Blender (magazine)

Blender

Issue 2.1 from 1995, featuring Björk
Editor-in-chief	Dale Hrabi
Former editors	Howard Stringer
Categories	Music
Frequency	10 times per year
First issue	1994; 30 years ago (1994)
Final issue	April 2009 (2009-04)
Company	Dennis Publishing
Country	United States
Based in	New York
Language	English
Website	Blender.com
ISSN	1534-0554
OCLC	34610465

Blender was an American music magazine published from 1994 to 2009 that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more". 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 began in 1994 as the first digital CD-ROM magazine by Jason Pearson, David Cherry, and Regina Joseph, acquired by Felix Dennis/Dennis Publishing, UK it published 15 digital CD issues, and launched on the web in 1996.^[1] It started publishing a print edition again in 1999 in its most recent form. Blender CD-ROM showcased the earliest digital editorial formats, as well as the first forms of digital advertising. The first digital advertisers included 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".^[2]

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.^[3] Subscribers to the magazine were sent issues of Maxim magazine to make up for the unsent Blender issues.