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. More »
Anyone wondering why Today would bother to ask “what is Rolling Stone’s fascination with Barack Obama?” More »
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… More »
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… More »
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.
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:
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:
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?
Ah, trend stories, the bane of every journalistic enterprise. On the one hand, they are handy for editors who want to know what “the kids” who will be taking their jobs and houses are up to. On the other hand, they’re generally vacuous glosses on subjects that are way too surface-gleaning to even be called “superficial.” Greg Sandoval at CNet took the world of “music blogging” under his trend-story wing this morning, and if nothing else it’s a primer in how not to tackle this admittedly knotty, yet way too often completely misunderstood subject. Five anti-lessons after the jump.
One would think that RS’ head honchos would have held the $25k-a-throw hooker story for pairing with the inevitable Ashley Alexandra Dupre cover, but I guess desperate times call for desperate measures. More »
