So I'm watching part one of the two-part HBO doc ROLLING STONE: STORIES FROM THE EDGE, and early on there's an anecdote about IKE TURNER complaining about how Rolling Stone burned him by running a profile with too much behind-the-scenes dirt after he invited the magazine into his home, and it reminds me of how Wenner is currently at war with his official biographer, JOE HAGAN, for exactly the same reason, with Jann in the role of Ike, and I'm thinking that a rolling stone gathers some irony, doesn't it? And that's going to be the subject of today's RANTNRAVE, but then, but then... really, HBO? Really, Rolling Stone? Are you seriously trying to convince me and anyone else who might be watching that JON LANDAU's 1974 "rock and roll future" review of BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, quite possibly the most famous rock review ever, was written for Rolling Stone??? Because it wasn't. I rewind to make sure I'm not hallucinating like HUNTER S. THOMPSON, who was onscreen a minute ago, and no, I'm not. I pause and scan the screen to make sure I'm not missing any details. I am not. That's what the doc is strongly implying. That's what it's in fact saying. Landau, who did work for Rolling Stone and who eventually became Springsteen's producer and manager and lots of other things that job titles don't quite cover, wrote it for the REAL PAPER, a groundbreaking, influential CAMBRIDGE, MASS., alt-weekly. The long-forgotten Real Paper. Which not even Rolling Stone or HBO can remember even though JEFF DANIELS is reading extensively from Jon Landau's Real Paper article on my TV screen at this very moment. And I am now throwing a copy of the LA WEEKLY, which is all I have handy here in 2017, at the TV. It's a totally fun doc, no question. Amazing, rare performance footage and home-movie-like footage of life at RS. Funny stories. Moving stories. Pop-culture history. Naked groupies (hey, it *is* HBO). Worth watching. But. But. Part two airs at 9 pm ET tonight... One of the greatest pieces of music journalism ever written did appear in Rolling Stone, in May 2000. RIAN MALAN's chronicle of the long, complicated copyright history of the song "THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT" is a beautifully researched and written post-graduate course in how music is created, how it travels around the world, how it's co-opted, how creators are forgotten and unpaid, and how they can eventually be remembered and paid if someone cares enough and is willing to fight like a lion. Essential reading... The ACLU takes the music blog POPFRONT's side against TAYLOR SWIFT... BJÖRK really wants to turn her fans on to the cryptocurrency AUDIOCOIN... I'm all for theater and satire and confrontational speech, but this was a really bad idea, MARILYN MANSON... The hip-hop community is stunned by MEEK MILL's two-to-four-year sentence for probation violations... RIP "EVERLASTING LOVE" singer ROBERT KNIGHT and "DOCTOR WHO" composer DUDLEY SIMPSON.