Upend It

Great write up on Thing in the Spring in The Bomber Jacket.

READ THIS SHIT!

The thoughtfully curated festival brings local, national and international music to Peterborough, New Hampshire. Its schedule has been designed with musical diversity in mind, but does so without logistically and financially overwhelming attendees: no set times overlap and a weekend pass is only $50 (with individual events costing no more than $20). Gagne stresses the importance of the low price-point, saying, “I definitely come from a D.I.Y. background, playing and setting up tons of underground, all ages, and affordable shows over the past 20 years, so making it affordable was a necessity for me.”

I wrote some stuff about The Media and the demise of the Boston Phoenix. Feelings alert. 

The death of the Boston Phoenix hit Free Press hard. As an organization working to protect independent media, we feel the loss of any publication or outlet. But this felt different.  Maybe it was because we had worked so closely with the paper

lizpelly:

if you haven’t heard, The Phoenix is ceasing publication. i feel sincerely heartbroken right now.

this exact week marks my two-year anniversary of working at the Phoenix. words cannot express how much i’ve learned and grown from being surrounded by the energy of the Phoenix over those past two…

I sincerely loved the Boston Phoenix and am so upset about this news. This publication has shown so much love to the bands I am in, has employed and launched the careers of some great writers and journalists, has covered so much state level politics that otherwise would go unnoticed, and gave tons of support and coverage to Free Press a few year’s back at the National Conference for Media Reform, the list goes on. 

Alt-weeklies are the last ones out there to still put so much energy and time and resources into arts, culture, activism, etc. What happens when they are all gone? Especially the good ones?