Music

In bloom: Drug culture in Boston music

Blast Magazine Newsroom

December 11, 2011

Opening the doors of perception

Foo Fighters Tour Diary: 11/16/11 — Finally back in Boston

Morgan Lawrence

December 10, 2011

Our four-part series comes to an end

Brandyn Burnette releases video for his Bruno Mars/Gavin Degraw mash up

Erin Farnsworth

December 5, 2011

Where else will you see a Gavin Degraw-Bruno Mars mashup?

Hot Chelle Rae “Whatever” album review — Cliche and cringe-worthy

Chrisanne Grise

December 3, 2011

Neither creative nor inspired

2012 Grammy Nominees

Erin Farnsworth

December 2, 2011

Full list inside

Getting to Know: Our local girl Siobhan Magnus

Getting to Know The Issue

December 2, 2011

Hitting the ground with solo tour and album

Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland settles down

Erin Farnsworth

November 29, 2011

New hubby appeared in music video

Foo Fighters Tour Diary: 11/14/11 — Newark

Morgan Lawrence

November 27, 2011

Part three of four

Bieber lays on the romance

Brittney McNamara

November 22, 2011

He loves his girlfriend

American Music Award winners list

Erin Farnsworth

November 22, 2011

Complete list

Foo Fighters Tour Diary: 11/13/11 — New York

Morgan Lawrence

November 21, 2011

Part two of four

Foo Fighters Tour Diary: 11/11/11 — Washington

Morgan Lawrence

November 21, 2011

Part one of four

Interview: Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett

Chrisanne Grise

Music The Issue

November 16, 2011

Goofing off

Black Sabbath to release new album and tour worldwide in 2012

Erin Farnsworth

November 13, 2011

First album in 33 years

Getting to Know: Leah Siegel — Firehorse

Morgan Lawrence

Getting to Know Music The Issue

November 12, 2011

She's a rock star

Getting to Know: Boston band Mean Creek

Getting to Know

November 10, 2011

Locally rising stars

Adele’s throat expected to heal

Erin Farnsworth

November 8, 2011

Massachusetts doctor treated singer

Rapper Heavy D dead at 44

Erin Farnsworth

November 8, 2011

Rapper died of "health-related" cause

“Talihina Sky” The story of Kings of Leon review

Randy Steinberg

November 8, 2011

An effective band doc

Conrad Murray convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson case

Brittney McNamara

November 7, 2011

MJ's doctor found guilty

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Blast Magazine was launched in 2007 with a simple thought — do journalism for the video game generation. We’ve really seen a lot since the 1980s. Nintendo Mega Man games, dial-up Internet, Dos, and the Palm Pilot were all in their infancy as we grew up. We shared files on 1.44MB (that’s MEGABYTE) floppy discs, and they were more than sufficient. As we grew up, the Internet blew up. Today you can stream a movie live in HD. Not only did HD not exist when we were growing up, but downloading a single, low-quality MP3 of our favorite song could take over an hour!

Technology developed quickly as we came of age, and we can claim to have mastered everything from iPads to Netflixes. But there is one thing that our generation did not have to grow up with — car maintenance.

A lot of us are interested in cars and trucks and motorcycles — this site wouldn’t be necessary if we weren’t. But how many Gen-Y’ers have ever had to change their oil? Change the brakes? Fix a cracked serpentine belt? Fixing cars was always something optional for us. We had to want to jack up a car and change a tire.

So now that we’re adults and we’re starting to recover from the crushing debt of our student loans, (We’re very bitter about this) we are finding our interests diversifying. If we were into cars already, we are getting more into cars. If we could never afford it, we are slowly raising our expectations. Say what you will, we are a curious generation.

Blast Cars is not exactly a beginners’ guide to the galaxy, but we’re not going to assume you know everything. We’re learning with you, and the experts we’ll bring into the process will walk both of us through everything we ever wanted to know about everything automotive.

In addition to restoring our Shop Truck, we are following some other Gen-Y restoration projects, including a racing bike. We’ll also bring you some relevant news, reviews, and rumors. We’ll even take a look at some of the most famous cars in movies, music, TV, true crime, and other popular culture. Let us know what you want to see!