113-586: Rolling Stone Australia is the Australian edition of the United States' Rolling Stone magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture, published monthly. The Australian version of Rolling Stone was initially published in 1970 as a supplement in Revolution magazine published by Monash University student Phillip Frazer . It was launched as a fully fledged magazine in 1972 by Frazer and
226-450: A National Magazine Award for digital design and an Overseas Press Club Award. In December 2023 Rolling Stone collected five National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, four Front Page Awards, and a Deadline Club award. Some artists have been featured on the cover many times, and some of these pictures went on to become iconic. The Beatles , for example, have appeared on the cover more than 30 times, either individually or as
339-563: A "buzzsaw" guitar sound that helped initiate punk rock in Australia and identified them with the greater international movement. Unable to get gigs, they converted their share house into a venue where they could play. With their debut single " (I'm) Stranded ", released in September 1976, they became the first punk band outside the US to release a record, ahead of the first UK punk releases from
452-824: A European tour to promote it and continued to tour America through late 2007. On 14 July 2007, Bailey, Kuepper and Hay re-united for another one-off gig at the Queensland Music Festival , with current member Wijnberg on bass guitar. In January 2009, as part of the All Tomorrows Parties touring festival, in this instance curated by Mick Harvey formerly of The Birthday Party, the Saints with Bailey, Hay, Kuepper and Larizza played shows in Brisbane, Sydney and in Mount Buller , Victoria. This
565-405: A Rolling Stone ". Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylan's hit single: "At [Ralph] Gleason's suggestion, Wenner named his magazine after a Bob Dylan song." Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era . You're probably wondering what we're trying to do. It's hard to say: sort of a magazine and sort of a newspaper. The name of it
678-505: A band that was so anarchic and violent. The Saints released their second album, Eternally Yours , in May 1978 on EMI/Harvest with Bailey and Kuepper producing. The album showed the band moving towards a more R&B style of rock, including a brass section on songs like " Know Your Product " which had been released as a single in February. Another track, "Private Affair", focussed on what
791-467: A band. The magazine is known for provocative photography and has featured musicians and celebrities on the cover throughout its history. Vanity Fair called the January 22, 1981, cover featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono the "Greatest Rolling Stone Cover Ever". The first ten issues featured, in order of appearance: The magazine spent $ 1 million (equivalent to $ 1.51 million in 2023) on
904-476: A contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of many prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe , Lester Bangs , Joe Klein , Joe Eszterhas , Ben Fong-Torres , Patti Smith and P. J. O'Rourke . It was at this point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. The January 21, 1970, issue covered the Altamont Free Concert and
1017-801: A controversy in the White House by publishing in the July issue an article by journalist Michael Hastings entitled "The Runaway General", quoting criticism by General Stanley A. McChrystal , commander of the International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan commander, about Vice President Joe Biden and other Administration members of the White House. McChrystal resigned from his position shortly after his statements went public. In 2010, Taibbi documented illegal and fraudulent actions by banks in
1130-595: A cover version of the Missing Links' track "Wild About You". They supported AC/DC in late December 1976 and, early in 1977, relocated to Sydney. EMI re-issued the single, "(I'm) Stranded" in February and it reached the Kent Music Report Top 100 Singles Chart. The Saints resisted being re-modelled into the English punk look and were generally ignored by the Australian press. Mainstream public
1243-412: A dedicated UK edition in conjunction with Attitude magazine publisher Stream Publishing. The new British Rolling Stone launched into a marketplace which already featured titles like Mojo and BandLab Technologies's monthly music magazine Uncut . The first issue had a choice of three cover stars (including music acts Bastille and Sam Fender, as well as No Time To Die actor Lashana Lynch), with
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#17327724473571356-472: A for-pay model, but has since transitioned to a free-with-print-subscription model. In the spring of 2012, Rolling Stone launched a federated search feature, which searches both the website and the archive. The website has become an interactive source of biographical information on music artists in addition to historical rankings from the magazine. Users can cross-reference lists and they are also provided with historical insights. For example, one group that
1469-415: A fortnightly to a monthly. Paul Gardiner partnered with art director Andrew Penhallow and founded GAP Records, which quickly acquired the local licences for UK labels Rough Trade and Factory Records, as well as signing local acts (such as Pel Mel) – meaning that in addition to Rolling Stone the office was now putting out albums by Joy Division and Cabaret Voltaire. At the same time Paul Comrie-Thompson became
1582-451: A four-color press with a different newsprint paper size. In 1979, the bar code appeared. In 1980, it became a gloss-paper, large-format (10 × 12 inch) magazine. Editions switched to the standard 8 × 11 inch magazine size starting with the issue dated October 30, 2008. Starting with the new monthly July 2018 issue, it returned to the previous 10 × 12 inch large format. The publication's site at one time had an extensive message-board forum. By
1695-615: A later version of the Saints. Ward became a member of English gothic punk band, the Damned . Bailey continued the group with Mark Birmingham on drums, Bruce Callaway on guitar, Barry Francis on guitar and Janine Hall on bass guitar. The Saints' first release after Kuepper's departure was the EP, Paralytic Tonight, Dublin Tomorrow , in March 1980 on Lost Records with Bailey producing. It
1808-434: A letter to Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner , calling the cover "ill-conceived, at best ... [it] reaffirms a message that destruction gains fame for killers and their 'causes'." Menino also wrote, "To respond to you in anger is to feed into your obvious market strategy", and that Wenner could have written about the survivors or the people who came to help after the bombings instead. In conclusion he wrote, "The survivors of
1921-464: A more downbeat image. In June, bass guitarist Alasdair "Algy" Ward replaced Bradshaw. Their next single " This Perfect Day " (July) peaked at No. 34 in the UK but further improvement was frustrated by EMI's failure to press enough copies to satisfy demand. They were kind of god-like to me and my colleagues. They were just always so much better than everybody else. It was extraordinary to go and see
2034-574: A much more expansive look at McChrystal and the culture of senior American military and how they become embroiled in such wars. The book reached Amazon.com 's bestseller list in the first 48 hours of release, and it received generally favorable reviews. Salon ' s Glenn Greenwald described it as "superb", "brave" and "eye-opening". In 2012, Taibbi, through his coverage of the Libor scandal , emerged as an expert on that topic, which led to media appearances outside Rolling Stone . On November 9, 2012,
2147-473: A new look and size. Year after year, Rolling Stone Australia has made me proud. They have executed the Rolling Stone mission with style, intelligence and energy. My hat is off to everyone who has contributed to this success over the years and I look forward to even greater years to come. In 2008 the magazine averaged sales of 27,051 copies a month, down from 29,372 the year before and about 40,000 at
2260-473: A remastered box set edition of The Saints' first album was announced, with Kuepper and Hay reforming the band to tour the 50th anniversary of (I'm) Stranded . The band will also feature Mick Harvey of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds , Peter Oxley of Sunnyboys and Mark Arm from Mudhoney . The Saints were one of the first and most influential punk rock groups. According to Bob Geldof , "Rock music in
2373-618: A selection of songs from early Saints, both solo careers, and post-Kuepper Saints, as well as a few covers. 2012 saw the recording of "King of the Sun". The album was recorded at the Trackdown studios in Sydney, where Bailey had previously recorded "Savage Entertainment". Released in Australia in late 2012, "King of the Sun" was delayed in European countries until April 2013. On 7 November 2013,
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#17327724473572486-443: A separate online publication dedicated to the coverage of video games and video game culture. Gus Wenner , Jann Wenner's son and head of digital for the publication at the time, told The New York Times that "gaming is today what rock 'n' roll was when Rolling Stone was founded". Glixel was originally hosted on Rolling Stone ' s website and transitioned to its own domain by October 2016. Stories from Glixel are included on
2599-407: A short editorial stating that the story "falls within the traditions of journalism and Rolling Stone ' s long-standing commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural issues of our day". The controversial cover photograph that was used by Rolling Stone had previously featured on the front page of The New York Times on May 5, 2013. In response to
2712-831: A solo career, and had relocated to Sweden by 1994. The band was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame in 2001. Bailey died in April 2022. The Saints' original members were Brisbane schoolmates Bailey, Kuepper and Hay. They had formed Kid Galahad and the Eternals in 1973 with Irish-raised Bailey on vocals, Brisbane-born Hay on piano and German-born Kuepper on guitar. Their musical inspirations came from 1950s rock 'n' roll musicians such as Little Richard and Elvis Presley (their name referenced his 1962 film, Kid Galahad ) and 1960s proto-punk bands like
2825-647: A sort of advisor if not manager to Chris Bailey and his band the Saints . A handful of younger writers like Ed St.John and occasional RAM contributors Toby Creswell and Clinton Walker too started freelancing for Rolling Stone and invigorating its pages. The magazine shifted from its old office in North Sydney to the basement of the Gardiners’ home in Neutral Bay, and even as it continued to tinker, in
2938-555: A star contributor alongside the copy Creswell himself generated, the magazine was now brimming with well-written local features and news stories, and incisive reviews. In 1987, owners Paul Gardiner and Jane Maitheson pulled out of the business amid mounting debts and American indifference, and the licence to publish Rolling Stone in Australia was picked up by Creswell leading a consortium he’d assembled with an old school friend, Philip Keir, and Keir's wife Lesa-Belle Furhagen. Shifting headquarters back to Sydney city, to Surry Hills right in
3051-523: A supplement in Revolution , a counter-culture magazine edited and published by Phillip Frazer in Melbourne as an offshoot of his teen-based pop newspaper Go-Set . Go-Set introduced a counter-culture supplement called Core on 13 December 1969, edited by Ed Nimmervoll who had worked on Go-Set since 1966. Frazer soon decided that the "Core" material deserved a stand-alone publication for older readers, and on 1 May 1970, Go-Set Publications launched
3164-675: A venue to play in. According to Australian rock historian, Ian McFarlane , they had developed their "own distinctive sound as defined by Kuepper's frenetic, whirlwind guitar style and Bailey's arrogant snarl". In June 1976, the Saints recorded two self-produced tracks, " (I'm) Stranded " and "No Time" with Mark Moffatt engineering (label credits for both sides say 'Produced by The Saints'). Unable to find any interested label, they formed Fatal Records and independently released their debut single in September. Their self-owned Eternal Promotions sent discs to radio stations and magazines both in Australia – with little local interest – and United Kingdom. In
3277-451: A writer from Crawdaddy and David Fricke from Musician . Tom Wolfe wrote to Wenner to propose an idea drawn from Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray : to serialize a novel. Wenner offered Wolfe around $ 200,000 to serialize his work. The frequent deadline pressure gave Wolfe the motivation he had sought, and from July 1984 to August 1985, he published a new installment in each biweekly issue of Rolling Stone . Later Wolfe
3390-434: Is Rolling Stone which comes from an old saying, "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Muddy Waters used the name for a song he wrote. The Rolling Stones took their name from Muddy's song. Like a Rolling Stone was the title of Bob Dylan's first rock and roll record. We have begun a new publication reflecting what we see are the changes in rock and roll and the changes related to rock and roll. However, it distanced itself from
3503-562: Is listed on both Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time is Toots and the Maytals , with biographical details from Rolling Stone that explain how Toots and the Maytals coined the term " reggae " in their song " Do the Reggay ". For biographical information on all artists, the website contains a directory listed alphabetically. In May 2016, Wenner Media announced plans to create
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3616-462: The Patty Hearst abduction odyssey. One interviewer, speaking for many of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus, describing it as a " rite of passage ". In 1972, Wenner assigned Tom Wolfe to cover the launch of NASA 's last Moon mission, Apollo 17 . He published a four-part series in 1973 titled "Post-Orbital Remorse", about
3729-597: The Rolling Stone website, while writers for Rolling Stone were also able to contribute to Glixel . The site was headed by John Davison, and its offices were located in San Francisco. Rolling Stone closed down the offices in June 2017 and fired the entire staff, citing the difficulties of working with the remote site from their main New York office. Brian Crecente , founder of Kotaku and co-founder of Polygon ,
3842-471: The United States , it publishes content through Rollingstone.com and numerous international editions. The magazine experienced a rapid rise during the 1970s, followed by a sharp decline into financial turmoil in the 21st century; leading Jann Wenner to sell 49 percent of the magazine to BandLab Technologies in 2016 and 51 percent to Penske Media Corporation (PMC) in 2017. PMC eventually acquired
3955-501: The killing of Meredith Hunter , which won a Specialized Journalism award at the National Magazine Awards in 1971. Later in 1970, Rolling Stone published a 30,000-word feature on Charles Manson by David Dalton and David Felton, including their interview of Manson when he was in the L.A. County Jail awaiting trial, which won Rolling Stone its first National Magazine Award. Four years later, they also covered
4068-655: The 1960s and 1970s. One critic referred to the Rolling Stone list of the "500 Greatest Songs" as an example of "unrepentant rockist fogeyism". In further response to this issue, rock critic Jim DeRogatis , a former Rolling Stone editor, published a thorough critique of the magazine's lists in a book called Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics , which featured differing opinions from many younger critics. Rolling Stone magazine has been criticized for reconsidering many classic albums that it had previously dismissed, and for frequent use of
4181-523: The 1988 film Young Einstein ' s soundtrack. Their version of "The Music Goes Round My Head" reached No. 19 on the US Alternative Songs chart. The Saints issued a compilation album, Songs of Salvation and Sin 1976–1988 in 1990 on Raven Records with liner notes penned by Glenn A. Baker . Over the years, Kuepper had grown unhappy with Bailey's ongoing use of the Saints name and, in particular, with Baker crediting Bailey for
4294-541: The 1990s, the magazine broadened and shifted its focus to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors, and popular music. It has since returned to its traditional mix of content, including music, entertainment, and politics. The first magazine was released in 1967 and featured John Lennon on the cover, and was then published every two weeks. It is known for provocative photography and its cover photos, featuring musicians, politicians, athletes, and actors. In addition to its print version in
4407-523: The 1990s. Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg stated in 2008 that Rolling Stone had "essentially become the house organ of the Democratic National Committee ". Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner has made all of his political donations to Democrats and has conducted high-profile interviews for the magazine with Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama . Rolling Stone endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in
4520-404: The 3-D hologram cover of the special 1,000th issue (May 18, 2006) displaying multiple celebrities and other personalities. The printed format has gone through several changes. The first publications, in 1967 to 1972, were in folded tabloid newspaper format , with no staples, only black ink text, and a single color highlight that changed each edition. From 1973 onwards, editions were produced on
4633-527: The 3.5-star rating. For example, Led Zeppelin was largely written off by Rolling Stone magazine critics during the band's most active years in the 1970s, but by 2006, a cover story on the band honored them as "the Heaviest Band of All Time". A critic for Slate magazine described a conference at which 1984's The Rolling Stone Record Guide was scrutinized. As he described it, "The guide virtually ignored hip-hop and ruthlessly panned heavy metal,
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4746-515: The 49 percent stake from BandLab Technologies in 2019, giving it full ownership of the magazine. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph J. Gleason . To pay for the setup costs, Wenner borrowed $ 7,500 (equivalent to $ 69,000 in 2023 ) from his family and the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue was released on November 9, 1967, and featured John Lennon in costume for
4859-577: The American edition. In addition to relying on Clinton Walker for major features and acerbic reviews, Creswell nurtured new young writers like O’Donnell and John Birmingham , who won Rolling Stone ’s campus writing contest, and had it not been for its great weakness, its Sydney-centricity – its inability to get good consistent coverage on the ground in Melbourne – the magazine would undoubtedly have been Australia's journal of record for music culture. By
4972-520: The Australian Rolling Stone as a fully fledged magazine, five years after the flagship started in the United States. Rolling Stone Australia was published fortnightly, devoted to music, politics, and popular culture, with a few local articles supplementing the major features from the parent magazine. In August 1972 Frazer launched an Australian counter-culture magazine The Digger which was published fortnightly, then monthly, and it
5085-594: The Boston Marathon deserve Rolling Stone cover stories, though I no longer feel that Rolling Stone deserves them." In the issue dated November 19, 2014, the story "A Rape on Campus" was run about an alleged gang rape on the campus of the University of Virginia . Separate inquiries by Phi Kappa Psi , the fraternity accused by Rolling Stone of facilitating the alleged rape, and The Washington Post revealed major errors, omissions and discrepancies in
5198-570: The Damned , the Sex Pistols and the Clash . They experienced UK chart success in 1977 with the song " This Perfect Day ", which peaked at #34. Bassist Kym Bradshaw left in 1977 and was replaced by Algy Ward . Their second album Eternally Yours , released in 1978, saw the band pursue a bigger and more R&B driven sound, augmented by a horn section. After their third album Prehistoric Sounds later in 1978, Kuepper clashed with Bailey over
5311-543: The Eighties, which led to an increase in advertising revenue and pages. It also shifted to more of an entertainment magazine in the 1980s. It still had music as the main topic but began to increase its coverage of celebrities, films, and pop culture. It also began releasing its annual "Hot Issue". In the 1990s, the magazine changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors, and popular music. This led to criticism that
5424-574: The Innocents ), while Louise Elliot on saxophone and Jeffrey Wegener on drums (both ex-Laughing Clowns) completed the line-up. A live album, Live in a Mud Hut ... Somewhere in Europe , recorded in 1984 with production credited to Mugumbo, was released by New Rose in 1985. Hay returned and, with Bailey, Burgman and Larizza, the group recorded All Fools Day in Wales with Hugh Jones producing. It
5537-562: The Jungle... Where Things Ain't So Pleasant on New Rose Records. Production was credited to Ricardo Mentalban, and with Bailey, in the Saints, were Hall on bass guitar and Iain Shedden (ex-Jolt) on drums. Additional musicians included Roger Crankwell on saxophone and clarinet, Denis Haines on piano, Paul Neiman on trombone, Steve Sidwell on trumpet and Jess Sutcliffe on piano. The Damned's Brian James guested on lead guitar. In late 1982,
5650-634: The Missing Links , the Stooges and MC5 . They rehearsed in a shed at the back of Hay's place, which was opposite the local police headquarters. The band renamed themselves the Saints in 1974, inspired by Leslie Charteris 's character The Saint . They played covers of Del Shannon , Connie Francis and Ike and Tina Turner – "exploding them almost beyond recognition with energy". Jeffrey Wegener joined on drums and Hay switched to bass guitar. Wegener had left by 1975, Hay moved to drums and Kym Bradshaw joined on bass guitar. Contemporaneous with Ramones ,
5763-518: The News That's Fit to Print". The first appearance of the rubric was in 1969. In the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazine's political section. Thompson first published his most famous work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , within the pages of Rolling Stone , where he remained
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#17327724473575876-517: The Saints appeared as a 4-piece at the Borderline club in London, England. Alongside Bailey were stalwart Saints Barrington Francis and Peter Wilkinson. The band was augmented with Chris Dunne on keyboards. In 2017, a mural dedicated to the Saints and their song "(I'm) Stranded" was enacted on Roma Street, Brisbane . The mural included lyrics from the song and is situated close to 4 Petrie Terrace,
5989-658: The Top ;50. The line-up was Bailey, Francis, Larizza, Shedden and Joe Chiofalo on organ. It was produced by Bailey, Brian McGee and Vanda & Young . The single, "Grain of Sand", from Prodigal Son peaked at No. 11 on the United States Billboard Alternative Songs chart. In March 1989, the Saints had an Australian Top 40 hit with a cover of the Easybeats ' song " Music Goes 'Round My Head ", which also featured in
6102-462: The UK, a small label, Power Exchange, issued the single. Sounds magazine's reviewer, Jonh Ingham , declared it, "Single of this and every week". EMI head office in London contacted the Sydney branch and directed that they be signed to a three-album contract. Over two days in December, the group recorded their first LP, (I'm) Stranded (February 1977), with Rod Coe producing. It included
6215-442: The article " Bug Chasers: The men who long to be HIV+ " claimed that homosexuals who intentionally sought to be infected with HIV accounted for 25% of new cases each year. However, the article's cited physicians later denied making such statements. In 2005, the article " Deadly Immunity " by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted criticism for quoting material out of context, and Rolling Stone eventually amended
6328-762: The band members saw as the pigeon-holing, hype and commercialisation of punk. The album reached the Top 100 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart. The jazz-blues influenced third album, Prehistoric Sounds , followed in October 1978 (January 1979 in Australia). Its commercial failure led EMI to drop the band. During 1978, relations between Kuepper and Bailey had deteriorated, with Bailey preferring rock and pop songs and Kuepper pursuing less commercial and more intellectual material. Finally Hay, Kuepper and Ward left
6441-497: The band's musical direction and left, subsequently forming the post-punk group Laughing Clowns , while Hay and Ward followed suit. Bailey, the sole mainstay of the group, continued under the Saints moniker with a rotating lineup of musicians in the ensuing decades. 1986's All Fools Day peaked in the Top 30 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart in April 1986 and yielded the hit song " Just Like Fire Would ". Bailey also forged
6554-476: The band's original creative direction. In April 1991, Kuepper formed the Aints , which performed versions of vintage the Saints' material. The Saints issued Permanent Revolution in 1991 on Mushroom Records, and while Bailey released solo albums, the group went into hiatus. By 1994, Bailey had moved to Sweden where he recorded a solo album, 54 days at sea , and in 1996 issued the Saints' album, Howling , which
6667-419: The depression that some astronauts experienced after having been in space. After the series, Wolfe began researching the whole of the space program, in what became a seven-year project from which he took time to write The Painted Word , a book on art, and to complete Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine , a collection of shorter pieces and eventually The Right Stuff . The magazine began running
6780-506: The early 90s, however, with Next Media now having bought a building of its own in southern-Sydney suburb Redfern, tensions were brewing between Phil Keir and both his wife Lesa-Belle Furhagen and Toby Creswell. The eventual result was that September 1992, saw a traumatic split, in which Creswell was escorted off the premises by security, Keir took control of the company, and Creswell and Furhagen went off together to form Terraplane Press, which launched Juice magazine. Juice aimed itself, with
6893-648: The film How I Won the War on the cover. It was in newspaper format with a lead article on the Monterey International Pop Festival . The cover price was 25¢ (equivalent to $ 2.27 in 2023) and it was published bi-weekly. In the first issue, Wenner explained that the title of the magazine came from the old saying "A rolling stone gathers no moss." He also mentioned the 1950 blues song " Rollin' Stone ", recorded by Muddy Waters , The Rolling Stones band, and Bob Dylan 's 1965 hit single " Like
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#17327724473577006-478: The first 20 songs stored on the National Film and Sound Archive 's Sounds of Australia registry. Their début album, (I'm) Stranded was listed at No. 20 in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums , in October 2010. Their third album, Prehistoric Sounds , also appeared in the list, at No. 41. In a tribute published on his Red Hand Files Q&A platform, Nick Cave remembered Bailey as “perhaps
7119-630: The foreclosure courts, after traveling to Jacksonville , Florida and sitting in on hearings in the courtroom. His article, "Invasion of the Home Snatchers", also documented attempts by the judge to intimidate a homeowner fighting foreclosure and the attorney Taibbi accompanied into the court. In January 2012, the magazine ran exclusive excerpts from Hastings' book just prior to publication. The book, The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan , provided
7232-532: The group in early 1979. Kuepper returned to Australia and followed a more avant-garde direction with Laughing Clowns , which would frequently feature brass, and later, the punkish the Aints . He is one of Australia's most influential and highly regarded musicians with over twenty solo albums to his credit. Hay briefly returned to Australia to join Sydney-based the Hitmen and then rejoined Bailey in London for
7345-410: The group toured Australia with Bailey, Hall and Shedden joined by Chris Burnham on guitar (ex- Supernaut ) and Laurie Cuffe on guitar. In 1983, Bailey released his first solo album, Casablanca , on New Rose. In 1984, Bailey was based in Sydney, and the Saints' album, A Little Madness to Be Free , was released in July on RCA with production credited to Lurax Debris (Bailey's pseudonym). It contains
7458-467: The group were employing the fast tempos, raucous vocals and "buzz saw" guitar that characterised early punk rock. Kuepper explained that they played faster and faster as they were nervous in front of audiences. The police would often break up their gigs, and arrests were frequent. Unable to obtain bookings, Bailey and Hay converted the Petrie Terrace house they shared into the 76 Club so they had
7571-413: The late 1990s, this had developed into a thriving community, with many regular members and contributors worldwide. However, the site was also plagued with numerous Internet trolls , who vandalized the forum substantially. The magazine abruptly deleted the forum in May 2004, then began a new, much more limited message board community on their site in late 2005, only to remove it again in 2006. In March 2008,
7684-475: The location previously used by the band as an unlicensed venue. In 2021, the State Library of Queensland named its copy of "(I'm) Stranded" as one of the treasures from its John Oxley Library collection, citing the 7” vinyl single represented a piece of Australian and Queensland music history, influencing generations of bands around the world. Chris Bailey died on April 9, 2022, aged 65. In mid-2024,
7797-509: The magazine by the late 1990s, it entered into something of a phase in the wilderness, with a succession of editors and owners compromising its content and integrity in the face of a shifting pop-cultural landscape, including not least of all the rise of the internet. In 2008 Next Media Pty Ltd was purchased by Worseley Media , in a deal that saw ACP Magazines acquire Rolling Stone magazine in exchange for ACP titles Tracks and Waves . A few months later, ACP relaunched Rolling Stone , with
7910-458: The magazine due to be a bi-monthly publication. In February 2022, Rolling Stone announced the acquisition of Life Is Beautiful , saying, "Live events are an integral part of Rolling Stone's future." In 2023 Rolling Stone was nominated for its first-ever Emmy award in the "Outstanding Interactive Media" category for its investigation into "The DJ and the War Crimes". The piece also won
8023-423: The magazine enjoyed a boost in stability and success, and certainly it would outlive Juice , which despite its efforts for a decade, went down when the dot.com bubble burst in 2003. Australian Rolling Stone celebrated its 25th year with a special collector's edition in May 1998, and at that time the publishers claimed the current circulation was around 40,000. After Bail and Scatena (and Clinton Walker) had left
8136-434: The magazine published its first Spanish-language section on Latino music and culture, in the issue dated November 22. In September 2016, Advertising Age reported that Wenner was in the process of selling a 49% stake of the magazine to a company from Singapore called BandLab Technologies . The new investor had no direct involvement in the editorial content of the magazine. In September 2017, Wenner Media announced that
8249-415: The magazine was emphasizing style over substance. After years of declining readership, the magazine experienced a major resurgence of interest and relevance with the work of two young journalists in the late 2000s, Michael Hastings and Matt Taibbi . Rob Sheffield also joined from Spin . In 2005, Dana Leslie Fields , former publisher of Rolling Stone , who had worked at the magazine for 17 years,
8362-572: The magazine's name was a nod to the Rolling Stones in an addition to "Rollin' Stone" and "Like a Rolling Stone". The magazine's long-running slogan, "All the news that fits", was provided by early contributor, manager and sometime editor Susan Lydon . She lifted it from an April Fools issue of the Columbia Daily Spectator which posted "All the news that fits we print", a parody of The New York Times ' slogan, "All
8475-500: The mid-80s, with its format, experimenting with design styles, colour and paperstock – and experimenting with a great many different contributors – it was finally starting to look like a viable competitor to RAM . In 1985, Rolling Stone published The Big Australian Rock Book , a sort of A-Z survey of then-Australian music, edited by Ed St.John and written largely by him, Bruce Elder, Toby Creswell, Clinton Walker and Andrea Jones. The final transformation began in 1986, when Toby Creswell
8588-569: The middle of a booming inner-city music circuit, and taking on staff that included most notably designer/writer David Messer, Rolling Stone was then left, after the demise of RAM in 1989, with the Australian music magazine market almost entirely to itself. In the face of competition only from the now-widespread, regionalised free street press with its preponderance of advertorial, and now with John O’Donnell as Creswell's Assistant Editor and going glossy full colour throughout, Rolling Stone entered its peak period, with its own flavor quite distinct from
8701-635: The original line-up of the Saints came together for a one-off reunion when the writer Clinton Walker , a long-time friend and champion of the band, inducted them into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame. By 2005, the group had re-located to Amsterdam , Netherlands - with Bailey were the line-up of Marty Willson-Piper on guitar, Caspar Wijnberg on bass guitar and Pete Wilkinson on drums. They issued Nothing Is Straight in My House in 2005, and after Willson-Piper left they released Imperious Delirium in 2006. They undertook
8814-414: The outcry, New England–based CVS Pharmacy and Tedeschi Food Shops banned their stores from carrying the issue. Also refusing to sell the issue were Walgreens ; Rite-Aid and Kmart ; Roche Bros. and Stop & Shop ; H-E-B and Walmart ; 7-Eleven ; Hy-Vee , Rutter's Farm , and United Supermarkets ; Cumberland Farms and Market Basket ; and Shaw's . Boston mayor Thomas Menino sent
8927-619: The photographs of Annie Leibovitz in 1970. In 1973, she became its chief photographer, and her images appeared on more than 140 covers. Rolling Stone recruited writers from smaller music magazines, including Paul Nelson from Sing Out! , who became record reviews editor from 1978 to 1983, and Dave Marsh from Creem . In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City . Editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become "a cultural backwater". Kurt Loder joined Rolling Stone in May 1979 and spent nine years there, including as editor. Timothy White joined as
9040-503: The popular track "Ghost Ships", which was issued as a single in May. A Little Madness to Be Free was "more rock-oriented, with extensive use of acoustic guitar, brass and strings set among tightly focused arrangements". In mid-1984, the band toured as Bailey, Burnham, Shedden and Tracy Pew on bass guitar, (ex- Birthday Party ), who was briefly replaced by Kuepper in July. By 1985, the Saints were Bailey, Richard Burgman on guitar (ex- Sunnyboys ) and Arturo 'Archie' Larizza on bass guitar (
9153-464: The previous year. They initially ran from 2009 to 2015 and have been relaunched as of March 2021. Rolling Stone Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music , politics , and popular culture . It was founded in San Francisco, California in 1967 by Jann Wenner and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason . The magazine was first known for its coverage of rock music and political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson . In
9266-436: The remaining 51% of Rolling Stone magazine was up for sale. In December 2017, Penske Media acquired the remaining stake from Wenner Media. It became a monthly magazine from the July 2018 issue. On January 31, 2019, Penske acquired BandLab's 49% stake in Rolling Stone , gaining full ownership of the magazine. In January 2021, a Chinese edition of the magazine was launched, while in September 2021, Rolling Stone launched
9379-456: The rise of grunge in the 90s, at a slightly younger demographic than Rolling Stone , but Rolling Stone , with Kathy Bail now installed as editor, continued to offer quality coverage of Australian and global music, politics, and popular culture. Freelancer Clinton Walker was the only writer to carry over from the old regime to this new one (while he also contributed to Juice at the same time!), and when Dino Scatena came in on staff to assist Bail,
9492-489: The run-up for the 2016 U.S. presidential election . Rolling Stone has criticized Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump . In 2006, it described Bush as the "worst president in history". The magazine featured Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau on its August 2017 cover with the headline "Why can't he be our president?" One major criticism of Rolling Stone involves its generational bias toward
9605-548: The school, filed a $ 7.5 million defamation lawsuit in Charlottesville Circuit Court against Rolling Stone and Erdely, claiming damage to her reputation and emotional distress. Said the filing, " Rolling Stone and Erdely's highly defamatory and false statements about Dean Eramo were not the result of an innocent mistake. They were the result of a wanton journalist who was more concerned with writing an article that fulfilled her preconceived narrative about
9718-621: The seventies was changed by three bands—the Sex Pistols, the Ramones and the Saints". In May 2001, Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) celebrated its 75th anniversary and named "(I'm) Stranded" in its Top 30 Australian songs of all time. The band was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame in September. In 2007, "I'm Stranded" was one of
9831-481: The size of an A4 page. It was on newsprint and because it was folded you could have the huge image on the front cover. It was very simple, it was just the essence of hipness In 1975, before Frazer left Australia for the United States, he closed down The Digger and sold the local Rolling Stone licence to a group of journalists led by former Financial Review writer Paul Gardiner, with Jane Mathieson and Paul Comrie Thomson. One thing this meant, perhaps most crucially,
9944-441: The spring of 2010. The expectation was that the restaurant could become the first of a national chain if it was successful. As of November 2010, the "soft opening" of the restaurant was planned for December 2010. In 2011, the restaurant was open for lunch and dinner as well as a full night club downstairs on the weekends. The restaurant closed in February 2013. Bigger headlines came at the end of June 2010. Rolling Stone caused
10057-680: The story and its problems by the dean of the Columbia School of Journalism . The report uncovered journalistic failure in the UVA story and institutional problems with reporting at Rolling Stone . Rolling Stone retracted the story on April 5, 2015. On April 6, 2015, following the investigation and retraction of the story, Phi Kappa Psi announced plans to pursue all available legal action against Rolling Stone , including claims of defamation . On May 12, 2015, UVA associate dean Nicole Eramo, chief administrator for handling sexual assault issues at
10170-399: The story with corrections in response to these and other criticisms. The August 2013 Rolling Stone cover, featuring then-accused (later convicted) Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev , drew widespread criticism that the magazine was "glamorizing terrorism" and that the cover was a "slap in the face to the great city of Boston ". The online edition of the article was accompanied by
10283-445: The story. Reporter Sabrina Erdely 's story was subject to intense media criticism. The Washington Post and Boston Herald issued calls for magazine staff involved in the report to be fired. Rolling Stone subsequently issued three apologies for the story. On December 5, 2014, Rolling Stone ' s managing editor, Will Dana, apologized for not fact-checking the story. Rolling Stone commissioned an outside investigation of
10396-530: The tabloid Revolution , co-edited by Frazer and Jon Hawkes. From its fourth issue onward Revolution included a supplement of Rolling Stone pages under an agreement Frazer made with its Californian owner and publisher Jann Wenner . In August 1971 Revolution became High Times (before the US magazine of that name), which featured Australian underground cartoons curated by co-editors Pat Woolley and Macy McFarland. Frazer left Go-Set and High Times early in 1972 and, with his business partner Geoff Watson, launched
10509-535: The time of its 30th anniversary issue six years previous. Its average readership in March 2008 was 301,000, compared with 296,000 a year earlier; the readership had peaked in December 1994 at 392,000. ACP was acquired by Bauer Media Group in 2012 and in 2013, the company Paper Riot, headed by Matt Coyte, bought the Rolling Stone franchise from Bauer. Under Coyte's editorship, and with the launch of its own independent website in 2014, Rolling Stone started to claw back some of its former relevance and credibility, but it
10622-802: The two genres that within a few years would dominate the pop charts. In an auditorium packed with music journalists, you could detect more than a few anxious titters: How many of us will want our record reviews read back to us 20 years hence?" The hiring of former FHM editor Ed Needham further enraged critics who alleged that Rolling Stone had lost its credibility. The 2003 "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time" article, which named only two female musicians, resulted in Venus Zine answering with their own list, entitled "The Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time". Rolling Stone ' s film critic, Peter Travers , has been criticized for his high number of repetitively used blurbs . In 2003,
10735-439: The underground newspapers of the time, such as Berkeley Barb , embracing more traditional journalistic standards and avoiding the radical politics of the underground press . In the first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone "is not just about the music, but about the things and attitudes that music embraces". In a 2017 article celebrating the publication's 50th anniversary, Rolling Stone ' s David Browne stated that
10848-807: The victimization of women on American college campuses, and a malicious publisher who was more concerned about selling magazines to boost the economic bottom line for its faltering magazine, than they were about discovering the truth or actual facts." On November 4, 2016, after 20 hours of deliberation, a jury consisting of eight women and two men found Rolling Stone , the magazine's publisher and Erdely liable for defaming Eramo, and awarded Eramo $ 3 million. The Saints (Australian band) The Saints were an Australian rock band formed in Brisbane, Queensland in 1973. Founded by singer-songwriter Chris Bailey , drummer Ivor Hay, and guitarist-songwriter Ed Kuepper , they originally employed fast tempos, raucous vocals and
10961-452: The way The Digger had only a few years earlier, with only Bruce Elder staying on for the long haul, and P.D. Jack coming and going. As the booms in local pub rock and punk rock started to take off, Rolling Stone seemed increasingly irrelevant, an imported acolyte of all things West Coast with precious little acknowledgement of the blossoming Australian scene around it. The real mark of the magazine's change came in 1980, when it shifted from
11074-400: The website started a new message board section once again, then deleted it in April 2010. Rolling Stone devotes one of its table of contents pages to promoting material currently appearing on its website, listing detailed links to the items. On April 19, 2010, the website underwent a redesign and began featuring the complete archives of Rolling Stone . The archive was first launched under
11187-527: Was The Digger , and not the local edition Rolling Stone , that fostered a team of star young writers like Colin Talbot, Helen Garner, Garrie Hutchinson and Robert Adamson, who rivalled the American Rolling Stone ’s iconoclastic reputation for New Journalism. The first edition [of Rolling Stone ] I saw was just so quirky. It was basically a tabloid format, A3-sized, folded so that it looked
11300-503: Was an Indian Summer, and in January 2018, Paper Riot went into external administration and the last issue of Australian Rolling Stone appeared. In January 2019, it was announced that Rolling Stone would be returning to the Australian market. Commencing in 2010, the Rolling Stone Australia Awards are awarded annually in January by Rolling Stone Australia for outstanding contributions to popular culture in
11413-619: Was an inaugural inductee into the Magazine Hall of Fame. In 2009, Taibbi unleashed an acclaimed series of scathing reports on the financial meltdown of the time. He famously described Goldman Sachs as "a great vampire squid ". In December 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that the owners of Rolling Stone magazine planned to open a Rolling Stone restaurant in the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood in
11526-575: Was followed by a Melbourne show on 14 January as part of the Don't Look Back sideshow concerts, where they performed the I'm Stranded album in its entirety. In 2010 the band returned to a three piece with Wilkinson returning as drummer and to the line-up, and the addition of new bassist Jane Mack. In May 2010, Kuepper and Bailey reunited for a month-long tri-residency series of shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. With Kuepper on electric guitar/vocals and Bailey on acoustic guitar/bass guitar/vocals, they played
11639-543: Was followed by a studio album, The Monkey Puzzle , co-produced by Bailey and Gerry Nixon for Mushroom Records in February 1981. It reached the Top 100 on the Australian Albums Chart. They had shifted to a more melodic pop-rock sound and included Hay on keyboards in the line-up. Hay left again before the next album was released in Australia in 1982 as I Thought This Was Love, But This Ain't Casablanca on Mushroom Records and elsewhere as Out in
11752-676: Was hired as editorial director and runs the site from the main New York office. Following the sale of Rolling Stone ' s assets to Penske Media Corporation , the Glixel content was merged into the routine publishing of Variety , with Crecente remaining as editorial director. In 2017, Graham Ruddick of The Guardian described Rolling Stone as a "rock'n'roll magazine turned liberal cheerleader". Bruce Schulman wrote in The Washington Post that Rolling Stone has "routinely support[ed] liberal candidates and causes" since
11865-593: Was issued by Mushroom Records in Australia and Polydor in United States, in April 1986. The album reached the Top 30 in Australia and included a Top 30 single, " Just Like Fire Would " (March). The group joined the Australian Made Tour in December 1986 – January 1987 with other local acts Mental as Anything , I'm Talking , the Triffids , Divinyls , Models , Jimmy Barnes and INXS . Prodigal Son followed in April 1988, which reached
11978-460: Was made editor. Ed St.John had by now left to become a record company executive, and Creswell was a journalist steeped in the Rolling Stone ethos and tradition but crucially also possessed of a certain vision for Australian music, and it was he who shaped the magazine into its most successful and very Australian form in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Naturally it still relied heavily on its American parent for content, but with Clinton Walker especially as
12091-860: Was produced by Bailey and Martin Hennel. Mushroom Records celebrated their 25th anniversary with the Mushroom 25 Live concert in November 1998; Bailey performed "Ghost Ships" and "Just Like Fire Would", and a duet with Paul Kelly on " Wide Open Road ", as a tribute to David McComb of the Triffids. Spit the Blues Out was issued in 2000 in France by Last Call Records with production credited to Debris. It displayed "'60s-era blues-rock" and "Brit-pop" influences, with Patrick Mathé of French label New Rose providing harmonica and guitar. On 11 September 2001,
12204-600: Was produced by the band for Blue Rose Records. Bailey provided vocals, guitars and organ, and was joined by Andreas Jornvill on drums, Joakim Täck on bass guitar, Ian Walsh on guitar and Mons Wieslander on guitar. The group toured Australia in February 1997 – their first tour there in eight years. Everybody Knows the Monkey followed in May 1998 on Last Call Records with Bailey were Michael Bayliss on bass guitar, Martin Bjerregaard on drums and Andy Faulkner on guitar – it
12317-471: Was that the magazine moved base from Melbourne to Sydney. The first Australian act on the cover was Skyhooks in 1976, who reportedly hated the photo, but it did mark a broadening recognition of local acts in the magazine. Together Gardiner, Mathieson and Comrie-Thompson built Rolling Stone Australia up as a major player in terms of circulation, shifting about 35,000 copies each fortnight. The magazine, however, lacked consistent local content. The Skyhooks cover
12430-416: Was the exception rather than the rule, and an Australian band would not re-appear on the cover again until Men at Work in 1983 – and that was a relayed American story. The magazine also lacked the immediacy and the team of quality contributors that made its rival RAM so much more successful in terms of relevance and quality. Certainly in no way in this phase, in the late 70s, did it develop a cast of writers
12543-575: Was the longest-surviving international edition of Rolling Stone until its last issue appeared in January 2018. As of February 2019, Rolling Stone Australia returned with a digital platform published by The Brag Media , in an exclusive licensing deal with Rolling Stone owner Penske Media Corporation. In June 2020, the magazine was acquired from the Bauer Media Group by Sydney –based investment firm Mercury Capital . The Australian version of Rolling Stone launched in May 1970 as
12656-478: Was unhappy with his "very public first draft" and thoroughly revised his work, even changing his protagonist, Sherman McCoy, and published it as The Bonfire of the Vanities in 1987. Rolling Stone was known for its musical coverage and for Thompson's political reporting and in 1985, they hired an advertising agency to refocus its image under the series "Perception/Reality" comparing Sixties symbols to those of
12769-430: Was warned that punk rock is "a sinister new teenage pop cult, based on sex, sadism and violence, [which] is sweeping Britain." In May 1977, the band released their second single, "Erotic Neurotic" and then moved to the UK, where they differed with their label over how they should be marketed. EMI planned to promote them as a typical punk band, complete with ripped clothes and spiky hair – the Saints insisted on maintaining
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