Artist: vibes

While the UK music press posts slightly gloomy circulation figures, there's some equally glum news from the US: Vibe is cutting its frequency to 10 issues a year , putting staff on short hours, and cutting its circulation. (In other words, it's going to stop promising advertisers each issue will reach a certain number of issues and pitching for a lower level of take-up; In Vibe's case by 25%.) In a bid to offset the loss, there's going to be "a twice-a-year newsstand-only celebrity tabloid." Which, unarguably, is trying something new in the face of the current [...]

Ad Age reports that hip-hop magazine Vibe will reduce its frequency from 12 issues a year to 10, merge its print and digital operations, and institute a four-day workweek (and pay cuts) for employees as a way to deal with the recession. The magazine is also introducing a twice-yearly tabloid that will focus more on celebrity than music, upping its subscription rates, and slashing its paid circulation by 25%. Cutting paid circulation — in Vibe's case, to 600,000 from 800,000 — was once a sign of weakness in the [...]

Reduces Circulation, Frequency; Staff Gets Pay Cuts, Four-Day Workweek by Nat Ives Published: February 11, 2009 NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Vibe magazine is cutting its paid circulation 25%, reducing its frequency to 10 issues a year from 12, and merging its print and digital editorial operations, all in the magazine industry's latest response to the twin attacks by recession and new media. But Vibe is also departing from the standard playbook by introducing a twice-a-year newsstand-only celebrity tabloid. It plans to increase the [...]

I was fortunate to have a rare Friday off from work, so after lunch at Genji's and a few hours roaming a barren wasteland Circuit City I was tuckered out. So when I got home I was flipping through the channels and got sucked in by the trifecta of The Jaime Foxx Show , The Wayans Bros , & Smart Guy on BET. 106 & Park came on & I said fuck it, maybe something good will happen, but then I remembered Friday The 13th was next week. I watched any way. [...]

Not to long ago, we hosted KaiserCartel for a Laundromatinee.com session . The duo returns to Indianapolis this Saturday night at Vibes Music in Broad Ripple for the AT NIGHT music and art event. Doors are at 7pm and costs $7. This is a homecoming show for native Hoosier Courtney Kaiser, a former backup singer for John Mellencamp. Kaiser now based in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she creates indie folk with partner Benjamin Cartel. The interesting and odd artwork of [...]

If you aren't reading Kanye West 's blog religiously, what the hell are you doing that's better? Containing more unneccessary diatribes and enthusiastic, caffeine-induced ramblings than our other favorite melodramatic icon whose blog is a goldmine , Yeezy knows how to keep us on our heels. In one of my favorite recent rants, the rapper laments the image that VIBE Magazine used on the cover of its newest issue. Kanye has very obvious patches of grey in his facial hair, leading some [...]

by cheryl s. Kanye West wants (some of) his fans to go away. In his most recent interview with Vibe Magazine , he said: "I want the freedom of having less fans. It's like the freedom of having less money. If you have less money, you have less responsibility ... It's like Björk. If she wanted to pose naked, you'd be like, 'Oh, that's Björk.' But if I wanted to [do so], people would draw all type of things into it." Right. [...]

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In February's issue of Vibe, he exclaims: *I want the freedom of having less fans. It's like the freedom of having less money. If you have less money, you have less responsibility. It's like Bjork. If she wanted to pose naked, you'd be like, 'Oh, that's Bjork'. But if I wanted to pose naked, people [...]

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St. Louis, you're going to have to decide between two all-star local lineups this weekend. First is Relapse @ Club Lit presented by JadedElite and Faith of Techno. This is an 18+ party with a flat $5.00 admission. If you are 21 or older, you can BYOB and get hella shit-faced on the cheap. Check out this lineup: 9-10pm - Matt Beatz (progressive/tribal house) 10-11pm - Butters (techno) 11pm-12am - DJ Ziio (electro) 12-1:30am - [...]

"I'm presently thinking about the future." I have the utmost respect for Gotty™ and his taste in music even though at times I have fundamental disagreements with his choices. Case in point. There's a balance to be stricken between being a hustler and being an artist. In very main ways, the truth behind the old adage about money being the root of all evil is indeed confirmed because the pursuit of monetary gains is artistic poison, if ever such a thing [...]

the most in-depth breakdown of the dudes that grace the cover of this month's XXL, brought to you by J.D. of HipHopUpdate . enjoy. check out XXL's "Leaders of the New School" cover from last year: So we've got a few legit MC's in there - Lupe, Joell Ortiz, Saigon - One which actually dropped an lp. Then we've got Plies, Boosie, Gorilla Zoe, Rich Boy, Young Dro, Papoose & Crooked [...]

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the most in-depth breakdown of the dudes that grace the cover of this month's XXL, brought to you by J.D. of HipHopUpdate . enjoy. check out XXL's "Leaders of the New School" cover from last year: So we've got a few legit MC's in there - Lupe, Joell Ortiz, Saigon - One which actually dropped an lp. Then we've got Plies, Boosie, Gorilla Zoe, Rich Boy, Young Dro, Papoose & Crooked [...]

Most critics have a love-hate relationship with album reviews. On the one hand, they're an absurdly limiting format, forcing you to find things to say about albums you don't care about, limiting your thoughts on albums you do care about, and requiring a bottom-line consumer reccomendation that might not really encapsulate your honest feelings. On the other hand, in these hard times for music scribes, record reviews are the one unique service we can provide that the public always seems to want. Which is why it seems crazy that Alernative Press was considering removing [...]

Most critics have a love-hate relationship with album reviews. On the one hand, they're an absurdly limiting format, forcing you to find things to say about albums you don't care about, limiting your thoughts on albums you do care about, and requiring a bottom-line consumer reccomendation that might not really encapsulate your honest feelings. On the other hand, in these hard times for music scribes, record reviews are the one unique service we can provide that the public always seems to want. Which is why it seems crazy that Alernative Press was considering removing [...]

Most critics have a love-hate relationship with album reviews. On the one hand, they're an absurdly limiting format, forcing you to find things to say about albums you don't care about, limiting your thoughts on albums you do care about, and requiring a bottom-line consumer reccomendation that might not really encapsulate your honest feelings. On the other hand, in these hard times for music scribes, record reviews are the one unique service we can provide that the public always seems to want. Which is why it seems crazy that Alernative Press was considering removing [...]

Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone , Blender , Vibe , and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others ! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Vibe : In the month since Your Boy last assessed Vibe , the publication found itself in a most unfamiliar position: For the first time in a very great while, [...]

In an effort to stave off mean Internet rumors, Vibe editor Danyel Smith took to the airwaves on Friday, insisting to anyone within earshot of New York City's KISS-FM that, contrary to all that chatter , Ciara was definitely not wearing any clothes when she was photographed for the magazine's current cover. And that the atmosphere was one that was all love, all the time! "It's just dramatic," Smith said during the interview. "I'm actually really sad. Almost any photo you see on the cover of Vibe or any magazine is [...]

Like the Timex Social Club, I spend a lot of time lamenting the rumors that surround me every day. How do they get started? And where do they get crazy? In Truthmongerer, I'll try to suss out the kernels of truth in the rumors that are taking up airspace in gossip columns, blogs, and our tips inbox. THE RUMOR: Ciara is contemplating a lawsuit against Vibe , saying that her nude pics in the mag—including the one on the cover—were the result of Photoshop trickery, and not her posing while wearing nothing [...]

Perhaps you've been watching the recent semi-demi-hemi-kerfuffle involving Robin Thicke and Vibe magazine. Perhaps not. Here's the short version: Thicke wants to be on the mag's cover and was politely rebuffed. He mooned about it but seems to have accepted it, in a pouty sort of way , by claiming the mag doesn't allow whites on the cover, cheerfully ignoring the presences of Eminem, the Beastie Boys, Justin Timberlake, and others on Vibe 's front. Today, Danyel Smith, Vibe 's editor-in-chief, released a brief, noncommittal statement regarding the matter, noting that the publication [...]