Is SPIN really circling the drain?

SPIN's been mailed to my mom's house for free since prolly 3 years ago. No one knows why.

My mom's house has been getting Complex for similarly mysterious reasons for about the same amount of time. Are these magazines related?

Sometimes my mom visits my house and shows up with a paper bag, and that's when I know that I'm getting a stack of these:

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^^ reads like my kind of mag. Although Saecco, Vanzetti, Passantino and Winegarten sounds even better.

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wait has whiney hired dom?

hee hee, i got complex in the mail for free for about four years. i think it's stopped now. but i always wanted to tell my postman: "i don't really read this mag, seriously! don't judge!"

a friend of mine gets three free subscriptions of time out ny

complex smells gross

zooey d smells gross

you have a free subscription to zooey d?

i'll forward it to your address

zooey's last breath, circling the drain

Is Ultragrrrl doing anything of note these days?

complex's content exists almost entirely online. the magazine itself usually seems to have pretty bare bones content

everything seems bare about it judging by the covers

do you think when they are blocking out the cover design for guy magazines they have placeholders that are just like [SOMETHING PENILE]

are even the eyes actually Katy Perry's in that "Katy Perry" photo?

Who's looking at her eyes?

ultragrrrl is doing those crappy VH1 countdown/best-of shows last I checked

last heard about her when she was getting joan of arced on village voice's cover

rip 2006

I see Whiney has put his foot down

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Magazines Killed The Twitter Star

As long as it's an augmentation rather than a replacement, then yeah, I don't see what's wrong with that. Though I like incredibly negative reviews as well as incredibly positive ones.

140 words? That's a novel. These guys do it in almost half the number of words.

Um, tweets are 140 *characters*, not words.

"character" is a word, emil.y, get it together.

Ah, a mere Tweet. My bad.

It is an agumentation, they say they will still do 20 long form reviews a month on the website, but that seems like a hugely reduced number from what their print mag was hitting per month before they went to bimonthly. I don't know, I love Whiney and I enjoyed his original project and I know this is inevitable, but I find this turn depressing as fuck. I like to read well thought-out longform criticism. I also know that will still exist other places, just disappointed that this is a step in the wrong direction.

i guess i have no idea what anyone here means by "longform" but spin certainly wasn't publishing any long form criticism in its magazine

Well, thats true, but still.

I just pulled the "longform" quote from Whiney's release. Problem is that I don't see many people to be as creative and clever with tweet reviews as Whiney was.

honestly i think that pulling out 20 of the most important records a month for "longform review" treatment (that is a lot of records, btw) while just lumping everything else into a grab bag of bite sized blurbs makes as much sense as one 500 word review and twenty 80 word blurbs

Like I said, it was inevitable, but I'd still rather read those 80 word blurbs than 140 characters. Minor point, but keep in mind these 140 characters will need to convey artist and title, those 80 word blurbs were at least free of that limitation.

I know I'm getting old man yells at clouds here, but I really hate this massive rush to abbreviate our exposure to culture.

Love that line about "under-covered genres" like hip-hop, metal and chart pop.

BY SPIN was i think the implication there

But, lets also remember that cokemachineglow proves that longer reviews are by no means inherently better.

lol

It just makes it feel like Spin in running on fumes in the ideas department. Like, that's the best thing you could come up with? An idea that's already been done, was fun for five minutes in 2009, but is well past its sell-by date at this point?

you don't spend a lot of time around here do you

It will give Whiney more time to complain about hipsters on ilx.

Makes me feel like Position Position was running on fumes in the criticism department.

Fart fumes.

lol

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anything that makes people mention/talk about/think about spin magazine can only be a good thing. at this late date.

I didn't know whiney even had a job tbh

if it were possible to discuss this decision without Whiney getting super-aggro, it's an interesting and "important" decision with much to say about it, but lol at anybody who thinks Whiney didn't go into this with an "oh boy, lemme scrap with some people about this, I love to argue" attitude

I have the impression Whiney does everything with that attitude - ordering coffee, picking out socks, changing the channel on the TV

it's an interesting and "important" decision with much to say about it

i will be very surprised if anyone is thinking about this feed by 01/13.

(bc the mayans will have destroyed the world)