Review: Journalists with attitude star in 'Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine'

To anyone starting out in music journalism around 2000, "Almost Famous" - director Cameron Crowe's warm-and-fuzzy remembrance of his adventures as a teenage Rolling Stone writer - felt about as old-timey as that year's other big music-historical fantasy, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

Twenty years later, a new documentary about Rolling Stone's happily scrappy competitor, Creem magazine, offers an even less relatable portrait of rock