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| From | Steve Alter <shteevea@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Blow Me, Rolling Stone |
| Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:33:59 -0700 (PDT) |
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RS jumped that shark decades ago, when they did cheesecake shots of Linda Ronstadt when Living in the USA came out; that really was the end of it as a music mag for me. (Not that I had a problem with Linda's cheesecake, I just didn't want to see them there. ;-)) There's still occassionally decent political and music jounalism buried in there, but it is subservient to the mag's pop culture marketing bent.
Mojo is without question the best real music mag, though Q is still OK (gone the way of RS a little bit over the past few years). I also read Harp and Paste regularly, because they cover music I like, but the writing is realllly inconsistent.
As for the Hall, no it's not really a "Rock 'n' Roll" Hall of Fame, and it's a disgrace how many important folks aren't acknowledged while Madge gets in...but I'll just walk past her stuff when I'm there, (Just like I'll walk past Bobby Bond's in Cooperstown.)
Aaron Milenski <amilenski@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Yup. RS stopped being relevant decades ago. > It is to rock journalism what Danielle Steele is to literature.> Give me MOJO any day.
I was in a local bookstore a few years ago looking for the newest issue of Mojo, and the woman who worked there said "yes, a magazine that actually is about music. Look at this!" And she proceeded to show me the display, where the Mojo magazine had a photo of a band with their guitars on the cover and Rolling Stone, Spin and a number of other US "music mags" had half-naked women on the covers.
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