Paste Announces Re-Entry into Print Magazine Publishing with Paste Quarterly
The new edition comes six years after the original print magazine went solely digital
ATLANTA, Dec. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Paste, a leading entertainment and lifestyle site covering music and pop culture, announced today an Indiegogo campaign for its new quarterly print publication, Paste Quarterly. The first edition of Paste Quarterly will be distributed in March 2017; each magazine will feature insightful long-form content and a vinyl album with exclusive tracks recorded at the Paste Studio in New York.
Paste launched its first print magazine in 2002, mainly covering music, film, and books, and went online-only in 2010. In the eight years of print publication, the magazine earned numerous prestigious publishing awards and nominations, including American National Magazine Awards nominations for General Excellence and Best Reviews, a Folio Eddie Awards win for Best Consumer Entertainment Magazine, and PLUG Independent Music Awards win for Magazine of the Year. The online brand has grown significantly in the six years that Paste has solely published digital content, boasting over seven million unique web visitors in November 2016, up tenfold from 616,000 unique visitors in September 2010 (the first month after going all-digital). Paste content has also further expanded beyond music to also include food, drink, tech, style, politics, and travel, among other cultural topics.
Paste Quarterly is designed as an artistic, beautifully crafted reading and listening experience for subscribers, printed on large 12-by-12 inch, thick paper with rich colors, enhancing its striking photography and illustration. The most notable feature of the magazine is the new Paste Sampler: a 150-gram colored vinyl album with exclusive tracks by artists including Violent Femmes, Lake Street Dive, Shakey Graves, Lucius, Josh Ritter, Joseph, Anderson East, Lee Fields, Bonnie Bishop, and Courtney Barnett.
The new magazine will also incorporate stories from the best writers in the publishing industry on pop culture topics that are currently covered on the website, as well as pieces highlighting upcoming artists across media and genre to help readers discover their new favorites.
"We're thrilled to debut the new Paste Quarterly. We've enjoyed the freedom of publishing digital content and will continue to add more categories to the website," said Josh Jackson, Paste's founder and editor-in-chief. "But this new magazine is a truly unique and exciting opportunity to share something special with our readers. Our goal has always been to surprise and delight our audience, and we're convinced this will do both."
Each edition of Paste Quarterly is $20, and yearly subscriptions are $70. Subscriptions to Paste Quarterly can be placed through the Indiegogo page at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paste-quarterly-movies-music#
About Paste:
Paste is a leading a leading entertainment and lifestyle site, covering music, movies, TV, games, comedy, books, politics, design, tech, food, drink, travel, style, comics and soccer. Led by founding editor-in-chief Josh Jackson in the Atlanta headquarters since 2002, the site has grown to more than 7 million unique monthly visitors, thanks to readers hungry for authenticity and creativity. This highly engaged and devoted audience looks to Paste to discover what's happening in pop culture. In October of 2014, Paste opened a music studio in Midtown Manhattan, where it records live video performances from a diverse array of bands for the Paste Cloud, a platform for audio and video, including artist-generated content and the largest collection of curated live music performances on the internet—over 85,000 tracks dating back to the early 1960s. In March 2017, Paste will return to its award-winning print roots with Paste Quarterly, a beautifully made, 12" x 12" quarterly publication which comes with a vinyl sampler filled with exclusive tracks from the Paste Studio.
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