The Death of the Music Mags Pt. XXXVIX: Zombies (“REEEADERS! REEEAAAADDDERS!”)

For some time now, We’ve watched as the music mags began giving up the ghost. We’ve even seen magazines squeeze out an extra 6 months of life by taking reader donations. But here’s a new one, a zombified magazine (of sorts): Folio reports that the founder of Harp (which folded last year) is planning to launch a print version/companion of his apres-Harp website Blurt.

Yes, it sounds very Bizarro world: instead of being a print mag with a companion website, they’re going to be a website with a companion print mag. It seems hard to wrap your brain around the logic, but then again, maybe it’s just the publishing variation on the “think digital first, physical second” philosophy. At any rate, it’s certainly a unique move– and I'm very interested to see how this one plays out.

- Ryan Catbird