“Spinning in the Grave: The Three Biggest Reasons Music Magazines are Dying,” by Jonah Weiner on Slate.com. Link via post title.

I’m not sure I ever considered Blender a music magazine in the sense that Jonah Weiner prefers to understand “music magazine,” i.e., as “an early form of social networking.” Yeah, music magazines (and book reviews, and local reportage, for that matter) were just that, but “that”  wasn’t called “social networking,” it was called a scene. Or a community. Blender was never the product of or home to a scene. It was an industry vehicle, and it went down in the mudslide of a slimy corporate music business.