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rock-critically correct
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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"Rolling Stone" Gets (Somewhat Predictably) Vocal
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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the sex, the drugs, the stars, the shocking truth
Rolling Stone published its official review of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy today, and reading it made me think to that day some two and a half years ago when Spin, ever the prankster, tried to pull an April Fool's joke by running a Chuck Klosterman-penned review of Axl's magnum opus, despite it being only sort of close to finished at that time. So I decided to read both reviews back-to-back, and what I saw—well, it inspired me to give all of you a little test. Can you tell David Fricke's real album review from the one that was written with tongue in cheek? Let's find out!
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"Chinese Democracy": The Reviews Are (And Were) In
Rolling Stone published its official review of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy today, and reading it made me think to that day some two and a half years ago when Spin, ever the prankster, tried to pull an April Fool's joke by running a Chuck Klosterman-penned review of Axl's magnum opus, despite it being only sort of close to finished at that time. So I decided to read both reviews back-to-back, and what I saw—well, it inspired me to give all of you a little test. Can you tell David Fricke's real album review from the one that was written with tongue in cheek? Let's find out!
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lol words
Most critics have a love-hate relationship with album reviews. On the one hand, they're an absurdly limiting format, forcing you to find things to say about albums you don't care about, limiting your thoughts on albums you do care about, and requiring a bottom-line consumer reccomendation that might not really encapsulate your honest feelings. On the other hand, in these hard times for music scribes, record reviews are the one unique service we can provide that the public always seems to want. Which is why it seems crazy that Alernative Press was considering removing album reviews from its print edition.
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"Alternative Press" Considers Cutting Review Section, Eating Own Shoe For Dinner
Most critics have a love-hate relationship with album reviews. On the one hand, they're an absurdly limiting format, forcing you to find things to say about albums you don't care about, limiting your thoughts on albums you do care about, and requiring a bottom-line consumer reccomendation that might not really encapsulate your honest feelings. On the other hand, in these hard times for music scribes, record reviews are the one unique service we can provide that the public always seems to want. Which is why it seems crazy that Alernative Press was considering removing album reviews from its print edition.
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rock-critically correct
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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Sizing Up The Slimmed-Down "Rolling Stone"
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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pointless listmaking
Listicles, By The Numbers
Yesterday, I came across a recent interview with Amanda Petrusich, the author of the new It Still Moves, in which she basically nails the conundrum facing music writing today. Take it away, Amanda and questioner:
More »RD: Being largely a writer for print, what is your stance on blogs?
AP: I read a ton of blogs, every day. I think the onus is really on print magazines to step up the game. They’ve got to do stuff blogs can’t or won’t or don’t want to do – long, thoughtfully researched articles with lots of access that take months to write – in order to stay alive. But they just keep printing … lists.
rock-critically correct
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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"Rolling Stone" Puts Its Horns Up One More Time
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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shrinkage
Mailboxes and newsstands will feel a little emptier come Oct. 17, when a slimmed-down version of Rolling Stone hits the newsstands. The magazine's dimensions will be shrunk down from its current 10" by 11 3/4 real estate to the standard 8"ish by 11"ish size used by most magazines. It'll also use glossier paper and be perfect-bound on the side, no doubt so various Mick Jagger aphorisms can run up and down the spine. (Might I suggest "I am in the basement / Looking for the truth" for new issue No. 1?) How does founder and publisher Jann Wenner feel about all this? He's trying to put a brave face on it: "All you're getting from that large size is nostalgia," he told the Times, although he did admit that he was "kind of torn about" the change. But is that really the only difference? Let's look at the photographic comparison of the two covers that was helpfully supplied by the Times and a stubbled, familiar-looking spokesmodel:
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"Rolling Stone" To Shed A Little Of Its Page Width
Mailboxes and newsstands will feel a little emptier come Oct. 17, when a slimmed-down version of Rolling Stone hits the newsstands. The magazine's dimensions will be shrunk down from its current 10" by 11 3/4 real estate to the standard 8"ish by 11"ish size used by most magazines. It'll also use glossier paper and be perfect-bound on the side, no doubt so various Mick Jagger aphorisms can run up and down the spine. (Might I suggest "I am in the basement / Looking for the truth" for new issue No. 1?) How does founder and publisher Jann Wenner feel about all this? He's trying to put a brave face on it: "All you're getting from that large size is nostalgia," he told the Times, although he did admit that he was "kind of torn about" the change. But is that really the only difference? Let's look at the photographic comparison of the two covers that was helpfully supplied by the Times and a stubbled, familiar-looking spokesmodel:
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this is an s.o.s.
The Jonas Brothers! They're everywhere, and they're going to be in even more places very soon, what with their recent booking on the MTV Video Music Awards and their Tiger Beat-ready mugs gracing the cover of the new Rolling Stone. (Nice that the editors gave a tip of the hat to last year's Efron shirt-tug in the cover photo.) Now, obviously we've been covering the boys' ascent since they first got sucked into Disney's pop machine. So why is there something about all this JB love that seems a little, well, weird, even though it's synced to the Aug. 12 release of their next album, A Little Bit Longer?
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Everybody Wants A Piece Of The Jonas Brothers' Action
The Jonas Brothers! They're everywhere, and they're going to be in even more places very soon, what with their recent booking on the MTV Video Music Awards and their Tiger Beat-ready mugs gracing the cover of the new Rolling Stone. (Nice that the editors gave a tip of the hat to last year's Efron shirt-tug in the cover photo.) Now, obviously we've been covering the boys' ascent since they first got sucked into Disney's pop machine. So why is there something about all this JB love that seems a little, well, weird, even though it's synced to the Aug. 12 release of their next album, A Little Bit Longer?
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Take heart, those of you who fear the imminent demise of the era where people read about music on stapled-and-printed pages: Seven music-related periodicals have made the short list of the Chicago Tribune's annual "50 Best Magazines" list. They are: the Baroque-centric bimonthly Goldberg; the classical mag Gramophone; the indie bible Magnet; the Metropolitan Opera's house organ Opera News; the still-hanging-in-there Rolling Stone, which gets points for its access and being nicer than Pitchfork; and the home-recording obsessives' guide Tape Op. And, um, the NME, which I guess does hold its own in the "soldiering on breathlessly despite the facts being in the way sometimes" department. [Chicago Tribune]
rock-critically correct
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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"Rolling Stone" Finally Embraces Rush
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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awwwk-ward
Is Conde Nast Looking To Enter The Music-Magazine Business?
Watch as Charlie Rose casually drops Vanity Fair bigwig Graydon Carter and Rolling Stone honcho Jann Wenner, "What's this story that, uh... Conde Nast wants to buy Rolling Stone?" into a conversation about Hunter S. Thompson. If only Carter had been drinking from his complimentary glass of water at that moment—we would have seen the greatest spit-take ever. Instead, we just see him looking really surprised and angry, and mentally taking Rose off any reservation lists at the Waverly Inn. I suspect that this 30-second clip cut by Gawker (and noticed by Folio) will quickly become the Zapruder film of media machinations on this slow Friday, so, y'know, have at it. (And send any tips to the the normal address, of course.) [Folio via Gawker]
go on, nbc, dust your glasses off
Anyone wondering why Today would bother to ask "what is Rolling Stone's fascination with Barack Obama?" discovers just how unfamiliar NBC News must be with the gritty street culture promoted by the magazine when a picture of rapper Joe "Pump It Up" Budden appears at 1:20, alongside a mention of former Def Jam CEO and 60 Minutes subject Jay-Z. Ironic, as you'd think it'd be much harder to find a photo of Joe Budden. The narrator seems to finds the tastes and opinions of this Obama fellow (he likes rap... but doesn't like the naughty lyrics!) perplexing throughout the piece, so maybe we should just be glad they didn't show John Legend when describing Obama's love for Steve Wonder. [TVNewservia Nah Right]
"Today" Can't Remember What Jay-Z Looks Like
Anyone wondering why Today would bother to ask "what is Rolling Stone's fascination with Barack Obama?" discovers just how unfamiliar NBC News must be with the gritty street culture promoted by the magazine when a picture of rapper Joe "Pump It Up" Budden appears at 1:20, alongside a mention of former Def Jam CEO and 60 Minutes subject Jay-Z. Ironic, as you'd think it'd be much harder to find a photo of Joe Budden. The narrator seems to finds the tastes and opinions of this Obama fellow (he likes rap... but doesn't like the naughty lyrics!) perplexing throughout the piece, so maybe we should just be glad they didn't show John Legend when describing Obama's love for Steve Wonder. [TVNewservia Nah Right]
Is Rolling Stone preparing on launching a "Perez Hilton-esque" music blog—with "look at me and all the famous people I drink with" correspondent Austin Scaggs as figurehead, and six unpaid interns who will reportedly "have to work 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday" doing the actual legwork—within the next month or so? And what on earth might "Perez Hilton-esque" mean in the context of RS, anyway? Will Scaggs be photographed on red carpets wearing shower caps and ill-fitting hoodies? Is minimal competence at MS Paint required of the interns? The mind reels. [Gawker]
corporate t-shirts still suck
If you're an aging baby boomer who enjoys clothing that you think might give you some cultural credibility, Macy's and Rolling Stone are teaming up to bring the conspicuous back into conspicuous consumption.
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Totally Irrelevant Magazines: The T-Shirt Edition
If you're an aging baby boomer who enjoys clothing that you think might give you some cultural credibility, Macy's and Rolling Stone are teaming up to bring the conspicuous back into conspicuous consumption.
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rock-critically correct
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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"Rolling Stone" Picks Up Its Well-Worn Six-String
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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rock-critically correct
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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"Rolling Stone" Flies With The Eagles
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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180s
Anyone with a working knowledge of The Hills and Don Henley & Co. can feel free to draw parallels between each of the individual cover subjects of Rolling Stone's last two issues; me, I'm just going to wonder what demographic Jann Wenner et al are going to pander to next time out. Maybe this guy?
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"Rolling Stone" Tries To Wash That "Hills" Cover From Its Offended Readers' Memories
Anyone with a working knowledge of The Hills and Don Henley & Co. can feel free to draw parallels between each of the individual cover subjects of Rolling Stone's last two issues; me, I'm just going to wonder what demographic Jann Wenner et al are going to pander to next time out. Maybe this guy?
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