Save Paste Magazine!

Paste is pretty much the best music magazine in the country, if not the world, and we just can’t afford to lose it. They seek out new artists as well as giving props to established ones, regardless of their cool status. Their writers take the time to really craft a story no matter what the subject, creating a piece work that could stand alone anywhere but is a part of something greater in this magazine.

The magazine, like so many other publications, while having a fantastic subscriber base and dedicated readers, has really been hurting from the downturn of the economy, and therefore the loss in many advertising dollars. Though the group has expanded in many great ways, the funds that used to be there are drying up. While this will only be a temporary situation, it is clear that Paste is in desperate need of some help to hold them over until things start to look up again.

Here’s a link to the campaign, in which Paste is asking for donations. In return, donors will get (in addition to the satisfying feeling of saving a great company) a ton of rare mp3s from some ace musicians:

Artists include The Decemberists, Neko Case, She & Him, Cowboy Junkies, Of Montreal, Indigo Girls, Jayhawks, String Cheese Incident, G. Love, Josh Rouse, The Hives, Matthew Sweet, The Avett Brothers, Joe Henry, John Roderick of The Long Winters, Over the Rhine, Bob Mould, Arrested Development, Brandi Carlile, John Doe, Josh Ritter, Marc Broussard and more.

There are also a number of goodies (such as signed R.E.M. and Band of Horses posters, an ocean-view cabin on next year’s Cayamo cruise, and more) to give to donors in random drawings.

Click here for more info. and to donate, and please, please, please post this, email this, tell everyone you know, and heck, even people you don’t know. Stop folks in the street and tell them - you could make a friend.