Chuck Eddy IN ?
Is Chuck the only person that can save SPIN?
What about this as a "dream team" CHUCK & GEETA as a new management editor duo at Spin ?
Chuck ensuring METAL/ Rock coverage, GEETA ensuring the best ELECTRONIC coverage
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Werner Herzog Netflix Quine (ex machina), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Pemberton Exits Spin http://tinyurl.com/lybuz"A replacement has not yet been named."
Well it's time to pitch a new strategy / concept for SPIN?
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link
WTF?
their coolest parties section and last night parties picture seciton is really just plain awful
― kevin barking (arghargh), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Spin (online, I hope) conflates Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein:
CORIN TUCKERDates: October 7-29 Price:$16Opening Acts: Golden Bears, Hungry Ghost Why You Should Go: SPIN named Sleater-Kinney's 1997 release Dig Me Out one of the 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years—and it's not like all that talent just evaporated since the trio went on hiatus in 2006. The Portland, OR-based singer-guitarist—who has been moonlighting as an actor (she starred alongside the Shins' James Mercer in 2009's Some Days Are Better Than Others), comedienne (she performs with SNL's Fred Armisen as ThunderAnt), and blogger (for NPR's Monitor Mix)—will debut songs off her debut solo album, 1,000 Years (out October 5), which she has called her "middle-aged mom record." Yeah... if by "mom" you mean one of music's fiercest feminists and guitar goddesses who happens to have two kids.
Dates: October 7-29 Price:$16Opening Acts: Golden Bears, Hungry Ghost Why You Should Go: SPIN named Sleater-Kinney's 1997 release Dig Me Out one of the 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years—and it's not like all that talent just evaporated since the trio went on hiatus in 2006. The Portland, OR-based singer-guitarist—who has been moonlighting as an actor (she starred alongside the Shins' James Mercer in 2009's Some Days Are Better Than Others), comedienne (she performs with SNL's Fred Armisen as ThunderAnt), and blogger (for NPR's Monitor Mix)—will debut songs off her debut solo album, 1,000 Years (out October 5), which she has called her "middle-aged mom record." Yeah... if by "mom" you mean one of music's fiercest feminists and guitar goddesses who happens to have two kids.
http://www.spin.com/gallery/preview-25-best-fall-tours?page=15#main
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
chicks, man
― maura, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
that clause has been taken out btw
― maura, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― markers, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
In the old days it would have been in print, and Kathleen Hanna would have set fire to a copy on stage. I miss the old days.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
In the old days there's no way it would have made it to print, because five editors would have looked it over before it reached the printers.
― slow a cat sample down 800 percent (Matos W.K.), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
in the old days they would have gone 'wtf is a blogger?' and waited way too long to establish any kind of web presence by which point it was too late and some schmuck in chicago could run circles around them.
― balls, Thursday, 2 September 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh no, according to google the Bikini Kill/Magazine Burning thing has vanished from history completely. How sad.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 2 September 2010 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to say March 5, 2002. Stupid internet.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 2 September 2010 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean 1992. Duh.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 2 September 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
in the old days they would have gone 'wtf is a blogger?' and waited way too long to establish any kind of web presence by which point it was too late and some schmuck in chicago could run circles around them.― balls, Thursday, September 2, 2010 1:32 AM
Touche!
― slow a cat sample down 800 percent (Matos W.K.), Thursday, 2 September 2010 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I hate these reviews where the writer presumes the audience is some fifty year old ignoramus. Like some fat suburban guy is going to get off his butt to see Corin Tucker.
I have nothing against feminism but this preview tells me nothing about the music. I don't go to a show to get a political lecture.
― i just like barbecue rib, whatever (u s steel), Thursday, 2 September 2010 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.adweek.com/news/press/spin-magazine-going-bimonthly-135459
― markers, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I quit buying this a long time ago, but recently subscribed to it via my Nook because of a deal for 50 cents an issue. But, tbh, after the awful Skrillex cover this week, its not even worth the 13 seconds to download anymore.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
this could be cool
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not sure if SPIN will ever have much if any presence on the web tho
"if any"? They do have a fairly frequently updated site now, but its a nightmare because of all the damn click-through listicle shit.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
SPIN has done a horrible job preserving its history. You gotta go to Google Books to read an old story.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
sorry, i didn't mean "presence" as in, like, they literally have a web site that is updated. i mean in terms of hits and/or people going "i read this thing on spin.com today..."
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah, thats totally otm
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
'will ever'? i mean i dont read spin & havent ever really but i dont see what's stopping them from having a web presence
― dangobro (D-40), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
like, just hire ppl that draw traffic. there's no big trick to it
I've never written for Spin, and I can't even remember the last time I read it (10 years ago, maybe?) but this is bad news for a lot of writer friends of mine
― geeta, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
i just started writing for them so i'm sure they'll fold any day now
― the-dream in the witch house (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
(that's what happened to blender)
― the-dream in the witch house (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, yeah--I wrote some reviews for Blender, a while back, and forgot to invoice so I could get paid. Then they folded, so I never did get paid for them.
― geeta, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
where are the taxpayer bailouts for print music mags
― the-dream in the witch house (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/failing-us-economy-no-reason-at-all-to-stop-invest,21251/
― dangobro (D-40), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
― dangobro (D-40), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 3:38 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol -- carles already works for grantland
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
the idea of having 'the right traffic-attracting writers' to keep a mag/site afloat is kind of laughable tbh
― nəverDirty (some dude), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it is -- it was mostly about getting there first, and SPIN.com did not get there first or second or third or fourth or fifth etc IMO
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
??? im not talking about people attracting readers by name recognition (although the Atlantic has proved that is a viable model at some level) but hiring people who ... know how to draw traffic. I mean, there are websites that do this. You don't have to 'be there first'!
― dangobro (D-40), Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
obviously who's writing and what they're writing about is important, but i kinda feel like a site has to do a bunch of other things right in order for that writing to actually generate traffic, and Spin pretty much did all of those things wrong, so the quality of the writing barely enters into it
― nəverDirty (some dude), Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
i mean sure, you can do something like firing the whole idolator staff and hiring some SEO robots, but i'm not sure if that's what SPIN is aiming for w/ their website
altho maybe it is idk -- if so, good luck to them
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
its not an either/or thing
― dangobro (D-40), Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
1000TimesYes 11:39am via Web As of today, I'm the new Senior Editor at @SPINmagazine. Big shit poppin, little shit stoppin: bit.ly/oaEFMc2 retweets
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
ILX FEATURES NOW
― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
congrats! now give me work haha
― geeta, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
beatles features now
― rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Caryn Ganz will replace online editor Mark Bautz, who is leaving the company.Ganz, who has worked at Rollingstone.com and Yahoo, is joined by two other new hires, senior editor Christopher Weingarten and associate editor David Bevan. They’ll work on print and online, supporting Spin’s digital emphasis, said editorial director Charles Aaron.“With the magazine going bimonthly,” Aaron said, “the website has to be of the same caliber and depth of the magazine. I think we’ve struggled with that in the past
http://www.adweek.com/news/press/spin-replaces-online-editor-135710
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
Charles Aaron's still there? Wow!
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link