that magazine should be ashamed of how crap they have become. they barely even have anything music related in it any more. i hate when non musicians are on the cover.

dancerella said:

yes particularly when it's Tom Cruise or other actor, yech!

To me, they still conduct the occasaional good interview (who said that about airports? I buy one almost every time I fly!), but they're like the old Santa looking hippies here on Telegraph Avenue, holding onto something long gone, and at the same time grasping at the worst of the new.

While we're on the subject, what is the best music magazine?

dancerella said:

yes particularly when it's Tom Cruise or other actor, yech!

To me, they still conduct the occasaional good interview (who said that about airports? I buy one almost every time I fly!), but they're like the old Santa looking hippies here on Telegraph Avenue, holding onto something long gone, and at the same time grasping at the worst of the new.

While we're on the subject, what is the best music magazine?

dancerella said:

yes particularly when it's Tom Cruise or other actor, yech!

To me, they still conduct the occasaional good interview (who said that about airports? I buy one almost every time I fly!), but they're like the old Santa looking hippies here on Telegraph Avenue, holding onto something long gone, and at the same time grasping at the worst of the new.

While we're on the subject, what is the best music magazine?

I think RS is a'ight. The political articles are more interesting to me, but I dont place much stock in their music coverage. Blender is a cool mag.Like Sextonseven said, its straight music, no pretense of anything else. I used to buy import mags, but now they're like $10.00 an issue, and thats not happening in my world anytime soon(unless they package it w/a kick-ass free sample cd)

unkemptpueblo said:

same here...unless it's a full tribute issue dedicated to someone i like (i.e., the bowie specials that seem to come out every other year) or unless it has a cool bonus CD comp, i can't justify 10 bucks for a magazine.

...alTHOUGH, i DID pay ten bucks just to read the kate bush interview in mojo a couple years back...

I will say I read some really funny writing in RS, even now.

I like Q & Mojo okay. At least they're basically devoted to music, unlike RS. I don't read these mags as much as I used to, though. Pretty much only if a cover catches my eye (and not just because a hot girl is on it!)

I haven't realy checked out Blender. I thought that was like FHM?

NDRU said:

i used to swear by the british music magazines - Q, uncut and mojo - but these days, i think even the brit rags have gotten lamer. still better than american music magazines, though.

So, what's the reason for the magazines decline? Change of ownership, creative director, etc, or just a sign o' the times about the entertainment industry in general?

oh, and this is the most deliciously heinous, shameless, ludicruous example of rolling stone's whoredom:

http://www.rollingstone.c...he_doorway

the FIVE STAR review of mick jagger's "goddess in the doorway"...written by jann wenner!

Anx said:

"but he lets his guard down to an unprecedented degree on Goddess; the beautiful ballads draw on feelings of loneliness, vulnerability, spiritual yearning and, as always, life with the ladies"


While we're on this dissing vibe, anyone else think Greil Marcus is shit as well? And that bloke who's Gary Gilmore's brother. In fact, anyone who makes a career out of kissing the collective anuses of Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Lennon, Presley, the Stones and the Clash. I like the music of these as much as anyone, but the grimer wormtongue style journalism makes me vom
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been that way for quite a while now

pkidwell said:

since '75 when they rated
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
one of the worst albums of that year

but I'm no Joni expert so what do I know?

DirtyChris said:

'hissing of summer lawns' is one of the few joni albums i love from beginning to end. i think they were in a bad mood that issue or something.