Rolling Stone

• Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson opened the Unexpected Connections: Catalyzing the Creative Economy conference by touting the Launch Beach: 100 Startups Campaign and thanking Sunstone Management, Inc., and Imprint Venture Lab for partnering with the city for the initiative.
• Unexpected Connections was put on Thursday, Oct. 5, by Intertrend Communications and its nonprofit affiliate, Creative Class Collective, with sponsorship from the Long Beach Economic Partnership and Sunstone Management, Inc., along with others.
• And Imprint Venture Lab is leading the way, managing the first $5 million to support creative startups.
• Architecture and entertainment are the two largest sectors of the creative industry in Long Beach at 43% each.

• Fittingly, the release also coincides with UMe’s continued celebration of rap’s 50th birthday, Hip-Hop 50, as well.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231006816734/en/
  It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back will be available in either 4-LP 180gram vinyl and 2LP 180 gram vinyl—pressed on limited-run red or standard.
• So, we took that and went further with It Takes a Nation, approaching it like a rock band.
• Public Enemy first dropped It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back on an unsuspecting world on June 28, 1988.

• But there really was a time when exposure to culture was mediated by curators who had far too much power over what we all saw, heard or experienced.
• We had a film press, a television press, a literary press – and a music press.
• Nonetheless, I would read rock publications voraciously and I never passed up the opportunity to contribute.
• There were also things that Fell failed (or perhaps chose not) to include.

Molly, Lily and Go-Set

• Set up by university students, whose only prior experience was Monash University’s paper, Go-Set quickly filled a need for information and connection among pop fans.
• Enthusiastic writers like Lily Brett, Ian (Molly) Meldrum, Johnny Young and Douglas Panther conveyed the inside story of the lives of musicians and celebrities, while maintaining a particular accessibility for their “teens and twenties” readers.
• Go-Set’s publisher, Philip Frazer, went on, in a haphazard way, to bring a Rolling Stone franchise to Australia.

Street papers: ‘uniquely Australian’

• Their extensive advertising revenue from venues, record companies and related industries allowed these publications to be provided at no cost.
• The street paper killed RAM and Juke, not by being anywhere near as good, but far, far cheaper.
• Fell loves the “street papers”, and one gets the sense he would happily have written about them alone.
• Read more:
  How a 'pot-smoking, acid-gobbling smart-arse' became the producer behind some of Australia's greatest music

Undeniable soap operas

• What’s the word for respecting an author’s restraint, while wishing there was just a bit more goss within their pages?
• Of course, there were many links between the producers of music magazines and the people they wrote about.
• By links, I don’t just mean romantic or domestic entanglements, though I do mean that, of course.
• There are also great, undeniable soap operas.
• A public spat between Steve Kilbey of The Church and music journalist Stuart Coupe in the early 1980s springs to mind.

Smash Hits and Rolling Stone

• Back to the topic of Countdown: Fell pays its competitor, Australian Smash Hits, minimal notice.
• Fell didn’t talk to anyone from (or even really about) Australian Smash Hits.
• Rolling Stone has, of course, a 50-year history in Australia.
• Whereas Australian Smash Hits was often criticised for including content from its British parent, the first decade of Rolling Stone in this country was typically little more than a distillation of old cut-and-pastes from the American magazine.

‘I thought it was sci-fi nonsense’

• I was impressed that he believed it, but I thought it was sci-fi nonsense.
• Of course, there is still a music press: look at the preposterously overblown global influence of Pitchfork, for instance.
• In Australia, the music press only takes print form in the most boutique of varieties, like Melbourne magazine Efficient Space.

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