A former Blender writer outlines the "three biggest reasons music magazines are dying" in a piece published by Slate. It's not groundbreaking to anybody who's been paying attention, but he does talk about it in a way that doesn't condemn any of the players. He simply lays out the ugly details of how the big magazines are slowly sinking into a tar pit of public dispassion.
Is it still vivisection if the creature is barely breathing?