good charlotte in 1999: let's start a pop punk band good charlotte in 2026: let's kill pop punk, alt rock and more music journalism
Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation
the madden brothers founded Veeps and are co-CEOs. they own 49% of the streaming company
in 2021 Project M acquired the publications listed above
in either 2024 or 2025, Veeps purchased them
LiveNation has had a controlling stake of Veeps since 2021
"Each publication has a storied history and a more or less unwavering mission that has endured for multiple decades. Levine founded BrooklynVegan in 2004 at the peak of the era’s rock revival in New York; Revolver, founded as a general-interest rock magazine in 2000, has been a hard-rock and metal institution since the following year; Goldmine has been publishing a physical newspaper—and, more recently, magazine—for record collectors since the mid 1970s; and Alternative Press was founded in Cleveland in 1985 and remained in the city until its acquisition by another Maddens company, the Veeps parent MDDN, around 2020." (per the above article)
"Nearly all staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday."
"Emails to BrooklynVegan staffers, with the exception of founder Dave Levine, bounced back."
"Pitchfork has emailed Veeps and Live Nation representatives for comment."
"RIP Brooklyn Vegan. Absolutely bewildering. Thinking of all the great people there and the unparalleled music coverage they’ve done over the years. Utterly unceremonious and moronic actions by Veeps." - Jacob Daneman, publicist (x)
