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# The 3 Biggest Reasons Music Magazines Are Dying
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/the-3-biggest-reasons-music-magazines-are-dying/
- Published: 2009-07-29T09:52:01.000Z
- Updated: 2009-07-29T09:52:01.000Z
- Description: It's no secret that music magazines a rapidly becoming a relic of another era. Most blame a decline in advertising revenue coupled with the growth of free online music media. . Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/07/the-3-biggest-reasons-music-magazines-are-dying.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:03

It's no secret that music magazines a rapidly becoming a relic of another era. Most blame a decline in advertising revenue coupled with the growth of free online music media. But ex-Blender **[![Stack of magazines](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2011572456fa9970b-200wi)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2011572456fa9970b-pi?ref=hypebot.com)**staffer Jonah Weiner suggests there are other factors killing our once beloved music rags in his Slate piece "[Spin](http://www.slate.com/id/2223381/pagenum/all/?ref=hypebot.com)[ning In The Grave](http://www.slate.com/id/2223381/pagenum/all/?ref=hypebot.com)".

**1.** There are fewer superstars, and the same musicians show up on every magazine cover. 

**2.** Music mags have less to offer music lovers, and music lovers need them less than ever anyway.

**3\.** Music magazines were an early version of social networking. But now there's this thing called "social networking" …