With so many magazines going under lately, I can’t help but think that print media is dying. Of course, as a blogger, my thoughts on print media are somewhere along these lines, but it’s truly disheartening to see another music magazine fall victim to the times and current economy. Ology partner The ZRO Hour brings us their thoughts on Vibe Magazine. VIBE magazine, the urban-music magazine founded in 1993 by Quincy Jones, ceased operations today due to the recession. From The New York Times: Word was broken early this afternoon by the Web sitedailyfinance.com and spread to other music and media news sites. The spokeswoman, Tracy Nguyen, said the Vibe staff would be formally notified in a meeting at 2 p.m. She said she did not know how many people would be laid off as a result of the closure. The closure of Vibe leaves just two large-circulation music magazines, XXL and The Source, focusing on hip-hop and R&B. The Source has had its own troubles, going through a...

It’s been a few days of intense Michael Jackson coverage all over the Internet, and it has been a bit of a sensory overload. But, I can’t help but share these moving pictures with you. Auditory Threshold was at the historic Apollo Theater on June 25 where hundreds came together to mourn the loss of a legendary musician. Music has the power to bring an entire community together, and it’s one of the reasons why we as human beings are so drawn to it. Today was truly a sad day for music fans around the world, as one of the most gifted and successful entertainers died tragically at the age of 50. Michael Jackson, who lived his entire life in the spotlight, was as enormously influential as he was controversial. Despite his flaws, his excess, and his troubled inner being, Michael will always foremost be remembered as the King of Pop, a peerless talent in a sea of pretenders. The following photos were taken earlier this evening near the Apollo Theater, where hundreds...

Since none of our readers live in caves, you will have heard by now that Michael Jackson died of apparent cardiac arrest this afternoon. Jackson was many things–some of them unusual, some of them awful–but he was, at his best, one of the two or three greatest entertainers of the 20th century. I’ll leave Mimi to weigh in on this more tomorrow, but I was struck by the MJ fans who flew out of the woodwork on my facebook feed, an outpouring of love among friends and acquantences that I  would have never expected. As for myself, I didn’t know the man (and, for all the surgeries and bleachings, a man he was), and I don’t know how to feel about his passing–or even whether I should feel anything in particular about his passing. But it is clear that millions, and millions (and millions and millions) of people do feel strongly about the King of Pop’s death. Fans spontaneously gathered in droves from LA to New York to mourn a person they never met. My...