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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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Deliriously close to a pun!
Good job. #jannwenner
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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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"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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[www.urbandictionary.com] #jannwenner
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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.
08/31/09
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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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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[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."