Is SPIN really circling the drain?

I think Sinaii, Beak>, Carter Tutti Void, Pallbearer and three footwork records is pretty good weirdo bait!

haha i disliked the cater tutti void record a lot and i didnt really like beak> either. im going to listen to pallbearer and sinaii tho...

xpost, yeah! I detailed a lot of em in my review!

Oh, hang on, I'll actually go read the thing, that might be an idea.

Sinaii was great

The Air album very good too

Sinaii Siinai is real good!

Yall can still stream the DJ Rashad off the site. It's my album of the year... SO FAR

it's on spotify too, i'll try to check it tomorrow

i would never have predicted W.G.'s footwork-obsession

i saw that tweet whiney, and appreciated the acknowledgement, just thought you could've done like one more considering your very vocal stance last year. admittedly, this is DUMB INTERNET STUFF, no doubt.

regardless, the music is what matters: thanks for pointing me to Siinai, that shit is awesome. going to check out Rashad right now.

oh just saw your "... SO FAR" on the Rashad post, well played, i lol'd. ignore me, dogg.

man, next thing you know whiney's gonna be cool with white guys writing memoir pieces about their hip-hop fanship

This Siinai is good and all, but I would still take Circle over them any day of the week.

okay Beak> better be good, this is total DJP-bait:

A mysterious, groggy post-punk fidget from Portishead's Geoff Barrow

also Carter Tutti Void

Beak> is honestly one of the best bands going right now

I like the way they draw a little picture of a beak after their name! Are they following Sunn O)))'s example? More bands should do this!

Wire _____

Helmet B

do Beak> actually have a new record or

hahaha

I started Mordy's playlist and was all "this Actress album is all right but it totally sounds like they ripped off Roni Size wholesale"

Then I realized that right before I left work yesterday I dumped New Forms into my play queue

Beak> have an OK new record, I really like that Anika album they did xp

Anika was the shit. Beak> is the followup? Rad!

Anika was 2010, Beak was 2009.

Barrow has just released albums as hip-hop group Quakers and Judge Dredd-themed industrial thingo Drokk, too, btw, hence me being surprised he might have a third newie out

Yeah, I was gonna say, I didn't realise Beak> had a new record out, I really liked the first one.

Siinai soundcloud all up in my tabs right now.

i liked seeing the new kathleen edwards on the list, but it's far from being her best album (as the accompanying review claims)

agree with Mordy: it's her third best, at best, behind Asking For Flowers and Failer ... by a good distance, i'd say.

i might put it ahead of Back To Me, but i also am not sure i've given that one the time it deserves to really make that call

i agree 100% - Asking for Flowers > Failer > new one > Back to Me

Asking for Flowers so good really, it was hard not to be let down, even tho i think there's a lot of great material on this one

I've tried to look at Whiney's click-through-fest but it keeps bouncing back to the home page, whether I click, ctrl+click or right-click->open in new tab - Invada's most recent listed release for BEAK> is a split LP from August 2011; what's on the Spin list?

A new Beak> record called >>, I assume.

You guys can shit on the list all you want, but if I turn at least one person on to Sinaii, then I feel like I've done my part for the year!
― la musica de harry frogbs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:35 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In that case consider your job done! Phenomenal record.

A new Beak> record called >>, I assume.

― hot knives, wind was blowin' (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:36 (10 hours ago) Permalink

:) it is

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/spin-magazine-being-sold-to-buzzmedia-with-plans-to-expand-online-reach/

huh

would be too bad if the revamped print edition died in the cradle like this

i'm sure Buzzmedia will do what's right

i haven't even gotten my first issue since i subscribed! they are totally going to saddle me with a lifetime sub to Complex aren't they.

ugh. that awful company.

Okay that Laurie's Planet of Sound 'Do Not Buy' thing is pretty hilarious. Although, man, refusing to buy "2nd Tier Hip Hop" and "60s/70s Artist's CDs from the 80s/90s/2000s" sound pretty dumb. I mean, a man has to get his No Limit and Trans somewhere, right?

http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style620_413/public/120718-do-not-buy-list.png

it's 2012, of course a list of used CDs not to buy errs on the side of not buying

it's funny how much analysis and traction this thing has gotten on social media - people should kiss the ground if they find a place that will take any of their cds

so odd to see a band as obscure as luttenbachers on that list, assuming they mean flying luttenbachers?

people should kiss the ground if they find a place that will take any of their cds

Seriously. Some of the criticism of this list has seemed pretty dumb to me, like it's been written by someone who has never been to a used record/cd store and doesn't understand how they work.

xp yeah well the store's in chicago, my distant impression is that they are swimming in that stuff

what are people criticizing?

i'm assuming it just means that's stuff that they already have in stock and never sells anyway, right?

i wasn't aware of any analysis really, i just thought it was more of a "lol remember Geggy Tah" thing

yeah it's not a ton but you really can''t post a list of bands in a negative light on the net without a little hand-wringing

"love battery" should really be proud of the fact that they're still a stain on used bins

i'm assuming the original list was printed out years and years ago, w/ the handwritten additions more recent

what are people criticizing?

I've seen this list on tumblr, and there's been commentary saying the list was sexist because there were a lot of female artists.

haha oh jeez