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Volume 6, Issue 5 for May 2012 — Contributors for the issue included: Ivan Favelevic, Sandra Giger, John M. Guilfoil, Brittney McNamara, Shannon O’Neill, Jason Rabin, Elizabeth Raftery, Joe Sinicki, and Miya Williams.

Layout by John M. Guilfoil

How does Blast work?

Blast has new content every day, but on the first of each month we put out a new “issue” with original photography and bigger, magazine-length feature stories.

What is Blast?

Blast is a lifestyle and tech magazine focused on us spoiled, rotten Generation Y kids born between 1978 and sometime in the early 90s. (And a few Generation X holdovers — think MTV before “The Hills,” Atari and baseball with long hair, mustaches and no steroids.) We’ve experienced Nintendo, AOL when it was dial-up and all the girls in the chat rooms were models, Windows (or MAC), Doom on a 3.5″ floppy, boy bands, iPods, iPhones and college degrees that stuck us with a mortgage in student loans.

Blast’s contributors do music, movies, theater, video games, gadgets, clubbing, fashion, sex, food and liquor for starters. We write about some of it too.

Blast is online only. Don’t ask for the print edition.

Blast is a form of convergence journalism, looking to combine the quality of print journalism (and print journalists) with the convenience and unlimited space of the web. Where else can you find a 2,000-word video game review or a 3,000-word band interview? Maybe Rolling Stone. Yeah, we’re not as good as Rolling Stone.

Where else would you find coverage of President Obama and the sex advice? Maybe Maxim. We’re better.

We try to be equally geared toward guys and girls — forgive us if it doesn’t seem that way, but we think we balance the pregnant porn star story pretty well with the latest from every indie rock band like Tegan and Sara.

Member: Online News Association

Blast is a Boston-based publication.

We have standing bureaus in New York, Denver, Miami, Dallas, San Diego and Rome

Additionally, we have reporters in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Seattle, Philadelphia, Orlando, Toronto, London, Dublin, Brisbane and Sydney.

How wicked cool is THAT?