Vibe magazine reportedly shutting down
According to Gawker.com [via DailyFinance.com], Vibe magazine, one of the largest music magazines in the nation, has folded.
Founded by legendary music producer Quincy Jones, Vibe was “essentially the black version of Rolling Stone”, but as urban music genres continued to dominate popular music, Vibe became a music newsstand staple. Vibe‘s closure follows a long list of recent major music magazine shutdowns, including Blender.
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According to Vibe chief financial officer Angela Zucconi, a statement is expected later in the day.
Vibe has been off it’s game in recent years, but that was always the problem with trying to reach a wide audience.
The Source is hardly without their own issues though. I mean, XXL has been much more consistent in the hip-hop mag genre, considering how the Source was a journalistic disaster during the Benzino years, and a financial nightmare afterwards.. They closed their doors a couple of times too if I recall..
It’s good to see the Source back from a nostalgia point of view, but you are being way too optimistic in thinking they can come back from all that, in this all-too-tough music + publishing climate.
Bye bye Vibe. It’s over, I hate reading a Vibe magazine and now I am reminded why. It’s horrible, the cover, the articles, the feature. The only real and true hip hop magazine alive is The Source. Their back in business and doing it big again!
RIP VIBE
HAPPY B-DAY THE SOURCE