Rolling Stone Slams Into Homes; Enlightens Many

Rolling Stone Magazine is one of the most known magazines in America, if not the most well known altogether. It was first introduce to the public on November 9, 1967 by Jann Wenner. It's contents are usually music based, however, when Wenner released it said that Rolling Stone "is not just about the music, but about the things and attitudes that music embraces."

One look at the magazine, and both your neocortex and limbic brain go haywire with all the captions and sexy singers plastered all over its cover. As  the magazine and technology grew older, Rolling Stone created a website. This technological shift from just paper to digital media allowed them to do a lot more than just have pretty pictures of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Now they are able to post music Videos, Photos, Articles, Artist Bios, and pretty much anything else you can possibly think of putting on the internet thanks to their Aesthetic shift towards media convergence.


Rolling Stone has always used different production techniques, their covers are always new, exciting, and well put together. They are aesthetically pleasing and never disappoint. Artists such as Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show have written songs about getting their pictures on the cover of the magazine. Having your picture on the cover used to be a great honor, and hard to do. Now that I see this cover however, I'm thinking Rolling Stone has lowered its standards:

Now this is obviously a persuasive technique that uses "beautiful" people to sell their product. Justin Beiber is loved by middle school girls all over the country, and having his new haircut on the cover of the magazine will sell millions of copies to pre-teen girls everywhere.