​Yesterday, the tasteful-culture bible Paste abruptly suspended its print edition, the latest music-related publication to shut down in the past few years. The Paste website, on which the display ads for subscriptions lead to an announcement of the print issue's suspension, will continue to live on, running stories that were in the pipeline for issues of the magazine that haven't been printed (including the issue dated August 2010, which is still at the printer).

Reaction to the magazine's demise, the latest in a long line of them, has been swift, and even sort of nice -- even the claws-out commenters at Gawker were for the most part kind. "It's kind of like when we went through the 'Save Paste' campaign last year, which we were very hesitant to do," said editor-in-chief Joshua Jackson, who remains at the magazine with publisher Nick Purdy and president Tim Regan-Porter, as well as a few interns. "It seems like every email I'm getting is somebody just wishing us the best, and thanking us for what Paste has meant to them."

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​After nearly folding last summer, it looks like the Georgia-based music mag Paste is departing for good this time. Staffers got the news in an afternoon meeting yesterday, and have since taken to Twitter, looking for new jobs--pretty conclusive evidence that the pay cuts the writers took and reader-led bailout of the magazine last July were not enough to save it in the long run. And thus another magazine joins Blender, the old, fully-functioning incarnation of VIBE, and No Depression in the graveyard of music-focused print products. Social media and the dissolution of Paste's particular reader niche--as chronicled in their own cover story, "Is Indie Dead?"--surely didn't help.

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​Operative quote from a new chat with Paste: "In The Hold Steady, I was kind of a fox in a hedgehog band. The Isaiah Berlin thing about the hedgehogs who have one defining idea and the foxes who have a lot of different ideas. So this is going to let me indulge a lot of those different ideas." Meaning he wants to be a touring Vaudeville entertainer now. Seriously. Also: "The mustache is not ironic." Godspeed to him, but this is starting to bum me out. I am not alone.

(Paste also has a lengthy article called "Is Indie Dead?" that I'm afraid to say anything about, or in fact even read.)