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    11/01/09

    In reply to Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner and Steven Spielberg's Kids' Rock Band
    Gritty and 300 thread count just don't go together. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    In reply to Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner and Steven Spielberg's Kids' Rock Band
    They stick to the Classics, which is promising.
    My hope is they'll get enough buzz to get on the same bill as The Jonas Brothers, then once they're within striking distance backstage, Sasha will go all UFC on the three of them, beating them with a tambourine within an inch of their useless, callow, wasted lives.
    Guz can stand approvingly over the melee, smirking, while strumming a ferocious, acoustic version of I Wanna Be Your Dog. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    In reply to Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner and Steven Spielberg's Kids' Rock Band
    The kids are (merely) alright. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: LOL. The kids are meh. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    In reply to Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner and Steven Spielberg's Kids' Rock Band
    I refuse to hate this. I luv her voice. How does Spielberg have a daughter that can sing? Who is her mommy? #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    In reply to Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner and Steven Spielberg's Kids' Rock Band
    It's better than Nickelback. Let the kids play. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: I agree! I think it's quite impressive. Especially her. She's clearly got a voice worth noticing. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    In reply to Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner and Steven Spielberg's Kids' Rock Band
    "Me and Bobby McGee" sounds like it's from a "rap session" scene from some early '70s TV movie. The only thing missing is Bradford Dillman looking on, eerily.
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    11/01/09

    In reply to Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner and Steven Spielberg's Kids' Rock Band
    "Led Nepotism"

    Deliriously close to a pun!

    Good job. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    In reply to Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner and Steven Spielberg's Kids' Rock Band
    Hmm... She And Him has at least a touch of nepotism working for them too... #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @MyNameIsChris: True, true. The "M" in M. Ward is short for "Montgomery." #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @ShawnP: Ha! #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    In reply to Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner and Steven Spielberg's Kids' Rock Band
    "Dead Flowers" is my all-time favorite RS song ever, for so many reasons.

    These kids did it kind of emo/folkie/womyn's music festival style, which makes it a completely different thing -- not a bad thing, just different.

    See also, "Dear Doctor," which comes next on the celestial RS mixtape. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: True true true. I adore the lyric,

    "Well when you're sitting back, in your rose pink Cadillac
    Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day,
    Ah'll be in my basement room..
    With a needle and a spoon."

    Such adroit social commentary!

    I'm a major Stones fanatic, and I can never decide which is my favorite album--"Sticky Fingers," or "Let it Bleed." I go back and forth.. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: I've always favored "No Expectations" and "Moonlight Mile." #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @snugbug: Let It Bleed. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @MyNameIsChris: Yep. Hard to argue with "Gimme Shelter." #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @snugbug: Scorsese would surely agree. It's a great song. My personal favorite on the record is the title track, but there's really not a bad song in the bunch. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @ShawnP: Yes, "Moonlight Mile" has to be on the shortlist. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: You're on to something here. I really like the idea of making emo/folkie/womyn's music festival style its own Grammy category. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @lionboy: All of LedZep (which I can't stand) in that style would be a vast improvement. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @ShawnP: Oh, yeah. And some songs on "Some Girls." #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @ShawnP: Moonlite Mile raaaaaaawks. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @snugbug: All of the above, plus the parts of "Some Girls" that aren't misogynist and racist. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    In reply to Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner and Steven Spielberg's Kids' Rock Band
    Townes Van Zandt's cover of Dead Flowers is the only one that matters. It's in the Big Lebowski. The song requires a degree of believable pathos in the singer, or else it doesn't work. After all, this song is about being poor, alienated, and heroin-addicted. It's really bizarre to see privileged ego-vacuums trying to ape the artists that (hypocritically or not) consciously positioned themselves AGAINST such entrenched privilege. Ironically, the history of Rolling Stone magazine neatly encapsulates this cruel circle. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    In reply to Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner and Steven Spielberg's Kids' Rock Band
    Robert Christgau probably would work in a Medeski, Martin and Wood reference before and after he peed. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    In reply to Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner and Steven Spielberg's Kids' Rock Band
    Meh. They took all the fun out of "Dead Flowers." That's why the Stones don't make for good covers. Everyone wants to take them seriously when they were always tongue-in-cheek. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @Airvault: Yeah, right? I always feel like "Wild Horses" was sung with a smirk. I don't think Keith Richards even knows what a horse is. #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @Foster Kamer: Oh, he knows what horse is, but a horse...well that's a different story.

    [www.urbandictionary.com] #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @Foster Kamer: Oh, but it was Mick who wrote 'em lyrics to "Wild Horses.." And that "Wild horses couldn't drag me away" chorus verse was allegedly precisely what Marianne Faithfull said to Mick when she woke up from a suicide attempt coma spurred on by Mick being a mega-dick to her. At least that's what olde Marianne recounts in her autobiography, Faithfull.. (A fine, supremely entertaining read, btw.) #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @Foster Kamer: Although... #jannwenner
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    11/01/09

    @Foster Kamer: Keith doesn't know what a horse is, but he knows quite well what Horse is. #jannwenner
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    08/31/09

    In reply to Rolling Stone Finally Taking Late, Doomed Shot At RollingStone.com
    I subscribe to at least a half dozen magazines and I've subscribed to Rolling Stone for about 30 years, but other than to follow a "more info" thing in the text, to change my address or to quickly access a back article for online attribution, I don't know that I've ever visited the website for a magazine, I receive.

    OK, I take that back... RollingStone.com did used to have the most readily available copy of the "Imagine" video before YouTube and I've pointed toward it numerous times, but I really don't think I'd like it, if the website were to try and replace the magazine. As with all my subscriptions, but especially Rolling Stone, I actually look forward to getting my hard copy in the mail and have a ritual about reading it.

    US Weekly is just a gossip rag and it's understandable that they have better traffic; their competition is online, there's lots of blogs linking to gossip and the text is just a lot of blurbs. Rolling Stone, Playboy, Vanity Fair, etc are lifestyle publications; They have devoted readerships, long-form articles and all of their websites are suffering online.
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    08/31/09

    @Magister:
    IOW: Like pretty much everyone else, I read almost every word of every Rolling Stone, but we're not going to do that online. No amount of "engagement" is going to change this fact and unless the "engagement" is going to be separate animal, disconnected from the offline content, then I don't see a reason for them to worry too much more than their stated goal of bringing site management in-house.

    Online ads don't pay as well as offline and though there's been a noticable advertising slump (not as many fashion ads), I'm sure the offline situation is temporary and an ad-free Twitter feed isn't going to add anything toward the bottom line.
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    08/30/09

    In reply to Rolling Stone Finally Taking Late, Doomed Shot At RollingStone.com
    Wait, Foster -- THAT'S the cover you chose to illustrate this story? Is this a "nerd alert!" situation?
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    08/31/09

    @allyzay: Well, it did catch my attention.
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    08/31/09

    @NerD!!! - R.O.A.C.H.: Caught my attention too-- Because I drew all that scary movie type back when I was working there. That cover was in my portfolio for quite some time.
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    09/01/09

    @ejs2000: It's one of my favorite covers. That's why I chose it. Somewhere, there's a picture of my ceiling in 9th grade. It was covered wall to wall with my favorite Rolling Stone covers. Believe me, if there's a publication going to shit that breaks my heart more than any other, it's RS. Nice work!
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    08/30/09

    In reply to Rolling Stone Finally Taking Late, Doomed Shot At RollingStone.com
    He needs to talk to the person who decided to put the Jonas Brothers on the cover, twice within a year.

    I can take the Beatles cover even if the article is rehashing the same bullshit, it primarily takes from John's interview when he was out of his head on smack and angry. I love how the author completely ignores the fact that John in later years said he lied through his teeth during that interview.

    Plus, it would be nice if R.S. would for once focus on the fact that John and Paul made up, but I guess hating each other is better copy.

    The Rolling Stone website is a mess. I think one of the most ridiculous things is that Rolling Stone a MUSIC MAGAZINE rarely if ever breaks new music news. It's pathetic that People Magazine can beat them to the punch.
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    08/31/09

    @goldenslumbers: "Last August, the Jonas Brothers issue sold 151,160 copies off the newsstand, above the magazine's 125,000 average, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation's Rapid Report. It was the fourth best seller of the year for the biweekly."

    [www.observer.com]

    Another huge newsstand issue this year? The Adam Lambert coming-out issue.

    And again, RS *does* break music news. (Like the aforementioned Adam Lambert story -- which was probably one of the biggest non-death music-related stories this year as far as garnering public interest.) But a) music is pretty sprawling, probably much more so than any other popular art form, which guarantees that any news it breaks won't be of vital importance to everyone; and b) music news is rarely important enough to a wide swath of the populace to warrant being "broken."
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