Editor-in-Chief | Dale Hrabi |
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Former editors | Regina Joseph (Founding Editor-in-Chief), Howard Stringer |
Categories | Music |
Frequency | 10 times per year |
Founded | 1994 |
First issue | August 1994 June–July 2001 (Print) | (CD-ROM)
Final issue | June 1997 April 2009 (Print) | (CD-ROM)
Company | Dennis Publishing |
Country | United States |
Based in | New York |
Language | English |
Website | Blender.com |
ISSN | 1534-0554 |
OCLC | 34610465 |
[1][2][3][4]Blender was an American music magazine published from 1994 to 2009 that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to pop culture".[5] It was also known for sometimes steamy pictorials of celebrities. It compiled lists of albums, artists, and songs, including both "best of" and "worst of" lists. In each issue, there was a review of an artist's entire discography, with each album being analyzed in turn.
Blender was published by Dennis Publishing. The magazine was created by founding Editor-in-Chief Regina Joseph as the first digital magazine, delivered entirely on CD-ROM disc and before the development of graphical browsers required to view the web.[6][3][7][4][8][9][10][11][12] She brought in co-founders Jason Pearson and David Cherry, and Blender's original publisher, Felix Dennis/Dennis Publishing, UK.[3][4][1][11] Joseph's CD-ROM editions of Blender also featured the first forms of digital advertising.[7][1][4][8][11] Felix Dennis published 15 digital CD issues, and launched a web version in 1996.[13] The final CD-ROM issue was published in June 1997, issue 14.[14] Dennis started publishing a print edition again in 1999 which became the final distribution format of the title. Blender CD-ROM showcased the earliest digital editorial formats, as well as the first forms of digital advertising. The first digital advertisers included SonicNet,[1][7] Time-Life/Philips,[11][7] Calvin Klein, Apple Computer, Toyota and Nike.
In June 2006, the Chicago Tribune named it one of the top ten English-language magazines, describing it as "the cool kid at the school of rock magazines".[15]
Owner Alpha Media Group closed Blender March 26, 2009, going to an online-only format in a move that eliminated 30 jobs and reduced the company's portfolio of titles to Maxim alone. Blender's final print issue was the April 2009 issue.[16] Subscribers to the magazine were sent issues of Maxim magazine to make up for the unsent Blender issues.
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