Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 weeks
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 12
Label: Vibe
Magazine Type: Consumer magazine
Manufacturer: Vibe
Number Of Issues: 12
Publisher: Vibe
Release Date: November 23, 2001
Studio: Vibe
Subscription Length: 365 days

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com Review:
Slicker and more uptown than competitors The Source and XXL, Vibe covers hip-hop culture in its many forms. The primary focus, of course, is music, but urban fashion also receives lavish treatment, and each issue contains a least a dash of movies, technology, sports, and politics. Celebrities tend to dominate its well-photographed and well-designed pages, but there's also room for more substantive fare (such as a touching report on "chickenheads"--rap-world groupies--who deserve better than they get from their often-abusive lovers). Covering a culture that is frequently misogynistic and homophobic, Vibe is both women- and gay-friendly, and surprisingly broad in its interpretation of who's cool enough for hip-hop: Elton John (for his Grammy duet with Eminem), maverick senator Jim Jeffords, and Seattle Mariners baseball star Ichiro Suzuki. --Keith Moerer

Product Description:
Vibe, the nation's leading hip-hop magazine, drops the hottest in music, fashion, sports, art, technology and entertainment every month. Connect yourself to the beat of the street and stay one up on urban scenes across the county - NYC, D.C, Chi-town, L.A., Houston, Atlanta, and Miami - from wherever you are.




Rating: - Pop, Pop, Pop Culture
As the traditional print media contiues to lose ground to other news/entertainment sources, the coverage of issues must become more focused on what sells in the marketplace. Simply, the era of cutting-edge reporting in magazines has about run its course.

At one point, Vibe attempted to merge the more puff features of pop culture, with hard news and angles on artists not found in other competitors. But it now mostly relies on the puff over anything else.

Though the magazine ... Read More

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Rating: - Just Isn't Carrying The"Vibe" Like It Used To (Rating: 7 out of 10- -3.5 stars)
I started reading the Vibe magazine back in late '02/ early '03 (which ever issue that had Snoop Dogg's Paid Tha Cost to Be Da Boss as their featured review and gave it a 3.5). Since then Vibe magazine has been one of the three magazines that I consult before I buy an album (the other two were The Source and the XXL). Vibe magazine is good when you want to know whats on your favorite artist's mind for the most part. What I seem to notice is that they interview the same artists over and over again and ... Read More

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Rating: - With No Other Options Available....
The problem with Vibe magazine is that while it proclaims itself to be a partisan of the 'hip-hop' lifestyle, none of the 7 artists it continuously puts on its cover influence that lifestyle. They're all "pop-artists". There was a time when Vibe took chances. Once upon a time, Vibe was the consumate urban mag. Diverse and influential. More and more now, it's looking like a Black version of Tiger Beat. But without any viable alternatives, it's going to have to do.

For now...

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Rating: - Excellent Magazine
This magazine is very accessible when in comes to current music news and also offers alot of others sections as well that are equal interesting. It informs you about upcoming artists as well as established acts.

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Rating: - hhmm....Nope....
I'de have never read Vibe in the first place, but i won a free years subscription in some online contest. And i must also mention i'm a huge fan of hip-hop and hip-hop culture, so i'de think Vibe would be tight.....daamn, was i ever wrong. First off, half the mag is Advertising....then what little reading there is....it's all bullsh**. The interviews they have with artists are totally weak & watered down. They never ask any worthwhile questions. Vibe also contradicts itself constantly. In one issue, ... Read More

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