Altered Zones: An Obituary.

November 30, 2011, 11 comments

Whatever time zone you live in, tomorrow you’ll wake up to a world that’s just become a little less awesome. Altered Zones is gone, brought down and killed by unknown dark forces whose identity we can only suspect. But whatever reason was ultimately crucial to make the decision over at the Pitchfork mothership to shut the internet’s greatest place for underground pop music, and apart from the fact that in hindsight, a lot of signs had pointed in this direction for quite a while already, AZ will be missed terribly, among the fellow blogosphere as well as the whole independent music community. And, let us say just this, it was a bad decision, and it’s gonna be interesting to watch Pitchfork struggle to regain the readership for bold and amazing music, cause at the end of the day we imagine it must be rather tough to first outsource the great stuff to wholeheartedly focus on this, and then to try to get back where you once had been, a place, we’d like to add, Fact, Dummy, The Fader, and probably even Vice and a few others have never left. On the other hand of course, maybe this is where you always wanted to be.

But let’s leave it at that. About Altered Zones, of course you’ve also always been a pain in the ass, like the older, painfully cool kid that was hanging around on the schoolyard, smoking (even weed!), being friends with all the skaters and musicians that were all ignoring us as long as they were getting your attention, and every time we asked one of the girls out they always already had a date with you. So yeah we kinda hated you, but of course, only because we desperately wanted to be at least nearly as cool as you.

Our thanks go out to all our friends over at AZ for almost two years of constantly amazing work, and in particular to Emilie Friedlander and Ric Leichtung for making it all possible each and every day. You were the dopest competition we could’ve ever dreamed of.

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