Rock Magazines! Why They're So Good
You know what’s interesting about the rock print medium nearly two-thirds of the way through the ’80s? That so much of it is aimed at what you'd imagine to be the least literate segment of the rock audience—that which believes that Metal Rules.
Rock Magazines! Why They're So Good
FEATURES
John Mendelssohn
You know what’s interesting about the rock print medium nearly two-thirds of the way through the ’80s? That so much of it is aimed at what you'd imagine to be the least literate segment of the rock audience—that which believes that Metal Rules.
Be that as it may, let’s you and I, free of considerations of the bottom line that make real-life publishers’ lives a living hell, dare to imagine the icteal rock magazine.
It doesn’t take no for an answer— when there’s a story to get, it gets it, regardless of anyone’s fashionable reluctance to speak to the press.
Its features elucidate the True Natures of our favorite stars, are rich in insights into the magical process by which our favorite music comes to be. It isn’t the pawn of the record companies, and
thus doesn’t write about people solely on the basis of their having a fairly big record and the record company making them available for interviews, but on the basis of whether or not they Really Matter. It glorifies no unspeakable assholes, in other words, regardless of how many platinum albums they may have amassed.