Here's a press release about No Depression, a site that will bring great roots music writing back into the picture. I've never heard the term bookazine before, but according to Dennis Publishing it's:
Essentially a Bookazine is a perfect-bound, magazine-sized soft back book focusing on a particular subject matter. These bookazines are sold on the magazine racks and are priced between £6.95 and £9.99 with production values to reflect this price.
Huh, good idea.
NoDepression.com,
a greatly expanded and enhanced website from the former bimonthly
magazine No Depression, has made its debut as the primary destination
for fans of American roots music in all its various incarnations.
Like
the magazine, which was the authoritative voice for roots music from
1995 to 2008, NoDepression.com stresses first-rate writing - now
bolstered with audio, video, and featuring daily updates of editorial
content. At launch, the site previewed Lucinda Williams' album Little Honey and her North American tour, as well as a report from the Austin City Limits Music Festival, and daily coverage of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco Oct. 3-5.
NoDepression.com
is edited by No Depression co-founder Peter Blackstock and will feature
contributions from many of the magazine's longtime senior editors and
contributing editors. The site was created by The Old State, a web
design and development firm in Dallas, Texas.
No Depression received significant assistance in creating the new site
through contributions from its Founders Circle, a cast of more than 200
donors whose names appear on the Founders Circle page.
Also available is the first No Depression bookazine," part of a new twice-annual series of print publications issued through University of Texas Press.
The bookazine, edited by Blackstock and Grant Alden, combines book and
magazine elements to carry on No Depression's tradition of publishing
long-form music journalism.
A series of 15 NoDepression.com
Launch Shows will be held October 15-23 in conjunction with MusiCares,
a foundation designed to assist musicians in times of financial,
personal or medical crisis. Plans are also in the works for a July 2009
No Depression Festival to be held in the Seattle area.
NoDepression.com Launch Shows:
Oct 15: Nick Lowe, Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, OH
Oct. 15: Alejandro Escovedo, Fine Line, Minneapolis, MN
Oct. 16: Abigail Washburn & Sparrow Quartet, Bijou Theatre, Knoxville, TN
Oct. 17: Jimmy Webb, Schubas, Chicago, IL
Oct. 17: Lucinda Williams, War Memorial Auditorium, Nashville, TN
Oct. 17: Chatham County Line & Thad Cockrell, Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC
Oct. 17: Minus 5, Mission Theate, Portland, OR
Oct. 18: Minus 5 and Band Of Annuals, Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WA
Oct. 18: James McMurtry and Mando Saenz, Granada Theater, Dallas, TX
Oct. 18: Crooked Still, Iron Horse, Northampton, MA
Oct. 19: Crooked Fingers, Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO
Oct. 19: Lucinda Williams, Pageant, St. Louis, MO
Oct. 20: The Duhks, Smith's Olde Bar, Atlanta, GA
Oct. 21: Rodney Crowell, Birchmere, Alexandria, VA
Oct. 22-23: Carrie Rodriguez, Cactus Cafe, Austin, TX
