Shame on Rolling Stone for succumbing to the level of the other crap “reality” shows out there. Lester Bangs, Paul Nelson, Hunter Thompson wouldn’t put up with this shit!

i heard that originally the show was to be entitled “help me i am in hell” but jann couldn’t secure the song rights from reznor.

Bangs is rolling so fast in his grave he’s getting coffin burns.

face it; we’re ALL writing for rolling stone through this blog!…i like this blog…

The show’s a load of crap. I rambled on about all things rock and my encyclopedic knowledge of music and got squarely shut out. Wrong demographic. Crap!

I do plan on watching the show, but looking at this extremely photogenic group of young “hipsters,” I can only shiver at the amount of depth in musical knowledge they have: “That Jimi Hendrix guy must have stole Lenny Kravitz’s look.”

…and I can already tell the guy with the beard and the long hair is going to try and be the “outrageous” Hunter/Lester clone…

My wife can already say “I’m from Rollingstone.” In fact, her dad’s the mayor. How awesome is that? My father-in-law is the Mayor of Rollingstone. Rollingstone, MN

Nothing wrong with trying to find the next best rock and roll writer, but I can bet these people will no very little about rock and roll. Also….who really cares?

So I am sad that I had no idea that this show was even going on!
My DREAM would be to write for
the Rolling Stone!! ANd I am young and happen to know a lot about music from the greats to the current so you can’t be so quick to judge that just because these people are young does not mean that they don’t know much about music.

whatever happened to working your way up…hard work…intiative. Apparently looks and an underlying urge to be on television is all you need today. I once thought that pure and raw talent was enough.

Rolling Stone is fuckin’ bullshit nowadays, I started reading the magazine in 1998 when it still had a LITTLE bit of dignity. Now it’s MTV driven, mindless bullshit. Giving every album that’s just as bad as K-Fed 3 stars because they dont have the balls to say that Akon sucks, for example. My Chemical Romance 4 stars? Are you kidding me? The movie reviews are the only thing this magazine still has with the exception of some good political reads. I am so disappointed in this magazine. I will not renew my subscription now that this “reality” show on mtv is to be aired… PEOPLE READ PITCHFORK’S REVIEWS ON MUSIC.

Rolling Stone has always been a staple in my life, the only magizine I’ll read. Great writing, editing, pictures. Now its going to be a shitty reality show. I guess Hell really has frooze over.

“I saw a deadhead sticker on a cadillac…”
You boomers whored your whole dream right down to the bones, although this may be the lowest
Shame on you Rolling Stone, and see how far you’ve fallen

This show is a venereal disease of epic proportions. How could Rolling Stone sell out and become MTV? Such crap. YOUR FIRED!

The only thing this magazine does good is its political article. Try to spread that kind of mentality to your music articles.

While this does sort of make Rolling Stone a complete sell out,

You guys need to quit whining and complaining. Seriously. Yes, Rolling Stone has gone down the drain (for the most part). Yes, making this into a reality TV show does more or less RS a sell out. But you can’t tell me that the show doesn’t look interesting. I personally envy the competitors.

Also, I agree with whoever said to read Pitchfork’s music reviews.

This cracks me up!! I was a creative department intern back in the early ’90s and there wasn’t much to base a reality TV show on, I can assure you. Granted, it was a lot of fun for a 19-year-old kid to be able to legitimately say “I’m with Rolling Stone,” but it was a lot of hard work and crap jobs with little “glamour.” This stunt will surely dilute a talented intern pool (the NON-photogenic masses) in favor of shallow Real World castoffs. Gone are the days of high-quality, insightful, cutting-edge writing and content — this is the pinnacle of the downfall of an icon. Too bad.

this show will get cancelled

u can moan and groan all u want but there is no stopping the BULLSHIT that’s put on the tube. if u were the “man” what would u put on tv……I know …..the same fkn SSSSHHHHHIIIITTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since the age of sixteen, my dream has been to write for Rolling Stone Magazine. It has always been the largest music magazine in print, and the most respected in my mind. I am dying to find out how this show pans out. I hope that soon enough, when they get MY resume, they’ll see the real “raw talent writer” that could save Rolling Stone for future generations to preserve.

Get over it. It is just a show.

Funny Enough. As I look down certain comments I see someone I know. and whats scary, she says she always dreamt of being a Rolling Stone writer, but yet she treats people like shit.

Welcome to your future….it wont be for rolling stone