In the second depressing letter we've read this month from a financially troubled publication (the first coming from McSweeney’s), Punk Planet has announced that its latest issue is the final issue. The publication’s farewell statement is careful to place blame, acknowledging that the ease of accessing new music and music journalism online has diminished Punk Planet’s significance, yet accepting that “great things end, and the best things end far too quickly.” It appears that on top of a myriad of complex marketing issues, including “the mistaken belief that punk died several years ago,” the biggest factor was bad relations with its distributor.
Based in Chicago, Ill., Punk Planet is a bi-monthly magazine that began publishing in 1994. A Punk Planet book line created in 2004 will continue along with certain aspects of the Punk Planet website.
“There probably isn't much else to say that we haven't already said in [the final issue]—in articles about new activist projects, SXSW, the demise of the IPA, and transgender media, and in interviews with the G7 Welcoming Committee, Andre Schiffrin, and The Steinways,” the letter states. “Read it, enjoy it, and find in it enough inspiration to last until we come back in some other form, at some other time, renewed and ready to make another outstanding mark on the world.”
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PunkPlanet.com
Punk Planet Magazine – RIPP
PunkPlanetBooks.com
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