Rolling Stone concluded a story about Katie Couric's situation with that of Kurt Cobain's, and it is pretty funny. Occasionally RS still hits on something, but like a broken watch it's not really reliable. For every decent issue (and this is one, as it turns out -- interesting story about an internet teen star, Nirvana retrospective at Experience Music in Seattle, Foo Fighters, other stuff), there are dozens every year that deaden my nerves with their cultural irrelevance (or maybe that's now the problem, what's culturally relevant is now consistently nerve-deadening). It doesn't help being not 15 anymore, much more difficult to suspend disbelief.
Perfect example: Just got an e-mail from RS about its coverage of the Royal Wedding. What could possibly be interesting about that? Rock music has been anything but subversive for at least 25 years now, and looking at everything through that prism no longer serves any purpose other than to distort our sad reality. Especially when most of what passes as rawk these days is so camped up.
That's why the English music magazines (Mojo and Q) are so much more adept at keeping it all interesting and in perspective. Excellent mix of current and historical, very little self-seriousness. Just too expensive to purchase all the time.
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