After more than 10 years in print, AMP Magazine will be no more, nor does it appear that the website will continue to operate. Its sister publication, Hails & Horns, will also be closing down.

Publisher Brett Matthews posted a lengthy letter on the AMP website, which included the following passages:

We thank you for your more than a decade of support, and undying love and celebration of that which is our underground. It has been an amazing ride, and we can’t wait to see what awesome magazines arise to tell the story of the shape of punk to come. Subscribers, our aim is to be able to refund all of your monies. Please be patient with us and know that we have about 30K of debt that we owe just to be able to close.

It has become quite apparent over the last couple years that doing a print-zine is not a viable option for AMP and Hails & Horns in this day and age. I also feel that at this point we wouldn’t be able to offer anything above and beyond what is already happening out there in a digital-realm. Compromising our content and coverage from what we love and want to cover could never be an option, regardless of potential advertising revenues. It would not be true to ourselves, or our supporters, who have brought us this far.

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