thanks, rolling stone

Personal to dave q: nice Christgau reference.

Mention of BF in qn gives me another opportunity to plug her live appearance (guest of Stereolab) at RFH on 1 Feb. Go!

Rolling Stone on Queens of the Stone Age "Rated R" (Deluxe Edition)

The record that saved 2000s metal"

stfu, they aren't even metal....good album but gawwwwwwwwwd

Grow up

was kind of hoping this was a whiney revive saying that he got hired at rolling stone

OH WELL

still just a rollingstone.com contributor, I guess

if you expect rs to have an informed or interesting take on metal and are disappointed when they dont, the problem is yours

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/business/rolling-stone-magazine-sale.html?mcubz=0&_r=0

“I love my job, I enjoy it, I’ve enjoyed it for a long time,” said Mr. Wenner, 71. But letting go, he added, was “just the smart thing to do.”

The sale plans were devised by Mr. Wenner’s 27-year-old son, Gus, who has aggressively pared down the assets of Rolling Stone’s parent company, Wenner Media, in response to financial pressures. The Wenners recently sold the company’s other two magazines, Us Weekly and Men’s Journal. And last year, they sold a 49 percent stake in Rolling Stone to BandLab Technologies, a music technology company based in Singapore.

Both Jann and Gus Wenner, the president and chief operating officer of Wenner Media, said they intended to stay on at Rolling Stone. But they said they also recognized that the decision could ultimately be up to the new owner.

i could probably chip in a tenner if we wanna pool some ilx cash and put in a bid

let's buy it and reshuffle the staff so that We Are KING gets a five-star re-review

Speaking of which, I'm gonna miss those five star reviews for Mick Jagger albums.

The only two people I know there will make out fine whatever happens. Haven't read it regularly since the early '80s. The '70s writers, and the record guide, had a large influence on me, and things like this, as inevitable as they may be, always summon a twinge of nostalgia in me when they actually happen.

I have a copy of the naked Lennon / Yoko issue, thinking of selling, but value varies and not sure if worth it.

If it's in really good shape, I'd hang on to it; if it's not, probably won't ever be worth much. (I saved that one too, but I think mine's only in so-so condition.)

Their 500 albums list and their 2004 record guide basically changed my life. I know that's an extremely cliched expression, but those things (esp the record guide) pretty much pushed me down the music-fandom rabbit hole (and im pretty sure lots of other ppl could say the same. yeah the canon sucks and all but it's where so many people started out before they realized there's better songs than Like a Rolling Stone.) So I hold a special place for them, even if the magazine's a total trainwreck.

personally rn what i care about most is if all goes well for rob sheffield. dude's always interesting even when he's praising something that sucks

I think RS is the best magazine money can buy

Basically the same for me, josh az. Their 2003 (2004?) "500 album list" was the first such record guide I ever looked at extensively, so it had a big influence on me initially. I still subscribe but my pile of unread issues is becoming an issue itself.

Amen. Yeah for what it's worth the 500 albums list is at least a pretty good starting guide. You see familiar faces in the beatles and nirvana, but then you go deeper into the book and see some band called My Bloody Valentine that apparently makes music out of "noise" and it's like nothing you've ever heard before.

Speaking of which, I'm gonna miss those five star reviews for Mick Jagger albums.

― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, September 19, 2017 1:31 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LOL!

can someone either (a) tell me where the search is on rs.com or (b) explain to me why there's no search on rs.com ?

They removed it in an effort to make their rockist history unsearchable

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/23/rolling-stone-magazine-culture-council-publication

Rolling Stone magazine is offering “thought leaders” the chance to write for its website if they are willing to pay $2,000 to “shape the future of culture”.

The storied magazine, which has published journalism by writers including Hunter S Thompson, Patti Smith and Tom Wolfe, approached would-be members of its new “Culture Council” by email, telling them that they had the chance to join “an invitation-only community for innovators, influencers and tastemakers”.

Emails seen by the Guardian suggest that those who pass a vetting process – and pay a $1,500 annual fee plus $500 up front – will “have the opportunity to publish original content to the Rolling Stone website”. It suggests that doing so “allows members to position themselves as thought leaders and share their expertise”.

As well as the chance to have their writing published on RollingStone.com, other benefits offered to members include contact with “a vetted network of peers” in their industries and “opportunities to collaborate, cross-pollinate ideas … and even hatch new projects”.

The invitation to possible members says that the scheme is strictly for those in the “worlds of music, entertainment, food, beverage and cannabis”.

New members to recently celebrate passing its vetting process include a fund manager and a Las Vegas real estate broker who also has a business selling alcohol-infused cupcakes.

The PMC spokesperson said: “Rolling Stone does not allow paid content to run as editorial in any context whatsoever. Content created by Culture Council members exists in its own channel separate from editorial content and is clearly labelled as originating from a non-editorial, fee-based member network, which allows industry professionals to share ideas in a paid forum.”

discussed here: Is music journalism really a career for an adult?

do we like it? I'm guessing we don't like it.

This never would’ve happened if Jan Werner were still alive.

Will he have to pay $2,000 to write a five-star review of the next Jagger album?

do we like it? I'm guessing we don't like it.

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu)

New members to recently celebrate passing its vetting process include a fund manager and a Las Vegas real estate broker who also has a business selling alcohol-infused cupcakes.

rock and roll is dead

I believe Owsley Stanley was a Las Vegas real estate broker who also has a business selling alcohol-infused cupcakes for a time.

i would pay $2000 to tell rs to get fucked on their own site.