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"Vibe" Jerks Between The Past And The Present 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 a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Vibe: At the conclusion of his assessment of the July Vibe last month, Keyboard Krybaby asked whether something was distracting the magazine's EIC, Danyel Smith, and her staff. Based on the August issue, which in current parlance could charitably be described as a "hot mess," his question still stands. Before he jumps into the specifics regarding the exceptionally poor packaging extant, he should mention that this particular issue, "The Real Rap Issue," is the first in the mag's history in which... [read full story]
