That all changed with an editorial published by Joseph Hudak in January of 2017 just after the inauguration of President Trump, which directly called for country artists to get political, and on the liberal side. And for the first couple of years of the publication, the subdomain honored its pledge to keep the politics to Rolling Stone proper. We are planning think pieces about the Bro-Country movement, and why it’s so hard for a record label to break a female act over a male act.”īeville Dunkerley has since left the publication to become the Head of Nashville Artist Marketing & Industry Relations for Pandora, while Senior Editor Joseph Hudak who was also brought on board early in the process has remained in Rolling Stone Country‘s top spot.
But as far as the politics of country music, absolutely. “As far as government politics, hell no!” said Beville Dunkerley in May of 2014, assuring readers the publication would not engage in political discourse as part of its country music coverage. Country music became the first genre Rolling Stone chose to cover in a dedicated manner, and with the publication being a traditionally liberal outlet, and country music being one of the more traditionally conservative genres in the United States, this set up the politicization of country music coverage as a potential flash point.Īddressing the worries of many that the new Rolling Stone Country venture would not just be about music, but would be a Trojan horse for political coverage and cultural media bias, Saving Country Music reached out to the publication’s original Senior Editor for clarification on the what the new subdomain’s coverage map would be before the website’s launch. The decision by Rolling Stone to focus on country music came in 2014 when the genre and the media covering it were undergoing great expansion due to the popularity of Bro-Country.
When Rolling Stone first announced plans to open a dedicated subdomain for the country music genre, there were concerns that a publication known for mixing left-leaning political commentary with music and culture reporting would take this same approach to country music, potentially politicizing the country music space in a manner we haven’t seen before, and ultimately stirring unnecessary conflict.
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