Blast’s 2009 Media Kit is now available for advertisers. For the love of God, SPONSOR US. We’re really freakin good, we swear.

Volume 3 Issue 8 for July 2009 Contributors for the issue included: Conception Allen, Amy Carboneau, Jess d’Arbonne, Ashley Dean, Stephen Greenwell, John M. Guilfoil, Michael Kaufmann, Bessie King, Eddie Makuch, Erica J. Marcus, Liz McClendon, Marc Normandin, Elizabeth Raftery, Kellen Rice, Terri Schwartz, Sachin Seth, Trevor Timm, Zac Turgeon, Megan Vick and Sarah Young.

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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. Don’t ask for the print edition.

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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 have found coverage of both the 2008 presidential race and the latest breaking news from the porn industry? 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 coverage pretty well with the latest from every Canadian indie rock band and Tegan and Sara.

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Blast Magazine is a Boston-based publication.

We have bureaus in New York and San Diego.

We have reporters in New York, Philadelphia, Orlando, Fla., San Diego, Toronto, New Delhi, India, and Brisbane, Australia. How wicked cool is THAT?

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