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 Post subject: Precisely WHEN Did Rolling Stone Magazine Start To Sell-out?
PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 2:28 am 
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Taylor Swift on the cover a couple of weeks ago. Today I open my mailbox and what do I see on the cover of the newest issue but The JONAS BROTHERS? WTF?? What the hell happened to this crap magazine? Is their target audience 14 year old girls now because they alienated and lost their core readership? I'm getting it free now and I still feel ripped off.


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 2:46 am 
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I think they sold out with their first issue--on the cover was one of those pretty boys from one of those boy bands who was attempting to be an actor in some movie that pretty much nobody ever wound up seeing.


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 3:26 am 
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They've often had cheesy artists on the cover for at least the last 10 years. There's still usually a few good music articles & excellent political reporting; they may have the JB's on the cover, but there's an indictment of Goldman Sachs inside that no one else is reporting.

In fact all the way back to Karen Silkwood, RS has tended to break stories of corruption that oddly no one does anything about (Silkwood being an exception) AND they don't get sued for libel.

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When Jann and Company moved from San Francisco to NYC in 1977


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When they started taking ads from the Army


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:48 am 
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The mag started selling out in the mid-1980's and then when Jann started personally doing "special" 5 star reviews (see Mick Jagger) it lost all credibility.

Although I'm poroud to say that my cousin is married to Howard Kohn who wrote the Silkwood piece!

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Not a joke. I was looking through an issue in the crapper the other day, and was halfway through before I realized that I wasn't reading People magazine.


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For me, it was when they put Vanilla Ice on the cover.

Speaking of RS, the new issue just came in. There's an article about Gregg Allman inside, but the Jonas Brothers got the cover. I feel like I'm reading Teen Beat again.

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I'll have to bring my new copy with me to the pool in Vegas. With the Jonas Bros on the cover, I'll look hip to the chicks. :)

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I'll have to bring my new copy with me to the pool in Vegas. With the Jonas Bros on the cover, I'll look hip to the chicks. :)


Riiight. :?

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Beats having CSNY on the cover. :D

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Personally, I think that Goldman Sachs article should be required reading in both high school & College sociology & Economics classes.

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There is usually one good article in each RS issue. I still get it after all these years.

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I've always disliked Rolling Stone and never understood how they became the printed "voice" of Rock. Seems like they just gave themselves that title and ran with it. You'll never see articles on any band /artists they deem is no longer hip/cool/worthy. I honestly haven't read it more than a handful of time in my life and not since High School so it would be unfair of me to rip it now, but with the Jonas Bros. on the new cover and the cover with the two bimbos eating ice cream I'll do it anyway-Rolling Stone blows.

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The sad thing is, like Geff says, they'll usually have at least one decent article inside, but the blatant selling-out of these covers takes away from that.


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The sold out when they starting hating progressive rock, after championing it only a couple of years before.

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They sold out by not standing by their earlier negative reviews of bands that later went on to be important, like Nirvana and Queen.


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:41 pm 
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Steve wrote:
They sold out by not standing by their earlier negative reviews of bands that later went on to be important, like Nirvana and Queen.

Don't forget Led Zeppelin--they hated Zeppelin up until about 1988 or so.


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The sold out when they starting hating progressive rock, after championing it only a couple of years before.

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That's a big one right there.

Rolling Stone is a fashion magazine for music. They'll tell you to wear your skirt at a certain length, and then two years later they'll chastise you for having dressed that way.

I remember a point in the 80's when Rolling Stone made the claim that the California Rock that carried the 70's was no longer considered to be Rock and Roll. No Hotel California, no Ronstadt, no Jackson Brown... Then a few years later, there the Eagles are in one of their "Best Rock" polls.


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They sold out by not standing by their earlier negative reviews of bands that later went on to be important, like Nirvana and Queen.

Don't forget Led Zeppelin--they hated Zeppelin up until about 1988 or so.

I thought that was Lester Bangs in Creem?

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Geff R. wrote:
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Steve wrote:
They sold out by not standing by their earlier negative reviews of bands that later went on to be important, like Nirvana and Queen.

Don't forget Led Zeppelin--they hated Zeppelin up until about 1988 or so.

I thought that was Lester Bangs in Creem?

Well, check the above post--in the 70's they were all about the California soft-rock, folk-rock thing. Then came MTV, and cover stories about Billy Idol and Cyndi Lauper et. al.

In the early 90's they were really starting to show their age--they were devoting covers to McCartney, Clapton, Rod Stewart, etc. when grunge sort of took them by surprise.

In other words, for a magazine that has been panstakingly hipper-than-thou over they years, all they've really done is follow trends, rather than set them.

I bought that Rolling Stone DVD box on the bargain shelf at Barnes & Noble for about twenty-five bucks, and sent in the card for the free subscription. I thought after a year the magazine would stop coming, but it was a bitch getting them to stop sending it--apparently I needed to tell them to cancel to stop them from automatically renewing the subscription (and after a few phone calls, they finally assured me that I would not be billed for the extra five or six issues that they sent me.)


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by Jennifer Lawinski
Posted Dec 4th 2009 4:30PM
http://www.slashfood.com/2009/12/04/rol ... restaurant


When you think Rolling Stone, the first thing that comes to mind isn't usually food.

But the iconic music magazine is hoping to leverage some of its cool cache with the launch of the first Rolling Stone restaurant in Los Angeles, planned to open in the Hollywood and Highland Center -- down the block from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Grauman's Chinese Theater and the Kodak Theatre.

The multi-level 10,000-square foot venue will be host a bar, restaurant, lounge and private-event space. The decor will try to evoke the magazine's edgy style with exposed black brick, tufted leather and vaulted ceilings around an antique iron staircase. The restaurant is slated to open in summer 2010.

No word yet, however, on what kind of grub the Rolling Stone will dish up or on who may be cooking it.

The new Rolling Stone venue is the brain child of developer Lucky Rug Group, run by Niall Donnelly and Joe Altounian and Rolling Stone editor and publisher Jann S. Wenner.

"We've been looking for the ideal opportunity to expand the Rolling Stone brand for some time," Wenner said in a statement. "Southern California and the city of Los Angeles are deeply entrenched in the history of both Rolling Stone and rock music, and we're excited to bring to life Rolling Stone magazine in Hollywood through what will be a very special place."

Donnelly hopes to bring the magazine to life.

"We are both excited and determined to bring the spirit of the magazine to life – the edginess, the coolness, the classiness and the timelessness – in making this venue a place to see and be seen in," developer Donnelly said in a statement.

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