Is SPIN really circling the drain?

fair enough

"Asphalt can be used to cover cobblestones. It can be taken home (if no one is lookin'). Asphalt should not be confused with, with, with, with . . . asbestos. Confuse them at your own risk. Insects will sometimes live in cement but never asphalt. Asphalt soup tastes like tar. Asphalt soap does not clean especially well. Asphalt dopes are QUITE dopey. They know nothing of asphalt (having never seen it); some live in Alaska." And now, here, the subject matter is simply gone, erased; it's not even a point to be walked away from. The screen, camera, page is blank, and Meltzer is just writing. How does it feel to be on your own?

"Asphalt dopes are QUITE dopey. They know nothing of asphalt (having never seen it); some live in Alaska." This can be connected to his (70s, 80s?) point about "Xerox rock," where we get copies of copies of copies, graying out, as time goes by.

http://adage.com/article/media/craig-marks-named-editor-chief-spin/293699/

Music website Spin.com has named Craig Marks its editor in chief.

Mr. Marks was executive editor of Spin magazine in the 1990s before helping to introduce Blender magazine. "I've always been very involved in music journalism and I think Spin is the best place I could possibly be for that," he told Ad Age.

best place

Spin.com had 679,000 mobile and desktop unique visitors in May, up 5% from a year ago, according to ComScore.

lol

spin's reviews section is going away effective 8/31

sounds about right

oof

:(

so what will they be… doing?

LISTICLES!

http://www.ioffer.com/img/item/110/923/967/LGGRmfBPDmOc9XZ.jpg

over ten years ago

Their website is really making me sad.

loooooool

i don't really read music reviews tho

6/10 I Miss Yous

the only rating system that matters

So Carl Wilson's going to be the senior critic for ten days?

this is the slowest drain. needs some liquid plumber...

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senior critic in charge of listicles?

senior criticle

Wonder if he knew what his status would be when he just left Slate...

The only surprise here is that there are still 19 people left at Spin Media to fire.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/09/8552208/spin-media-lays-19-kills-emvibeem-print-edition

They have a lot of sites still! From their site:

SPIN Idolator Brooklyn Vegan Stereogum Gorilla vs Bear PureVolume Pretty Much Amazing XLR8R Buzznet Concrete Loop Alter The Press Absolute Punk Under The Gun Review Punk News PropertyOfZack Direct Lyrics Vibe Celebuzz The Frisky Celebslam Crunktastical Egotastic Fanpop Go Fug Yourself Pink is the New Blog Socialite Life The Superficial Videogum WWTDD

Although I guess they shut down Videogum so that list might be a bit out of date...

The Superficial and WWTDD payin' everybody else's salaries.

Misogyny is a great business plan.

Phil knows that as well as anyone

Not really; I got laid off from my porn job almost a decade ago. My salary was too high. Sound familiar?

Before the latest cuts:

Spin has been through multiple rounds of layoffs. In early 2013, the company reportedly had about 250 staffers. Its current headcount, Blackwell told Capital, is “just north of 120,” plus freelancers

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/08/8550866/beleaguered-spin-medias-new-ceo-stephen-blackwell-lays-out-plan

http://www.spin.com/writers/carl-wilson/

Spin's review section for albums now being released may be gone, but Carl got to write about the new U2.

thank god there's somewhere we can go to read an old white dude write about U2

http://img.izismile.com/img/img5/20120109/1000/daily_gifdump_10.gif

Talking of U2 and old dudes, I notice Rolling Stone's obligatory five-star David Fricke review has been published. Didn't see that one coming.

you're gonna be an old white dude one day jordan

is that track 4 of the new album?

to the tune of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF4GS9cSll4

See ya:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/269917/spin-loses-another-editor-in-chief/

So the claim to fame of Spin's current CEO, Stephen Blackwell, who dropped EIC Marks, is just having run website death and taxes

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6251409/spinmedia-ceo-qa-with-stephen-blackwell

Who's going to fill the positions left by departing employees, like those from SPIN?

There had been changes in the workforce on a property-by-property basis. Acquisitions are delicate, and when there’s an acquisition, a lot of times that can lead to people leaving because values might change or missions might change. When I came here and looked at the scope of what our workforce is actually doing, we’ve got an incredible team here. We’re a little light on the editorial side in my opinion, so I'm treating our brands as best as I can; how do our brands function in the market and with our audiences. The way that I’m building the team back up is with a focus on that, and making sure we have an agreeable split between how many editors and people not on editorial. We’ll be hiring eventually for people to fill those positions, and creating new positions.

a staff of three people seems light, yeah

tbf lots of places are lax about updating their About pages: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spin.com/about/

Carl Wilson back at Slate too.

the extended spin joke running through tonight's SOUTH PARK was pretty fun

wow what was that???

https://twitter.com/bookofriot

joshua clover writing epic story of #HowIQuitSpin rn

He really doesn't like Charles Aaron.

hashtag how i got tricked into reading a 9/11 memoir

yeah christ

It's also a "leaving New York" memoir.