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Sizing Up The Slimmed-Down "Rolling Stone" [Rock-critically Correct]

Oct 17, 2008, 11:00am

Sizing Up The Slimmed-Down "Rolling Stone" [Rock-critically Correct]

Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone , Blender , Vibe , and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others ! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Rolling Stone : And so, the reformatted Rolling Stone has hit the newsstands. The mag's publicist did their job properly, since the announcement of this transformation was dutifully [...]

Artists: Rolling Stone

Tags: Top, Magazines, Barack Obama, Rolling Stone, rock-critically correct, Jann Wenner

"Fashion Rocks" Serves Up Anna Wintour's Vision Of A Music Magazine [Rock-critically Correct]"Rolling Stone" Puts Its Horns Up One More Time [Rock-critically Correct]"Spin" Does The Time Warp [Rock-critically Correct]"Vibe" Just Wants To Celebrate (Itself) [Rock-critically Correct]"Blender"'s Purr Seems A Bit Muted These Days [Rock-critically Correct]

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