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R.I.P. <i>Blender</i>

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R.I.P. <i>Blender</i>
Ad Age is reporting that Alpha Media is closing Blender magazine, their long-running, list-loving music magazine. Ad sales for the mag have dropped 57% between January and April of this year. Former Rolling Stone editor Joe Levy, who has run Blender since last year, will move on to Alpha Media's lone remaining magazine, Maxim , as editor. It's tough out there for music mags these days. [ Idolator ]  
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This is so depressing...

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Just yesterday I was leafing through that Kelly Clarkson issue of Blender and thinking, "this is kinda weak," but it's still sad that they're going under.

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Wow, and I was having a sh-itty day.

LOOKS LIKE THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER ALREADY!!!

LOL@BLENDER'SDEATH.COM/ROFL

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Never was that much a fan of the magazine, but still depressing news. At this point, how many print music magazines are left? Is there any difference between print and online for music anymore, considering how many people get music online now anyway?

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There aren't many.
I'm still shocked when a big name mag goes under. And yeah, that part alone is depressing.

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Haha, about time. That magazine was tewwible.

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Just looked through the music mag section at B&N. And when you see that, the music mags are sharing shelf space with the rest of the men's lifestyle magazines then you know there's hardly any left.

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Not sure how, but I actually have the first several issues of Blender. At its best, I found it to be informative with a lot of cool trivia and a more freewheeling style than most music mags (borrowing the best bits from Q certainly didn't hurt), but once they gave Korn's Untouchables 5 stars, I just knew that this was a magazine that had gone, as Robert Downey Jr. put it, "full retard."

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