Is SPIN really circling the drain?

WTF?

their coolest parties section and last night parties picture seciton is really just plain awful

Spin (online, I hope) conflates Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein:

CORIN TUCKER

Dates: October 7-29
Price:$16
Opening 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

chicks, man

that clause has been taken out btw

lol

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.

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.

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.

Oh no, according to google the Bikini Kill/Magazine Burning thing has vanished from history completely. How sad.

I want to say March 5, 2002. Stupid internet.

I mean 1992. Duh.

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!

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.

http://www.adweek.com/news/press/spin-magazine-going-bimonthly-135459

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.

this could be cool

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.

SPIN has done a horrible job preserving its history. You gotta go to Google Books to read an old story.

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..."

oh yeah, thats totally otm

'will ever'? i mean i dont read spin & havent ever really but i dont see what's stopping them from having a web presence

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

i just started writing for them so i'm sure they'll fold any day now

(that's what happened to blender)

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.

where are the taxpayer bailouts for print music mags

http://www.theonion.com/articles/failing-us-economy-no-reason-at-all-to-stop-invest,21251/

like, just hire ppl that draw traffic. there's no big trick to it

― dangobro (D-40), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 3:38 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol -- carles already works for grantland

the idea of having 'the right traffic-attracting writers' to keep a mag/site afloat is kind of laughable tbh

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

??? 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'!

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

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

its not an either/or thing

1000TimesYes 11:39am via Web As of today, I'm the new Senior Editor at @SPINmagazine. Big shit poppin, little shit stoppin: bit.ly/oaEFMc
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ILX FEATURES NOW

congrats! now give me work haha

beatles features now

beatles features now

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

Charles Aaron's still there? Wow!

He's been writing for them since at least 1994.

congrats chris! i'm sure spin won't be circling the drain as long as our boy is drowning the competition

Whiny, you're in charge of ladling soup at the ILX Rock Critics homeless shelter.

congrats whiney! \(^o^)/ \(^o^)/

lol @ al

congrats whiney! \(^o^)/ \(^o^)/

― markers, Tuesday, October 11, 2011 2:42 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol @ al

― The boyboy young jess (D-40), Tuesday, October 11, 2011 2:45 PM Bookmark

is there gonna be a regular Whiney rant feature?