CLEVELAND, Ohio – Northeast Ohio has misplaced certainly one of its storied leisure and media establishments. And it occurred relatively quietly.
Different Press Journal closed its places of work at 1305 W eightieth St. in Cleveland’s Gordon Sq. Arts District in December. The transfer got here on the heels of the journal being bought in fall 2020 in a really low-key transaction to MDDN LLC, the music media firm launched by brothers Benji and Joel Madden, finest recognized for his or her pop-punk band Good Charlotte. Particulars of the sale haven’t been made public.
California Secretary of State data present the corporate, Different Press Inc., was formally integrated in California in December with its new headquarters listed at 4321 W Magnolia Blvd. Burbank, Calif.
Mike Shea based Different Press in Cleveland in 1985 as a technique to promote different music, which at the moment lingered within the music business’s underground scene.
Over the 36 years, Shea and his group constructed the journal to be one of many main music publications within the nation, serving to push the early careers of everybody from 9 Inch Nails and Inexperienced Day to Paramore, and Fall Out Boy.
Different Press earned its personal Rock & Roll Hall of Fame exhibit in 2016 to mark the journal’s thirtieth anniversary. AP additionally hosted the Alternative Press Music Awards over 4 years beginning in 2014.
Shea and longtime editor Jason Pettigrew are now not with the publication. Shea declined to remark for this story.
In a press launch issued on Dec. 30, Different Press journal introduced the appointment of Julie Anne Quay, former CEO and Founder of world youth popular culture platform VFILES, as its new CEO. Quay joins a group that features managing director and former Kerrang! editor Sam Coare, and inventive director Josh Madden, the older brother of twins Benji and Joel.
“Different Press is without doubt one of the uncommon breed of media properties that has continued to evolve and thrive since its inception within the 80′s,” Quay, the journal’s first feminine CEO, mentioned in an announcement. “It has the type of fiercely loyal readership that makes different magazines jealous and nonetheless to today, being on the duvet of AP is one thing coveted by the world’s finest artists.”
Quay additionally takes an possession stake within the firm alongside the Madden brothers’ majority stake by way of their funding firm MDDNvest.
MDDN didn’t reply to a number of emails for touch upon the sale or the way forward for Different Press.
