The Modern Age

According to reports published in WWD today, The Strokes have gotten into a tiff over money with Wenner Media over their compensation fee for playing Rolling Stone’s 1,000 issue celebration next week. It is rumored that Wenner originally made a verbal agreement for an undisclosed sum to the rock ‘n’ rollers but have since scaled [...]

New York, Neewwww Yoooorrrkk!
Did you catch the New York Times Web site redesign that launched this morning? Only thing is, doesn’t it kinda look suspiciously similar to the New York magazine site redesign which happened earlier this year? Hmmm…
Well in the New York Times‘ defense, redesigns take a very long time (According to Leonard Apcar, [...]

Just when you thought Nick Zinner was the only guitarist that was going to stick it to his critics this week, the king of hating journos and the ‘Net has returned to upstage him. Yes, that’s right, it’s the incorrigible Jack White! Check out the hate spew posted on the WS site yesterday:
What a funny [...]

Please vote for Jacob Goodman in ElleGirl!’s “Last Guy Standing” contest, who is our friend Lizzie’s younger bro. The winner gets 10k, none of which will go to me. I mean, who else are you going to vote for, the freaking “vegetarian/DJ” guy? Puullleassseee.

According to WWD, San Francisco-based publisher Tom Hartle may not have sealed the deal with purchasing SPIN quite yet, but that hasn’t stopped him from quietly offering jobs to fill up his magazine.
Word is that Hartle is looking to tap former Blender editor in chief Andy Pemberton for the top position at the mag and [...]

Ohmigod! I just found out about this cool new thing. It’s called “blogging.” It’s like the hottest thing ever. I just read about it on this thing called the “internet“!
All kidding aside, I just saw this right now. New York magazine’s newest issue takes on “The Blog Establishment.” It’s a lengthy article by Clive Thompson [...]

The cover of the March 2006 issue of Teen Vogue (MY FAVORITE MAGAZINE) has the BEST headline: “Copycat Friends: Is someone stealing your style?” This is the best attempt I’ve seen of adding sophistication to a 1st-Grade school yard conflict. “I’m telling! Stacey’s copying my outfits again! She’s not playing nice!” Teen Vogue, can you [...]

Is this Vanity Fair cover really necessary? Tom Ford, Kiera Knightley, and Scarlett Johansson look like weird, blue-toned mutants in this photo. They all look like they’ve been Photoshopped within an inch of their lives. Kiera and Scarlett look particularly pasty, and Scarlett’s body looks kinda pear-shaped. And why the hell does Tom Ford get [...]

So there’s been a lot of buzz about the “new” Jane, under the direction of Brandon “Don’t Let the Name Fool You–I’m Not a Man” Holley, who replaced founding editor (and the magazine’s namesake) the legendary Jane Pratt in August of last year. The March 2006 mag is the first issue to reveal Holley’s entire [...]

Has anyone else noticed how beefed up SPIN.com has become over the last year? It’s gone from a sorry excuse of a Web site to a frequently updated spot with web exclusive reviews and articles, videoclips, and mobile content. Granted, you can’t view a page on their site without being attacked by about 5 different [...]