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| From | "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Blow Me, Rolling Stone |
| Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:53:24 -0400 |
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Harp and Paste.
Now "Harp's" the one that grows from the bottom of the cave, and "Paste's"
the one that grows from the top, right?
I can never tell the difference ...
My vote's with Mojo as the best all-around rock mag, though I would like
them to declare a 12-month Beatles/Dylan moratorium.
john micek
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Alter" <shteevea@yahoo.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: Blow Me, Rolling Stone
> 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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