Is SPIN really circling the drain?

ya even business insider has that option

i will read almost anything if its easy to see and read. cuz i LOVE wasting time.

It was our highest trafficked article of the entire month of march so \o_O/

Where article = the first page? How many people made it to the end?

Or does viewing each page count as 1 article view? I mean come on dude, surely you can agree this kind of formatting is not ideal w/o pulling out numbers and stuff.

if i can't Read It Later i ain't innerested

^^^^^^^

Doran, some real talk from across the pond. I'm very psyched on this feature

http://thequietus.com/articles/06869-portishead-bakers-dozen

But I'm not psyched to click through 14 things to read it.

― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 17:07 (6 months ago) Permalink

*moistens lips*

Doran, some real talk from across the pond. I'm very psyched on this feature

http://thequietus.com/articles/06869-portishead-bakers-dozen

But I'm not psyched to click through 14 things to read it.

― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 17:07 (6 months ago) Permalink

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hate the game, not the player

gettin high as a rooftop/contradict myself in my rhymes like i'm tupac

loved keith harris's spin meat loaf review! even if i do disagree with him about bat out of hell.

if yr ad sales guys can really still sell placement off of high numbers on paginated articles then bully for you but thats gonna get less and less possible

i love jordan's Action Bronson review and you should all read that instead of arguing over Jeff Weiss's because it was in your boyfriend, Pitchfork

yeah enjoyed the meat loaf review, especially after meeting keith at EMP and being able to kind of hear it in his voice

i'm really ridiculously proud of our review section right now.

so nice to finally meet keith in nyc! i am a long time fan.

i'd be more proud if i were reviewing something HINT HINT

yeah I was impressed by the breadth of the section

whiney been reading some reviews off the Reviews hub page, some good stuff

one bit of (hopefully constructive) criticism:

when you're on the main Reviews hub, the reviews seem to be categorized in three ways: Critical Mass, Spin Essentials, and Worst New Music

however -- and this is especially the case with Critical Mass (the most common category) -- it's a bit frustrating/confusing not being able to tell before you click whether it's a full review or just one of the Twitter-style micro-reviews...I think it would be smart to call readers' attention to the long-form reviews in some way, or at least give them a way to tell which is which.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCXW64cw5NM

Have discovered many a new album in 2012 thanks to @SPINreviews btw

:)

I was impressed by the breadth of the section

this feels like a big butt appreciation rap quote

I met whiney once but I don't remember what his butt looks like :(

it's glorious

I was in the bathroom at a party/seder last night and saw the revamped spin. Looks so much nicer than the last issue I'd seen years ago. Looking good!

got my sleigh bells ish last night will report back

thx 4 the heads up

just wanted you to relax, you seem so tense

i feel much better now knowing you got yr sleigh bells ish

That was the issue in the loo, too. Loved the full-page concert photos, closer to Interview than Rolling Stone.

the current size/logo/artwork makes it looks like an issue of life magazine from 1970. i havent opened it yet. (as ive mentioned earlier i receive spin for free even though i never ordered it)

lmao

i hope i didn't get the loo, too copy

haven't read through this thread yet, but does anyone know if forks got his sleigh bells ish yet?

i was worried abt that too

http://files.myopera.com/melnichuck/blog_img/silent_prayer.jpg

guys i want to help but you won't let me help

i bought the sleigh bells issue about a week after it came to newstands, subscribed roughly 4 weeks later, and just recently got the same issue in the mail

thanks. 5 more to go.

fork if you can't find it check the bathroom at the seder party

uh oh, spin called santigold 'r&b':
http://www.spin.com/#gallery/spins-25-spring-albums-you-gotta-hear?image=10

i know this ruins Spin's business plan but can someone just paste a list of the acts so that i don't have to click through each page?

what do you mean? i love waiting for all the ads to load

worth clicking through to see that the name of the new hives album is "lex hives"

i know this ruins Spin's business plan but can someone just paste a list of the acts so that i don't have to click through each page?

isn't this whiney's biggest pet peeve on other websites?

very very infrequently (maybe once or twice a year on Spin) one of these click-thru galleries will be compelling enough that i'll actually click thru. 100% of the rest of the time i will not read the article. it's not because i am taking a moral stand on it. it is because i am too lazy. this is one of those times.

er, that's maybe once or twice a year on Slate. i've never clicked thru on Spin.

scroll up, we had this convo a couple weeks ago

Thank u Whiney for allowing me to stream the new Off! record today.

http://www.spin.com/articles/hear-offs-ferocious-self-titled-lp

yes yes yes yes

Has the new ish shipped? I've been eagerly checking my mailbox every day for like the past two weeks.

i got it in the mail a couple weeks ago