Sound Magazine (nee Seattle (Sound)), the free slick magazine with a $4.99 cover price that’s officially about Northwest music but also finds plenty of room for fashion and restaurants, disappears in September as a stand-alone entity.

But it won’t vanish altogether. Rather, it’s merging with City Arts, another freemag that has a lot fewer ad pages than Sound but better distribution.

Will Sound’s relatively hefty ad volume prop up CityArts’ thin but eclectic coverage of visual and performing arts?

Will CityArts’ more numerous street distro boxes bring Sound’s music coverage to more readers?

Or will the blended product resemble an awkward clash-O-cultures, rather than a lovingly made mixtape?