Is SPIN really circling the drain?

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

"until edie brickell is treated with equality, none of us are treated with equality"

Melissa Etheridge and K.D. Lang being the only two names highlighted in blue is pretty eyebrow-raising, though

Love Battery owns

cause the store wouldn't buy it back

i think the suggestion is that "this is bad music" or at least that's what people would like to pretend in honor of furthering the meme

that's a pretty tortured zing there xpost

list is biased against obscure punk comps. fuck you, list

^otmfm

the grifters (i think?) seem like an odd inclusion. are there tons of used grifters CDs floating around? & yeah obscure punk comps -- that seems like the kind of thing that used CD stores would want? obscure things?

that's a pretty tortured zing there xpost

― that one guy (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, July 18, 2012 2:34 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

doesn't love laboured wordplay, apparently

<3

i used to live down the block from this place. them not buying 2nd tier hip hop explains a few of my bounced checks circa 2009

think 'obscure punk comps' means like sampler CDs from Asian Man or that kind of third tier dealie

okay finally looked at the pic and STING is killing me

no wai, ebullition & sound pollution xp

oh shit asian man record, that's a cold shot

really loved the loud issue, but this latest one is a terrible bore. we've got a painfully out of touch article on bath salts (featuring a journo who walks into a smoke shop to buy cigarettes), a vague piece on waaves & best coast (featuring a masturbatory allotment for each of them to posture their california loves), a page after page spanning article on how prominent bands like to chill on tour ... i'm an admitted bore myself, i admit, being such a whiney bitch. but this one is just so disposable i really, really hope the next issue redeems what excitement/anticipation the initial 2 issues since the reboot have invigorated in me.

masturbatory allotment? I thought they closed that place down!

we've got a painfully out of touch article on bath salts

well hey i learned something from it