RTP-area local music and culture

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grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> 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

and thanks to you, ross, for this eulogy.

the lack of response to your post underscores the loss of long-term memory 
in our culture, engineered for the corporate necessity of a novelty-seeking 
and "forward looking" populace.

things, i think, carrie always fought against.

though, when i think back, wasn't stay free! originally a publication that 
carrie began when she was working as a college rep for sony or some other 
label?

ah, well. the question really is, does corporate corruption corrupt us all 
completely, or do we all spin it all, somehow, of our own will? and, in 
the end, after nietzsche, what does genealogy matter, anyway? 

-r and don't forget "sony free" too i