13 years of highbrow Maximum Rock and Roll punk journalism has come to an end. Chicago’s Punk Planet is ceasing publication due to “bad distribution deals, disappearing advertisers, and a decreasing audience of subscribers.” You can get Punk Planet at my local hippie grocery store for cryin’ out loud. Those hippies must not be paying their bills. So it goes without saying (except I’m saying it anyway) that Punk Planet’s other title, the skateboard/culture magazine Bail, will officially die as well. Although I haven’t seen a new issue of Bail in what seems like years already. It’s got to be hard to keep an independent magazine in print. As one star fades out, another is in ascendance, so go on over to Razorcake.org and help them make it.
[Source: Time Out Chicago]
6 comments
Kilwag
I think we call those “Marital Aids” – I’m still trying to slip in under the few work content censors that allow us.
michael brooke
it’s a shame about Bail….we need MORE independent skate media (make that more indy media!)
the first clue that I thought there might be trouble is when I saw ads for dildos….
Paige
Next thing you know Kathleen Hanna will be the one slinging lattes.
Kilwag
perhaps it was the indignity of Sonic Youth releasing a compilation on the in-store only Starbucks music label that finally put them over the edge.
Welsh Pete
Bail had potential, initially. Then they did the whole Beastie Boys cover… It turned into watered down pap pretty soon.
I liked Punk Planet though. There was some very good journalism attached to that publication.
But yeah, support Independent Media.
Paige
Good riddance.