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October 02, 2008

Jann Wenner launches Rolling Stone Australia: 'there's more music going on in Sydney than in New York'

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Wenner is here for the relaunch of the Australian version of Rolling Stone, which was recently bought by ACP Magazines. He also attended last night’s launch party, nostalgically called The Rolling Stone Revival, featuring performances by local heroes the Living End, Powderfinger and Neil Finn.

To compete with the global nature of internet news, Wenner says the new Australian Rolling Stone will focus more on local issues and music.

“There’s a really vibrant music scene here. In a way, there’s more music going on in Sydney than in New York, so to really work well, you need to be the definitive bible on the local music scene.”


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10 Comments

#1 You Know You're Right says:

That's got to be one of the most ignorant and stupid things to say, more music in Sydney than in NYC. Australia is typically 5-10 years behind on music. If it wasn't for Pav and Modular cultivating the few forward thinking artists there, they'd be even farther back. Wenner is so out of touch.

#2 brother mayhem says:

of course Jann thinks that Australia has a better music scene, look who he has featured on RS this year. Jonas Brothers, Jack Johnson, Britney Spears, The Eagles Metallica, Chris Rock(twice) , Robert Downey Jr., Barack, Bush...

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#4 djd says:

"... And the American economy is on the verge of collapsing, too."

#5 Sean says:

perhaps a better way to word it would have been australia has a more interesting music scene. face it, it's true. new york is lost in repetition right now. you can only hear so many rapture-lites before you start tuning it out. the innovators are not coming from nyc right now. i'm sure that will change because nyc always manages to recapture the zeitgeist eventually, but it isn't happening right now.

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#10 frank says:

I agree with Sean (#5). There's a lot of good stuff coming out of Australia these days. The DJs there (Kato, Spruce Lee) seem to have a harder, grittier style that a lot of young listeners really seem to be digging. Also, I saw Cut Copy at a club in San Francisco about a week ago and the sold-out crowd went nuts for them. I know that's just a few examples but IMO it looks like there's a lot of music there that Generation American Apparel (you heard that term here first, from me) really seems to connect to . . .

Not to dis NYC, but what have they brought to the table lately?


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