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Author: breno
Date: 07-30-12 17:16
Spin apparently has just laid off 1/3 of their staff (including the editor in chief) and canceled their fall print issue. (An August issue will come out as planned.)
Looks like it will shortly be joining the distinguished ranks of websites that were once magazines.
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Author: Jermoe
Date: 07-31-12 09:20
Has anyone checked out their website? As Charles Barkley would say, "it's turrible."
http://www.spin.com/
Ugly design and awful functionality.
I remember picking up Massive Attack's Blue Lines after Spin touted it as one of "The 10 Best Albums You Didn't Hear This Year" in 1991. They were right about that one. Apollo Smile's self-titled debut, however...
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Author: Aitch
Date: 07-31-12 11:24
They also included a TLC platter in their 90 best albums of the 90s issue.
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Author: dj45rpm
Date: 07-31-12 14:32
And this is less than a month after they got bought by Buzzmedia ("whose stable of websites includes Stereogum, Idolator, and KimKardashian.com".
That should have been a warning sign right there...)
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Author: mats84
Date: 08-04-12 04:28
There was a time in the late 80s I guess where Spin had some really compelling stuff that you weren't getting in other magazines (that were easily available anyway).
In the 90s I thought their writing became as lunkheaded as the whole alternative explosion - their Spin Alternative Record Guide is particularly inane. Eric Weisbard's brief tenure there and his writing in the magazine always irked me alot and everyone there seemed to write like him for a stretch. Bad taste, mixed with bad writing, not a good combo.
I think it's actually been better recently in terms of content so that is sad that it might be done. It's shocking how little music criticism you can find in the mainstream press now - movie criticism too.
Anybody read Entertainment Weekly anymore? One or two sentences per review.
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