Grow up
― hold me, thrill me, kiss me, lil b (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 29 August 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
was kind of hoping this was a whiney revive saying that he got hired at rolling stone
OH WELL
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 29 August 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
still just a rollingstone.com contributor, I guess
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 29 August 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
if you expect rs to have an informed or interesting take on metal and are disappointed when they dont, the problem is yours
― markers, Sunday, 29 August 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 September 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
i could probably chip in a tenner if we wanna pool some ilx cash and put in a bid
― Mr. Eulon Mask, urging the UN to ban the "homicide robot" (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 18 September 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
let's buy it and reshuffle the staff so that We Are KING gets a five-star re-review
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 18 September 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
Speaking of which, I'm gonna miss those five star reviews for Mick Jagger albums.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 01:31 (six years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 02:03 (six years ago) link
I have a copy of the naked Lennon / Yoko issue, thinking of selling, but value varies and not sure if worth it.
― calstars, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 02:12 (six years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 02:18 (six years ago) link
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.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 04:22 (six years ago) link
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
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 04:24 (six years ago) link
I think RS is the best magazine money can buy
― niels, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 13:59 (six years ago) link
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.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
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.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 03:07 (six years ago) link
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
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, September 19, 2017 1:31 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
LOL!
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
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 ?
― alpine static, Friday, 9 March 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link
They removed it in an effort to make their rockist history unsearchable
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 9 March 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link
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.”
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.”
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 January 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
discussed here: Is music journalism really a career for an adult?
― You have treated my messenger with contempt. (morrisp), Sunday, 24 January 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link
do we like it? I'm guessing we don't like it.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 January 2021 22:16 (three years ago) link
This never would’ve happened if Jan Werner were still alive.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 25 January 2021 12:47 (three years ago) link
Will he have to pay $2,000 to write a five-star review of the next Jagger album?
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 25 January 2021 13:30 (three years ago) link
do we like it? I'm guessing we don't like it.― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu)
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 January 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
rock and roll is dead
― Left, Monday, 25 January 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link
I believe Owsley Stanley was a Las Vegas real estate broker who also has a business selling alcohol-infused cupcakes for a time.
― clemenza, Monday, 25 January 2021 18:01 (three years ago) link
i would pay $2000 to tell rs to get fucked on their own site.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 25 January 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link