiskeytown cover issue - and with that small step opening up a whole world of great music and writing and realizing I wasn't the only weirdo in the world listening to the Jayhawks. What always came through was your mindfulness about the music you covered (and the music you didn't) and the value of music in life in general. Thanks for your publication and good luck in your future endeavors.

GRANT, PETER:

As a fellow editor-publisher with print bylines dating back to 1964, I understand and sympathize with the challenges facing publishers (including dramatic cost increases in paper and postage).

During the last decade, ND has become my favorite publication. When my wife heard on NPR of its demise, I was SURE she was missteaken -- until I clicked onto your site, just now (for the first time ever).

Sigh.

You guys done good; REAL good! I'm sure glad that I saved every subscriber copy, and purchased back issues of those that came before. The timeless quality of your features will keep me rereading them as long as I can read.

Hoping for a continued Web presence, at least,

DAVE WALLACE

I just found out about ND being no more. What a lose:( It was this magazine that made me want to do a Radio show which I was able to do for a year on the local community radio station here Kansas City Mo. I wish I would win the big lottery. You folks are the best at what you do I will miss the ND. How will I get my fix of new Americana Music? Again thank you and be best of luck.

Sad news indeed. I've been redaing for about 9 years and your mag has introduced me to dozens of new (and old) artists I'd never heard of. Here's my personal eulogy:

http://carnivalsaloon.blogspot.com/2008/02/no-depression-1995-2008.html

I just read the news in my new issue last night. As I contemplated this sad event I sat looking at my stack of ND's and realized that the collection has traveled with me from Portland, OR to Berkeley, CA to Port Townsend, WA, to where I am now in Houston, TX. I access these issues all the time- especially to find that music I'm listening to for the first time was covered and/or reviewed years ago by ND when I wasn't cool enough to catch on. Your publication will be missed very much by me and many others. My fingers are crossed for some windfall of good fortune that will keep the issues coming.

Just read the news on aquariumDrunkard. I'd been reading since 99 or so, and had received a sticker from you guys. It was stuck on my guitar and this boy at school noticed it (and me) and we finally met and he thought it was the coolest sticker. Since then we've been together. Thankyou for bringing people together and sharing great music with the public. xoxox
ps. pic is from '99..sticker on bottom of guitar.

I will miss ND a lot. It took me years to get a complete ND - collection (paying a lot for the old issues on ebay ). Dozens of artists I would never have heard about, without ND. You helped me to discover hundreds of beautiful records and wonderful artists, nobody ever heard about in Germany. I remember travelling to a Buddy Miller concert in London from Germany, where i did actually got the opportunity to speak with Buddy. A great artist, I would never even have heard about, without ND. Nothing compares to you.

I cant remember the first issue I read, but I've looked forward to everyone. With many other music publications becoming more sensationalized No Depression was a welcome relief. I'll miss the enabling of my music habit No Depression provided.

I find it hard to read to issue that just arrived in the mail due to the strong sense of sadness that comes over me every time I do. I will miss this magazine more than I can say. So many new artists that I first heard about in ND, the festivals that I went resulting from hearing about them in ND...it is such a deep loss. Thank you so much for all your excellent and hard work over the years.

Just read the news. I'm shocked. A number of years ago, I sent a review for a gig here in Ireland to the magazine. I hadn't any experience in writing reviews but ND took a chance on me. The magazine not only printed the review but I got paid for it! I couldn't tell you how proud I was. To this day, it's one of the best things that ever happened to me. I really am grateful. I'm still in shock about the closure.
Phil.