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How to Save Rock & Roll: Nine Insiders Who Are Changing the Music Business

1/6/09, 4:30 pm EST

Photograph by Kevin Estrada for Rolling Stone

You might not know it, but the two guys pictured above have already changed the way you consume music. Ali and Hadi Partovi are the founders of iLike.com, the top music application on Facebook. By harnessing the power of one of the largest online social networks, the pair have created an interconnected universe of 30 million fans. Why does that matter, how did they do it and who else is shaping the future of the rock business? Check out our special feature on nine insiders with unique visions for the music biz, from video-game developers to a box-set maker to Broken Social Scene’s best pal.

How to Save Rock & Roll


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kliff | 1/7/2009, 10:12 am EST

RS Mag can actually help save rock ‘n roll if they would stop covering Britney, Rappers and other non-rock ‘n roll people.
Get a clue!

Jere | 1/7/2009, 12:30 pm EST

Rap has been the new rock & roll arena since the late 80s, and rock & roll has been pop music since Elvis. “Get a clue.”

I don’t see the guys at Crush Management as “saving” anything, though. I mean, I loved the FOB and PATD albums from last year (even if just for their audacity and bombast), but that whole “scene” seems to still be a fad.

Oh well. I’m just happy that someone’s working on some kind of deluxe Wu-Tang and Pixies sets. Keep us posted on those, RS!

DMRoberts | 1/7/2009, 1:07 pm EST

I agree. What the hell is this magazine anyway? How the hell can they put Fall Out Boy on the cover, or claim that the Jonas Brothers had one of the best albums of the year? Pop trash, pop tart, pop whore.

Chris | 1/7/2009, 2:41 pm EST

The TRUE artists that are saving rock ‘n’ roll are Pearl Jam, the Foo Fighters, and Jack White with The White Stripes and The Raconteurs. That’s about it. I agree with “kliff”, RS has to stop putting Britney Spears and the rest of the pop trash on the cover along with the Rappers. Put the rock ‘n’ roll saviors that I mentioned on the cover. They know about rock ‘n’ roll while the Jonas Brothers and all those other Pop shit bands/artists of today don’t know shit about it when they think they are.

Anonymous | 1/7/2009, 5:52 pm EST

Time to get a subscription to Spin or NME or even XXL for that matter

AdmChesterMynutz | 1/9/2009, 1:30 pm EST

And fashion designers. Does the magazine have to come out also? I threw it away.

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