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KW NORTON's avatar

Rolling Stone is now mainstream media. Never thought I would see the day but it is here. RS would never feature Hunter Thompson if he was alive today and certainly not the artwork of Ralph Steadman. I haven't seen them do much with taking on real outlaw country in a meaningful way. I don't think they dare. What you write about what is now classic old rock music is interesting. I work with younger musicians and the older stuff is very highly regarded among them.

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I live in the U.K. and that rack of magazines is familiar as hell - without going into the story, about 15 years ago, I was the editor of a new music mag and got the proverbial bullet in the head by my publisher for putting a new band on the cover. Sales were the same as always but it was the principle of the thing to them - it was different to what all the other mags were doing and standing out isn’t what publishers want. They all want to belong to the thing they believe is selling copies - and you can see why when most adverts are for classic bands from a time that’s never coming back. This is a great article for so many reasons but the saddest of all is that there ARE people who care out there who can also write well but there’s no place for them in the world (not unless you want to write for a credit and a free copy of a magazine).

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