BABBLE AND BEAT MUSIC MAGAZINE WAVES GOODBYE!
After an amazing 3-year run, Stacy has decided to let the magazine dissolve...
"It wasn't easy running a popular and rapidly growing magazine all by myself. From the beginning, advertising revenue was hard to come by, and being a completely free e-zine I just could no longer justify investing an average of 50 hours a week out of the goodness of my heart - while working another full time job."
In the end, Babble and Beat had reached a readership of 13,800 unique views per month and had interviewed 3 Doors Down, Hal Sparks, Golden Smog, Sparta, The Waterboys, From First to Last, The Alarm, DK's Klaus Flouride, All Time Low, Squeeze's Chris Difford, The Briggs, X, Family Force 5, New Model Army, Ghostigital, Kevin Lyman, John O'Hurley, Against Me!, The Bravery, Bo Bice, National Product, The Wolfmen, Every Avenue, Apollo Heights, Goldblade, The Verve Pipe's Brian Vander Ark, Alesana, 3OH!3, Incubus, The Last Dance, Set Your Goals, and countless more.
Babble and Beat also featured three consecutive years of 'Musician Ghost Stories', featuring the likes of Tim Finn (formerly of Crowded House), Throw The Fight, Joolz Denby, Belladonna, Cutaways, Midnight Syndicate, The Human Value, Morningwood, The Undead/Bobby Steele, Unextraordinary Gentlemen, Girl in a Coma, Action Action, Confide, Bear Colony, Killola, Rohan, Dengue Fever, Electrocute, The Daughters of Bristol, Carbellion, Hypatia Lake, The Dandy Warhols and Blessthefall, to name a few.
In 2008, B&B introduced a music player that showcased 7 different artists each month. This proved to be a very successful addition for all involved. Githead, Marykate O'Neil, Mar, The Godfathers, Michael Aston's Gene Loves Jezebel, New York Alcoholic Anxiety Attack, Dub Pistols, Id Guinness, Lil Beck, Raoul Sinier, Gordon Gano & the Ryan Brothers, Jesse Dee, War Tapes, Cue the Moon, The Age of Rockets, Audrey Ryan, Senser, If Wen, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, The Dirty Hearts, Smudge, Down the Lees, Baby Scream, Louis Guidone, The Los Dos Bros, The Television of Cruelty, and Martin and James were a handful of the artists we lovingly promoted.
