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Rolling Stone (1-year) | 
| Publisher: Wenner Media
Category: Magazine
List Price: $117.00
Buy New: $19.97
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  307 reviews
Sales Rank: 58
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 26
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 26
First Issue Lead Time: 4-6 Weeks
ASIN: B00005N7SJ
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Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Who Reads Rolling Stone?
Rolling Stone is written for a reader who’s interested in entertainment, including music, movies, television, technology, and national affairs. It combines its significant entertainment reviews with cultural and social commentary, featuring articles on politics, celebrities, and more.
What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
- Rock & Roll: The latest music news on those who continue to rock us.
- Smoking Section: In-depth, exclusive looks at the rock star lifestyle.
- Random Notes: A photo collage of who's who in the music biz, and what they're up to.
- Breaking: A look at the hottest new artists, or old artists with something new.
- Charts: Billboard's top ten, iTunes top ten, local favorites, and the top 40 albums at issue release.
- Reviews: Star-rated reviews of new releases, across all media.
Past Issues: Special Issues Through the Year: - Spring Music and Festivals Preview: From indie rockers to the year’s best bands, Rolling Stone’s "more than a sneak-peak" look at the season’s most anticipated releases and music festivals.
- The Best of Rock: What band has the best drummer? Who puts on the best show? What’s the best online music service? A useful guide to the best that music has to offer.
- Live Issue: Mapping out the best places to experience live music from coast to coast--must-see tours, festivals and more.
- Fall Fashion/10 Bands to Watch: The latest must-have looks that will rock fall fashion, plus profiles of the most hype-worthy bands.
- Year in Review: The best moments of the year in pop culture, from the most noteworthy albums and artists to the most off-the-wall moments.
Magazine Layout One of the hallmarks of Rolling Stone is its excellent photography. From the cover image through to the last page, photos are what drives much of the graphical nature of this magazine. Articles are accompanied by photographs or illustrations, and the overall tone of the magazine is visually impactful. Awards 2007 National Magazine Award For General Excellence, ASME. Editorial excellence honors in reporting and photo essay categories, ASME 2006. Since the inception of ASME, Rolling Stone has earned over 50 nominations and 12 wins.
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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Showing reviews 1-5 of 307
 Don't order from this vendor! September 8, 2010
EAV
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The vendor for this subscription fails to deliver product. When I complain, I get a bogus excuse about the address not being deliverable in spite of the fact that all other mail and Amazon products ordered seem to find the way to delivery with no problems. Amazon itself is unable to get the product to me and is only modestly useful in mediating with the vendor. If you want regular delivery of a subscription, going through Amazon is surely not the way. I have been burned 2X...
 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.
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