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Rolling Stone (6-month auto-renewal) | 
| Publisher: Wenner Media
Category: Magazine
List Price: $51.85
Buy New: $9.97
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  306 reviews
Sales Rank: 87
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 603333 Months
Issues Per Year: 26
First Issue Lead Time: 4-6 Weeks
ASIN: B002DRBHUU
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Product Description
Rolling Stone magazine is a cultural icon. It's the number one pop culture reference point for 13 million young adults. In addition to its authoritative position in music, Rolling Stone's sphere of influence reaches into entertainment, movies, television, technology, and national affairs. Rolling Stone covers everything that's important, trend-setting, and newsworthy to the thought leaders among young adults.
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 Rolling Stone Blows This Newcomer Away September 5, 2010
Eric Marcuz (REDDING, CA, US)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'll keep it short:
Not the hugest music fan. Never really pay attention to music as it happens, I tend to enjoy it more passively.
That being said, I took the offer for a 6 dollar one year subscription thinking I would see how the mag was.
Turns out my first issue was the one in which Gen. McCrystal basically did some Obama bashing. This article made international headlines
and cost McCrystal his job. YES ROLLING STONE!
Since then I have been absolutely, positively, blown away by their stories. They have covered the gulf spill wonderfully calling out all
the right major players.
I am really enjoying the articles this mag puts out.
On a second note, I am now more into musicians and bands and their stories, than I am the music. The writing is that engaging!
 Is This Playboy?!? August 30, 2010
DanielD
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I hate to sound like the old guy who's a Puritan (I'm not really either), but what's with all the skin? I have young children at home who bring in the mail, and I was shocked to see a nearly nude Katy Perry on the cover (#1111, 8/19) and the next issue featuring three "blood"-splattered nude people on the cover (#1112, 9/2). It seemed like I was receiving Playboy, or at least Maxim.
Once I got past that and into the articles, I was equally disappointed. Granted, I have not really read Rolling Stone in something like 12-15 years, but what happened to your collective writing skills? These have been very disappointing issues and I will not renew.
On a positive note, there have been a couple of good articles. Also, it's great fun to catch up on musicians' happenings via magazine rather than online. All is not lost, but I really expected much more of Rolling Stone magazine. I question their ability to survive if this is the best they can do - and how sad to see Rolling Stone disappear.
 Rolling Stone August 28, 2010
MaryJane (St Simons Island, GA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been an on-off again reader of Rolling Stone for 30 years. It's still a great magazine. But I'm finding some of the feature articles to be a bit of "fluff." I just can't swallow some of these artists (Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, etc.) to be anything more than slick packaged "bubble-gum." To me just the latest Spears. Give me more rock music to believe in!
More than just music August 25, 2010
Stefan Raets (San Diego, CA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Rolling Stone is practically an American institution. While many people think it only focuses on music, there's actually a lot more to be found in the magazine: some of the best movie reviews around, political news, social issues, occasionally book and technology reviews. The music side of the magazine often tends to focus on older and/or more mainstream artists - e.g. you'll always find the latest news and reviews about artists such as Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and so on - think Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artists. There's also plenty of news about younger artists, but if you want to track the newest and/or less mainstream artists, you may also want to check out Spin magazine (I read both) or of course any number of excellent music blogs. The music review section of RS is not as comprehensive as Spin's, but offers a solid selection - plus it's a biweekly magazine rather than monthly, so it makes sense that they'd publish fewer reviews in each issue. I also want to highlight the very high quality of the photography in RS, including some of the most iconic covers in music journalism. One note: RS doesn't try to hide the fact that it's pretty left-leaning in terms of politics, so if that type of political opinion offends your sensibilities, you may want to skip the "National Affairs" section or any of Matt Taibbi's excellent articles. On the other hand, I consider some of their investigative journalism articles must-reads for everyone. If, like me, you're into the history of rock music, check out the RS archive DVD's, which contain scanned, searchable versions of every single page RS has printed in its 40+ year history -- a real treasure trove of information (not included with a subscription, but fairly affordable and highly recommended). RS is one of 3 or 4 magazines I plan to subscribe to for life, and I highly recommend checking it out.
Note: even though the label on this review says I purchased this subscription at Amazon, I actually just took advantage of one of their specials to renew my subscription, which I've had for many years.
I'd forgotten how good the writing is! August 24, 2010
ChiBuds (Chicago)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Our subscription started arriving earlier than we'd expected, so we received the Summer Double Issue #1108/1109. This issue included "The Runaway General", Michael Hastings' now-infamous interview with General Stanley McChrystal, and "BP's Next Disaster", a jaw-dropping report on BP's insanely dangerous plans for Arctic drilling. If these are indicative of the quality of reporting and writing we can expect in future, we'll be more likely to continue our subscription for the articles on sociopolitical issues than for the music reviews!
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