RIP DIY Weekly

After 66 brilliant issues, we’re somewhat teary eyed to report that this week’s DIY Weekly will be the final edition.

Fear not though, dear reader. This isn’t one of those stories about struggling journalism, lost jobs and shuttered offices. We’re perfectly fine! As one of the first digital weekly editions of a monthly print title, DIY Weekly pushed boundaries that others followed. With cover artists including Disclosure, Laura Marling, Fall Out Boy, Queens of the Stone Age and Vampire Weekend, it’s been a blast.

However, technology waits for nobody. Publishing digital magazines via tablet is an intensive process, and that means how you as a reader choose to interact with what we do is important. As time has progressed we’ve seen more and more of you wanting to read the articles within via our website rather than via the app, where it’s harder to share or dip in via a link to read a single piece. With our new, fully responsive diymag.com the gap between website and app based digital mag has become even wider. At the same time, our print magazine goes from strength to strength, with the latest issue featuring both more pages and a larger run.

We think a modern music publication should always take risks and try new ideas, but it should also look at the facts and move with its readers, rather than ignore them. As an independent magazine, we’d rather make sure we were using our time to bring you more of what you want, where you want it. Our free print title showcases the best of our writing, photography and design first in a brilliant, pulpy form, while our website is a constantly moving fountain of information and excitement. A weekly title, especially when we now have such a great website, seems almost quaint in comparison - neither as fast moving as online or as considered as the monthly.

We’ll be going all in on both diymag.com and print from here on in, bringing you a brilliant, free, physical magazine plus even more brilliant bands and exclusive stuff day in, day out online. Reviews, news, features, photos and more you can check out and share wherever you are, whenever you want, without living within the boundaries of an app. You’ll see early signs of that with our upcoming coverage of both Latitude and the newly announced Dr. Martens #STANDFORSOMETHING Tour 2014, with special sections of the site launched today to keep you bang up to date with everything going on.

And that’s not all. We’re putting on more and more DIY Presents shows and events, with some big announcements on that front to come over the back half of 2014.

Regular readers with a flashy tablet shouldn’t fear - you’ll still be able to read the print magazine in its full glory on any device via the website as well as in lovely paper form from our wonderful stockists.

As ever, when we call one thing a day, we’re already plotting something new to take Weekly’s place too. Something fresh, original and really bloody exciting. Keep your eyes peeled for that. It’s spectacular.