Unless you love pop, Blender was always a poor music magazine. Rolling Stone is almost as bad with it's pop fetish.
Too bad nobody seems to want to cover the performers who deserve national attention but can't get on the radio becaseu they don't fit in with brainless 13-yr old repetetive crap.
i actually liked blender. mostly because i find rolling stone bland and awful and spin obnoxious.
blender was pretty fuckin' funny, and their covers featuring female pop stars really weren't any racier than rollingstone's. there was definitely some fratty humor, but it was pretty standard apatow-esque fare. nothing really that offensive on the whole (i'm using tabloids and other glossies as a basis for comparison here.)
there reviews were good, well-written and funny, and they published some pretty good interviews as well.
@argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?: I agree. I think I enjoyed the magazine more when it first came out, but I still bought it on occasion afterwards. There were definitely some well written articles and interviews. The covers with half-naked starlets did get old, but there was still good articles buried within.
Thank Jeebus. I started receiving this magazine last month out of nowhere, and I definitely never requested it. Now it will stop cluttering up my tiny apartment mailbox!
I don't have the link, but the Blender website had a tape of Henry Rollins cracking the shits at them for naming him as one of Rock's worst songwriters. They even added animation to go with the audio. Precious.
I'm sorry to those who lost their jobs, and I worry for any other entity that calls Lil Wayne an "exemplar of excellence." Pitchfork, watch out. They may be coming for you next.
@Penny Plastic: I'm cool as long as Mojo, Q, and Uncut don't go away.
Blender tried so hard to be Q, and it was never going to happen. They even stole several of their features, all to no avail. I'm sorry the Blender staff are losing their jobs, but I won't miss this crap magazine.
It was bound to happen. I mean how many people own blenders that they could support a magazine? I mean, what was there to talk about? How many speeds they had? Which made a smoothie faster? The handwriting was on the wall...
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Too bad nobody seems to want to cover the performers who deserve national attention but can't get on the radio becaseu they don't fit in with brainless 13-yr old repetetive crap.
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blender was pretty fuckin' funny, and their covers featuring female pop stars really weren't any racier than rollingstone's. there was definitely some fratty humor, but it was pretty standard apatow-esque fare. nothing really that offensive on the whole (i'm using tabloids and other glossies as a basis for comparison here.)
there reviews were good, well-written and funny, and they published some pretty good interviews as well.
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i miss comment preview.
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Looks like the only one who's not suffering from the economy is Satan. Raising hell is recession proof, apparently.
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Blender tried so hard to be Q, and it was never going to happen. They even stole several of their features, all to no avail. I'm sorry the Blender staff are losing their jobs, but I won't miss this crap magazine.
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sucked ass. Maxim with music. I was bored and offended at the same time.
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It's always sad when people lose their jobs. Good luck/thoughts to everyone who worked there.
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