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''No Depression'' was, from 1995-2008,〔 a quarterly and then bimonthly magazine that covered a broad range of roots music, including alternative country and Americana. It went out of print in 2008, evolving into an online publication driven largely by crowd-sourced content from 2009-2014. No Depression was purchased by FreshGrass LLC in 2014, who introduced the return of paid long feature stories and weekly columns. And, in 2015, it announced the magazine would be returning to print with a first annual edition releasing in September 2015. ==History== ''No Depression'' was launched in September 1995 (as a quarterly) by co-editors/co-founders Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock. Kyla Fairchild, who handled the business functions of the magazine from the beginning, became a co-publisher with Alden and Blackstock in 1998. The magazine was named for the Carter Family song "No Depression in Heaven," the 1990 album ''No Depression'' by the band Uncle Tupelo, and an early AOL online discussion group on alternative country called The No Depression Folder. Over the course of thirteen years, No Depression gradually grew into one of the nation's most prominent and broad-ranging bimonthly music publications until it ceased print operations in June 2008. Along the way, ''No Depression'' received Utne Reader Independent Press Awards for Arts & Literature coverage, and was cited as one of the nation's Top 20 magazines of any kind in 2004 by the ''Chicago Tribune''. Other ventures during the company's print history included a No Depression Tour (featuring Whiskeytown, the Old 97's, Hazeldine, and the Picketts) in 1997; two best-of anthologies published by Dowling Press (1998) and University of Texas Press (2005); and the No Depression Radio Show, which aired on dozens of stations across the United States in 2002 and 2003. The publishers announced in February 2008 that the May–June 2008 issue would be its last.〔(No Depression: letter )〕 Buddy Miller was featured on the cover of the final issue, with ''No Depression'' declaring him Artist of the Decade. ''No Depression'' co-founders Alden and Blackstock sold their ownership stakes to Fairchild in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Fairchild sold her ownership to FreshGrass LLC in 2014. FreshGrass LLC also holds the (FreshGrass Festival ) in conjunction with Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). Two No Depression music festivals took place at Marymoore Park, just outside Seattle. The first was on July 11, 2009 and featured Gillian Welch, Iron and Wine, Patterson Hood and the Screwtopians, Jesse Sykes, Justin Townes Earle, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Zee Avi, and Seattle roots music all-stars. The second was August 21, 2010 and featured The Swell Season, Lucinda Williams, The Cave Singers, Alejandro Escovedo, Chuck Prophet, Sera Cahoone, and The Maldives. In the wake of the magazine going out of print, ''No Depression'' launched a community website (NoDepression.com) on the Ning platform in February 2009. That site was a community of bloggers, videographers, photographers, artists, labels, DJs, venues, and fans around the world. Site content came from throughout the community, which attracted more than 190,000 visits (155,000 unique) per month. In early 2014, Kyla Fairchild moved on, selling ''No Depression'' to FreshGrass LLC, who migrated the website off the Ning platform, to its own domain, later that same year. That migration included the resurrection of commissioned professional editorial content alongside the crowd-sourced content that continues to make up much of the publication. Now, in addition to the reviews, photos, videos, podcasts, and articles posted by contributors around the world, No Depression commissions a few cover stories per month, maintains a small handful of paid weekly columnists, and curates a venue-focused live review program called (ND Roots ). FreshGrass also integrated the extensive archive of ''No Depression'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「No Depression (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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