The January issue of Rolling Stone features Beijing punk rock / hard core band Subs on the cover. The feature story about them recounts the story of their formation and describes some of their recent tours to Europe.
Another feature article in this issue is about foreigners in the Chinese rock scene.
You may notice that the Rolling Stone logo has returned to the cover of the magazine. When the first issue of the magazine came out in March last year, to much fanfare, it used the full size English Rollin Stone logo, like the U.S. edition. The publishers were promptly visited by officials from Shanghai’s News Publication Bureau who told them to take the English logo off the cover. A few months ago, the logo started appearing on the over again, although it still quite a bit smaller than it was on the first issue.
When it launched, the magazine was published with the Chinese title 音像世界, a Shanghai-based publication license. It is now being published with a different Chinese publication license: 音乐时空 a title belonging to the Guizhou Artists Association (贵州文联). Shanghai’s media authorities are in many ways the most conservative in the country, so Rolling Stone probably has a lot more wiggle room when dealing with their new southwestern partners in Guiyang.
- Danwei: Rolling Stone China: a dud that will probably succeed (with cover scan of first issue)
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- Danwei: Rolling Stone hits wall
- Danwei: Sensationalist headlines at the Wall Street Journal: foreign magazines in China
- Danwei: Rolling Stone: raped but still alive (with cover scan of second issue)