No Depression Magazine Ceases Publication

2/19/2008 Stephen L. Betts No Depression, the bimonthly magazine covering American roots music since 1995, is ending print publication with its 75th issue in May-June 2008. Plans to expand the publication’s website (www.nodepression.net) with additional content will move forward. The March-April issue, currently en route to subscribers and stores, includes a note from the magazine’s publishers citing declining advertising revenue, the economy, and the closing of numerous “brick-and-mortar” stores which carried the publication among reasons for the decision to cease publication.   No Depression published its first issue in September 1995, and continued quarterly for its first year, switching to bimonthly in September 1996. In 2004, the Chicago Tribune ranked No Depression No. 20 in its list of the nation’s Top 50 magazines of any kind.