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 an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, a look at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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And now it's time for another installment of Rock-Critically Correct, in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, he examines the most recent issue of Spin:
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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 an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, a look at the new issue of Vibe:
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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 an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, he contrasts the Britney Spears cover stories in the new issues of Rolling Stone and Blender:
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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 an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, a look at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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Those few remaining newspaper diehards who buy the special Super Bowl Sunday and Grammy editions of the New York Daily News will get three free downloads from EMI, as well as access to a new Ringo Starr song. The deal is a way to drive traffic to the paper's Web site, which has really been trying to up its pageviews lately with other tricks like spreading its gossip column out over four clicks, and yet another way to get people sorta used to not paying for music. Because they're not not doing that already, right? (P.S. I wanted to illustrate this post with this cover in honor of the Santana-to-Mets deal, but I couldn't find a hi-res version. Hey, Daily News, if you want people to visit your Web site, having archival versions of important issues might be a good start!) [E & P]
And now it's time for another installment of Rock-Critically Correct, in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, he examines the most recent issue of Spin:
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A profile of the producer/singer/guy-who-wears-wads-of-cash-as jewelry The-Dream (government name: Terius Nash) in Women's Wear Daily starts off as one might expect: He likes expensive things and is part of the line of producers who have remade urban radio in their own image, stealing some of the spotlight from the singers of their songs. In the middle of the piece, however, writer Jacob Bernstein manages to capture the unsustainable nature of the current urban music business.
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And now it's time for a special edition of Rock-Critically Correct! Usually, this space presents analyses of the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin by an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them!—but this time, our critic gives us his take on yesterday's announcement that Joe Levy would be taking the top post at Blender:
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VH1 talking-head staple and former Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy has been named editor-in-chief of Blender, according to a release that just landed in our inbox. Levy is apparently replacing Craig Marks, who had been Blender's editor-in-chief since 2004; the magazine also appointed a new publisher in December. Guess this means Levy won't be on the next season of I'm From Rolling Stone! Full release after the jump.
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Last week, Jezebel invoked People editor Dick Stolley's "Law Of Covers," which proclaimed in part "Movies are better than music. Music is better than television. Television is better than sports... And anything is better than politics." But in this era where "popular music" is having something of a crisis, is television really less newsstand-worthy than music? To test this hypothesis, I looked at the 2007 cover roster of pop-culture generalist bible Entertainment Weekly, which this week boasted a two-page music section (sure, it was a slow week for new releases, but that's smaller than the space it devoted to books!). As my former colleague noticed back in November 2006, the magazine's covers devoted to music-related topics had become few and far between. Would 2007's roster of covers show that Stolley's maxim was still in effect, or had the boob tube finally won out over the tube amp?
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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 an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! After the jump, he looks at the year-end wrapup published by the bible of the Hot Topic set Alternative Press:
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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 an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, he takes in the year-end issues of RS, Spin, and Blender:
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Back in August, the New York real-estate firms Related and Vornado bought the Virgin Megastore chain—not because they wanted to roll around in free CDs, but because the chain's two NYC stores are paying way below-market rent. Which just happens to be going to those two companies. Well, it looks like Related, which owns the building occupied by the chain's Union Square outpost, is ready for its payday! Billboard.biz is reporting that the New York company Winick Realty has been shopping the two-floor, 58,000-square-foot Union Square outpost around, and according to a corroborating report in the New York Sun, the asking rent is much, much higher than the estimated $100-a-square-foot that Virgin is paying now:
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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 an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, a look at the new issue of Vibe:
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And now it's time for another installment of Rock-Critically Correct, in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, he examines the Conde Nast Movies Rock supplement:
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