Loading ...Well, the big story this week was probably the shuttering of Blender, the pop magazine who suffered the one-two punch of being a printed entity about music in 2009. Blender’s overarching popism was a big influence on Idolator from the time of its launch in 2006, and even as the death spiral of ad pages resulted in its once-mighty reviews section being whittled down to a handful of 130-word blurbs, I admired its spunk and willingness to reach across the musical comfort zones that divide people more often than not these days, if not always its choices of “hot,” vaguely music-related cover subjects. After the jump, thoughts on the Blender closure from a smattering of people around the Internet, many of whom saw their bylines appear in the magazine’s pages at one time or another.
Posts Tagged ‘Robert Christgau’
Wikinerds Not Convinced That Robert Christgau Is An Effective Consumer Guide
So over the weekend, a (false!) rumor that rock critic heavy Robert Christgau died made its way around the Internet, with Christgau’s Wikipedia entry being one of the chief culprits in spreading the news. I figured that the entry’s talk page–on which the nerdier denizens of the people-edited online guide dispute the finer points of others’ edits–would provide at least a minute or so of vaguely amusing obituary-dispute reading, but what I came across was even better: a section titled “How legit is this guy?”
Christgau Once Again Dispensing Consumer-Guide Capsules
Former Village Voice music editor Robert Christgau wrote his last Consumer Guide two weeks before he was fired from the paper; his capsule-review column has found a home on MSN, where it’ll run bimonthly. More »
Liner Notes: As It Turns Out, Bribery Won’t Get You Everywhere
- The Rolling Stones’ Bill Clinton-honoring show proves that there are, in fact, velvet-rope guards out there who can’t be bought off. The catch? They all work for the Secret Service. More »
