Blender: RIP March 2009

My life would suck without you. Well, it's too late now.

Blender was a heavy bet from the Reaper for a long time and officially put on death watch last November. Today, the Reaper decided it was time to go the way of most vinyl.

Blender is the poster child of how to take a perfectly good magazine and destroy it. Perhaps he was on a clandestine mission for Jann Wenner, but CEO-for-a-year Kent Brownridge spent a fortune mysteriously raising Blender's rate base to one million, luring Joe Levy away from Rolling Stone to edit it, and then hiring the new publisher from rock rag Reader's Digest.

Now Blender is running with the devil. Amen.

Comments

[Congo]

Sad to see the death of what was once a very hot book. But the cover says it all. How excited can anyone really get about most of today's big-name music acts? Kelly Clarkson and U2 make Journey and Foreigner look like scruffy indie bands.

[tangerinedream]

Didn't know what it wanted to be when grown up. Pop magazine? Girly bikini magazine? Young hip lifestyle guide? Tried to be all of above. Succeeded in none. Except Invitation to Reaper.

[Franklin]

Poor metaphor, Reaper.

Vinyl isn't dying off. Though it occupies a miniscule portion of music retail, its sales have increased the last four or five years. It's more likely to survive than most magazines. After all, it's not an ad-based entity :)

[Jermo]

Vinyl Rules!

I'll miss it. I had a free subscription until 2017. Now if only Rolling Stone would die.

[Grim Reaper]

I said "most vinyl," not all vinyl. I know my metaphors!

[Elizabeth]

I'm glad. I was waiting for my free sub to end. It was semi-amusing at first, but Kelly Clarkson? Who cares?

[Brooks]

Good riddance.

[Sacknuts]

First of all vinyl? are you kidding? The only thing good about vinyl is the bands that were on it. Cd's are better. It's the music that sucks now. Rolling stone is on its way.