Sad news for periodical fans, as Georgia-based Paste magazine, despite awards and avid readers, has announced that it will be shutting down operations and ceasing publication, effective immediately. The pop culture and music journal had been struggling with financial problems for the last couple years, but news about closing down is still quite shocking to hear. Though, despite how shocked you and I as readers are, I doubt that the staffers, who were given two hours notice to clean out their desks, are much less shocked than us.
There’s a chance that Paste will return as web-based magazine (copy cats), but there has been no official word on any future plans for Paste. Now, I could sit here and urge you to keep buying print materials so that magazines, newspapers, comics, and books will stick around, but I know that you get all your music news right here on Tiny Mix Tapes, right? Good. You better.
• Paste: http://www.pastemagazine.com