Rolling Stone- the self anointed “authorities on Rock and Roll” who did nothing but trash the mighty Led Zeppelin in the 70’s....kind of puts things into perspective....
Yes, I blame them for the snotty, elitist tone of much if the “music press.”
I won’t buy it because I hate Matt Taibbi so much. And you know that I seldom use the word “hate” on people.
Oh, and there was the Tsaranov embarrassment.
Over the decades though, it’s interesting how the publication has changed. When I last did read one, probably because of a cover story on Kurt Cobain, I thought I was reading a lifestyle magazine like Playboy. One ad after another for hard liquor. So they’re all wearing their fathers golf pants and driving their fathers Oldsmobile now? Maybe Jann Wenner took it in this direction.
When I was teenager in the 70s,, RS was still published in San Francisco and had names and addresses of prisoners wanting pen pals in the back. All gone now.