The new Rolling Stone: ‘More immediate, more visceral’ and tougher on Eric Clapton

“We’re one hundred pc going to shine a lightweight on dangerous actors,” he advised me, as we walked by way of Rolling Stone’s Midtown headquarters, the place a stunning video wall rotates by way of a historical past of journal covers: Mick Jagger, Madonna, Bruno Mars, Beyonce and naturally, Clapton. In doing so, he needs Rolling Stone to face aside from a lot of leisure journalism, which “tends to be both fawning and borderline embarrassing, or pure gossip.”