On January 17, 2024, news broke that the leading anglophone music publication, Pitchfork, was getting folded into parent company Conde Nast’s flagship men’s vertical, GQ. Many venerable music journalists were laid off, and with this publication’s demise only months after the evisceration of Bandcamp Daily, many in the music writing community (including myself) felt like this was the last nail in the coffin for professional music writing.