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  • From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Bye-Bye Stay Free!
  • Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:51:50 -0400

Carrie's had a long (long! I don't recall the exact date of issue #1 but it predated the premiere of this-here newsgroup, for sure) print run of Stay Free!, but she's decided that the time for print zines is well-nigh-done, or at least the time for print zines published by her: http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2007/03/the_future_of_s.html

I think it would be difficult to overestimate the impact of Stay Free! on the local music/arts/culture scene of the 90s. A couple of obvious markers would be the fact that Stay Free! released (as singles inside the zine itself) the debuts of Evil Wiener, Spatula, and, oh yeah, Archers of Loaf. Much more important, I think, was Stay Free!'s good-natured (and usually really funny) insistence that we could and should care about issues larger than ourselves. At the time (the mid-90s), the most obvious/pressing such issue was the ever-increasing encroachment of corporate America into all aspects of our lives.

Still is, I guess: look behind nearly every rotten decision by the Bush administration & you'll find the smiling face of some corporation.

So long, Stay Free!, and thanks.

xo

Ross




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