"So while the old editor of Vibe moves on to a thing partly founded by Henry Louis Gates, the new editor of Vibe comes from fat ass-featuring mag King."
I prefer to think of it as thick ass-featuring mag King, thank you.
In other news, Leo Hindery, Jr.'s paycheck the week after he purchased Vibe was 20% less than normal. Also, a stranger at the bar at Applesbee's referred to him as "bro."
He's so awesome. With all the talk of Michael Jackson's career over the last several days, Quincy's impact on him can't be overstated. He was the one who transferred MJ into adulthood as an artist, and the best albums of his career are the ones they made together.
If you ever want a good read, pick up a copy of Quincy's autobiography. Dude's lived enough life for 10 people.
Quincy is a testament to it not being about a generational gap. Certain minds are timeless because they know and accept adaptation as part of the process. I nominate Quincy Jones as King of The Olds!
"Print and all that stuff is over, we gotta remember that. The Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Post Intelligencer. The Miami Herald. They're over the same way as the record business. We have got to get into this century."
@unclevanya: Why chilling? I find it prescient. We can't afford to ignore the continuing downward spiral of the print media. It's a shame that the "more reputable" sources of news and information like the Times don't get this. While I can't claim to be an ardent reader of Vibe I certainly cannot devalue Jones' sentiment. It's 2009! Let's get with it already.
Hard as it may sound, in light of the current situation, something good always comes out of a crisis.
It's perfect time, the newspaper industry is in real trouble - a bunch are up for sale or miring chap 11 (bankruptcy).
The medias business' catastrophe is alone with nothing left but creative minds figuring out how they can reinvent themselves and dump some juicy news contents wherever, whenever we want.
Here's a hint of the fittest media business strategy for the next decade
Monday to Friday: online contents & mobile news delivery would be the king
I started receiving RollingStone and never signed up for it. Does anyone know why this happens? I just started getting another magazine I don't pay for either. Is this to boost their numbers for advertisers?
Someone's taking those little subscription cards and filling them out with your name, address, etc. You'll probably be getting a bill soon but don't panic. Just write them and tell them you didn't order it and it'll stop. You won't owe anything. It's just like those old CD/cassette music clubs. Someone signed me up as a joke, I told them I didn't order it and to stop sending then and I kept the ones they did send. But they were crappy CDs I'd never buy, so...
@Ken Green: i really doubt that anyone in wankster's life is taking subscription cards and just filling them out and sending them in to fuck with them, dude. it's a whole helluva lot more likely that he signed up for some mailing list or attended some event that RS purchased names from/"sponsored" to start sending magazines to to pick up flagging circ numbers. ie standard industry practice, not crazy ppl targeting anyone?
I'm not really sure who is better than Spin or Fader--who both have a great presence online--but do tell. We're talking about music journalism and breaking new artists here. Not just regurgitated news of upcoming tours and why your favorite indie rocker stopped eating chickens.
@sweetpickles: well, it depends on what sort of "new artists" you're talking about breaking. if it's indie rock, pitchfork is pretty much the only game in town, and even its power has waned over the years. (there's also a clutch of music blogs that in the grand scheme of things help set up the pitchfork canonization.) if it's hip-hop, there's nah right. if it's kinda-cool american apparel stuff, the fader is the game. other genres have their own hierarchies. it's very fractured.
and the few remaining print outlets are not really breaking artists anymore -- look at rolling stone, which has had products of tv (adam lambert and the jonas brothers) on its last two covers. music coverage is becoming more and more reactive, by dint of all profit-seeking content ventures having to play the pageview game in order to stay afloat.
it pains me to say this because of both the source and the fact that the whole process of "breaking" is teeny tiny when you compare it to the pop era of 10 years ago, but the online outfit who has most significantly "broken" musical artists in recent months is (ugh) perez. lady gaga and katy perry were certainly aided by his constant touting of them, thanks to the huge firehose of traffic he wields. (not to mention that back when amy winehouse first came to the states a washington post profile quoted her press agent as saying that the attention he gave to her proclivities was good for her brand.) those two have broken bigger than any pitchfork/blog-touted artist, although even then, in the grand scheme of things, lots of people out there have no idea who they are or what they sing, thanks to being able to cocoon themselves in radio that plays "the '60s '70s and '80s" or, even more often, their own ipods. (and perez has certainly backed horses that haven't taken off here -- much as i love robyn, his pushing of her didn't work out commercially, in large part because the musically savvy populace who she would have appealed to bought her album when it was an import a few years ago.)
I gotta say, Vibe lasted way longer than I thought it would. I consider it a success really. At the time when the Quincy Jones backed magazine came out it had no real competitors.
The only music mag I would spend money on is Mojo.
09/09/09
I prefer to think of it as thick ass-featuring mag King, thank you.
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This would explain Brian Austin Green vs Snow in the new Best Rapper Alive tournament
08/12/09
07/01/09
When the record companies got crushed by illegal downloads they didn't adapt quickly and the same with print.
As an old, my only problem with digital is how much everything is disposable.
Analog Hell, Digital Heaven?
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07/01/09
If you ever want a good read, pick up a copy of Quincy's autobiography. Dude's lived enough life for 10 people.
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Call me an old. I find this statement chilling.
06/30/09
Why chilling? I find it prescient. We can't afford to ignore the continuing downward spiral of the print media. It's a shame that the "more reputable" sources of news and information like the Times don't get this. While I can't claim to be an ardent reader of Vibe I certainly cannot devalue Jones' sentiment. It's 2009! Let's get with it already.
06/30/09
06/30/09
06/30/09
It's perfect time, the newspaper industry is in real trouble - a bunch are up for sale or miring chap 11 (bankruptcy).
The medias business' catastrophe is alone with nothing left but creative minds figuring out how they can reinvent themselves and dump some juicy news contents wherever, whenever we want.
Here's a hint of the fittest media business strategy for the next decade
Monday to Friday: online contents & mobile news delivery would be the king
Week End : Premium Print edition
06/30/09
06/30/09
06/30/09
Someone's taking those little subscription cards and filling them out with your name, address, etc. You'll probably be getting a bill soon but don't panic. Just write them and tell them you didn't order it and it'll stop. You won't owe anything. It's just like those old CD/cassette music clubs. Someone signed me up as a joke, I told them I didn't order it and to stop sending then and I kept the ones they did send. But they were crappy CDs I'd never buy, so...
06/30/09
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06/30/09
and the few remaining print outlets are not really breaking artists anymore -- look at rolling stone, which has had products of tv (adam lambert and the jonas brothers) on its last two covers. music coverage is becoming more and more reactive, by dint of all profit-seeking content ventures having to play the pageview game in order to stay afloat.
it pains me to say this because of both the source and the fact that the whole process of "breaking" is teeny tiny when you compare it to the pop era of 10 years ago, but the online outfit who has most significantly "broken" musical artists in recent months is (ugh) perez. lady gaga and katy perry were certainly aided by his constant touting of them, thanks to the huge firehose of traffic he wields. (not to mention that back when amy winehouse first came to the states a washington post profile quoted her press agent as saying that the attention he gave to her proclivities was good for her brand.) those two have broken bigger than any pitchfork/blog-touted artist, although even then, in the grand scheme of things, lots of people out there have no idea who they are or what they sing, thanks to being able to cocoon themselves in radio that plays "the '60s '70s and '80s" or, even more often, their own ipods. (and perez has certainly backed horses that haven't taken off here -- much as i love robyn, his pushing of her didn't work out commercially, in large part because the musically savvy populace who she would have appealed to bought her album when it was an import a few years ago.)
06/30/09
The only music mag I would spend money on is Mojo.