I stopped buying music magazines a long time ago when I thought that they had really crossed the line between music discovery and writting to entertainment industry ass licking and bandwagonesque social consciousness pieces.
Rolling Stone, Spin, these magazines read more like GQ and US magazine than ones about music. Look in the back and you will probable find more ads for male enhancement products as you would for music stuff.
You want your music magazine back? Got and get a subscription to Magnet Magazine. Bands. Lots of bands. Opinions. Actual opinions about music. And you don’t need to get 25 pages past Gucci and Loreal hair color ads to get the table of contents. You even get a compilation CD with each issue.