RollingStone.com ‘goes under’, replaced by websquatting home page
Published on Monday 2/22/2010 @ 1:57 PM by the ALT REPORT Robot
Music Magazines continue to ‘die off’ because of the rise of Pitchfork, Hype Machine, streaming websites and the mp3 blogosphere. There is no budget left to pay ‘music writers’ who believe they still have an authentic skill.
RollingStone.com is the popular website of the magazine Rolling Stone. It seems like their site has ‘gone under’ and was replaced by a generic web hosting home page. This might mean the ‘death’ of one of the most authentic magazines in the history of the pre-internet music landscape.
We can only assume that RollingStone.com makes the same amount of money per year as an entry level mp3 blog. Other theories have an member of the IT staff making a huge mistake that will cost him his job. Extreme conspiracy theorists say that Pitchfork IT staff ‘hacked’ the rolling stone site in order to steal some of their readers.
Have yall ever read the magazine ROLLING STONE or has it just been idealized as some sort of source of authenticity via the ‘Almost Famous’ glorification of music journalism?
Just trying 2 sell magazines to poors, tweens, and blacks.
Has 1 of your fave websites ever crashed / been hacked?
Are music magazines officially dead?
32 comments to “RollingStone.com ‘goes under’, replaced by websquatting home page”
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:05 pm
ooooooooh
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//////////Reply by Public Privates
//////////Posted February 22nd, 2010 at 3:06 pm
@JJ, Dang bro, wished i got first lol
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February 22nd, 2010 at 2:06 pm
You weren’t lying. Thats scary!
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February 22nd, 2010 at 2:09 pm
first, bitches!!!!
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//////////Reply by meaningful bro
//////////Posted February 22nd, 2010 at 9:30 pm
@bobmaster, wrong, bitch
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February 22nd, 2010 at 2:10 pm
what do u know
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February 22nd, 2010 at 2:21 pm
rolling stone is just an awful magazine, who cares…
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February 22nd, 2010 at 2:40 pm
longtime nme reader here, suck it bitchez
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February 22nd, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Hate to burst your bubble, but if you put a www. in front of rollingstone.com, you’ll get the website. They may have let the redirect go.
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//////////Reply by bradlee
//////////Posted February 22nd, 2010 at 4:32 pm
@Meeker, u a liar
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February 22nd, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Rolling Stone has shitty music coverage but Matt Taibbi is probably one of the best political journalists of ALL TIME!
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February 22nd, 2010 at 2:59 pm
so late on this one crls
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February 22nd, 2010 at 3:00 pm
i think they just wanted some ‘mad hits’ – via ppl seeing if they are up or not.
Marketing 2.0 ppl.
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February 22nd, 2010 at 3:05 pm
hipsterrunoff ‘goes under,’ replaced by half-assed ‘alt report’
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//////////Posted February 22nd, 2010 at 3:17 pm
@fatlatvian, lol
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//////////Reply by eggs
//////////Posted February 22nd, 2010 at 3:36 pm
@fatlatvian, besties
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//////////Reply by funky_rutabaga
//////////Posted February 22nd, 2010 at 4:57 pm
@fatlatvian, Miss daily HRO posts.
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//////////Posted February 22nd, 2010 at 5:56 pm
@fatlatvian, h8 yall 4 tellin’ ‘da trouf’
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February 22nd, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Don’t ever give up your re-direct crls.
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February 22nd, 2010 at 3:29 pm
I can’t get to their free website, so I guess I better go buy a copy of their magazine.
WAIT A MINUTE.
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//////////Reply by mk
//////////Posted February 22nd, 2010 at 7:44 pm
@The Revolutionary, lawlz
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February 22nd, 2010 at 3:29 pm
@Meeker, naw bro
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February 22nd, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Thank gawd(sky daddy favorite of Christa) that shit should have tanked 30 years ago.
Fuck RollingStone, good fucking riddance, go die and shit.
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//////////Posted February 23rd, 2010 at 12:57 pm
@MidgeRidget, Naw, it’s still on the www. try again.
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February 22nd, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Think I may have a party to celebrate the cessation of Rolling Stone. Gonna have an alt party photographer cover it, and going to hire Girls, AnCo, Beach House, Best Coast, and Toro y Moi to provide some music.
“The cessation of Rolling Stone is ~2000 gargantuan steps forward for the alt community, and ~4637 steps backward for mnstrms.”
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February 22nd, 2010 at 5:53 pm
feel like rollingstone should move to tumblr and cause mad controversey [via stealing the current 'ded' rollingstone.tumblr.com]
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February 22nd, 2010 at 6:12 pm
tumblr stole rollingstone.com for pitchfork
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February 22nd, 2010 at 6:19 pm
rollingstone is a giant suck
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February 22nd, 2010 at 7:02 pm
WIKID KLOWNZ
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February 23rd, 2010 at 11:48 am
I think it’s a Firefox issue…
BTW: this article sucks.
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February 23rd, 2010 at 8:31 pm
‘Huh’?! rollingstone.com is still ‘up’!
‘Pretty whack’ reporting Carles.
Doesn’t Hipster Runoff have ‘fact-checkers’?!
I’m ’seriously wondering’ if yall are ‘professional journalists’ or ‘just a bunch of f**king amateurs’?
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February 25th, 2010 at 12:38 am
Does anyone remember when hro was hacked? Or are there none left to tell the tale?
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