Is SPIN really circling the drain?

does mojo make money cuz Old dudes like paper

the metal ones seems to be going strong. why not merge with a metal magazine?

Decibel's circulation is way smaller than you think; Revolver cut back from monthly to bi-monthly, and might be disappearing soon; Metal Edge (the one I ran) shut its doors in 2009.

hip-hop weekly?

http://www.hiphopweekly.com/100303-newsite/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Bobbi-Kristina-Dec-4-cover.jpg

Rather than web sites, I think a lot of magazines could do well with e-reader subscriptions. I got the last 2 issues of Spin on my kindle and barely touched the print copy. Few magazines are properly marketing that angle though.

http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/spin-dead-long-live-car-and-driver/

kinda lol but mostly sad

not at all lol unfortunately. very sad though and I agree that I can't exactly find any other magazine I'd prefer? Except i sure as fuck don't want car and driver.

covettes are p cool

that's amazing

"hmmm, what are some things that spin? wheels on cars, they spin!"

sorry, but i'm legally obligated to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9P8FzF6d5s

man I would not have been sad about this prior to the Chris W editorship but the redesigned SPIN has been a very nice thing - I always feel a sort of "local" internet pride when I see it in airports. The redesign was A+. The "you'll get a different mag" is a weird look (in my experience that means that subscribers will find their names in very deep junk mail lists from which they'll never get purged) but whatever. RIP Spin your final fit was terrific.

I'd second all that except that this final coda is weaksauce

I remember driving across town to find a remaining copy of SPIN's first issue. I subscribed after that, and had every issue up until some time in the late 90's.

At some point I lost the early issue that had ZZ Top on the cover, and it always bothered me that it was gone.

I lost sub issues to cancelled Your Flesh, Flipside, Hong Kong Action, Hard Case Crime, Some Boring Indie Alt-Country mag, and was always a dick to the editor/publishers, but nobody ever tried to send me a Motor Trend, or Autobuy instead.

Mags I've handled at my job lately. Filter, Iron Fist[looking forward to reading this], Decibel, AP, Relix, Wire, Mojo, Uncut, Record Collector, BBC Classical, Grammaphone, various guitar mags, Source, XXL, Vibe, Hip-Hop Weekly, Billboard, DJ mix, various computer music making mags, Mix Mag, Prog, Blues, Rock Sound, special issues about zeppelin, paul weller, beatles, joy division, Piano International, Downbeat, Opera Digest, audiophile stuffs, ONE DIRECTION SPECIAL, Word[gone], Spin[ha],

Mags that come to my house. Big Takeover[barely read anymore], Razorcake[depresses me for my own lack of trying].

I don't have much else to say. I was a participant and an observer. I stopped buying and they stopped delivering.

i still have tons of 80's spins in the store if anyone wants to come smell them. they are all perfect kinda. weird when someone brought them in they looked like they were right off the newsstand. i only buy ugly things but that only comes out like twice a year. i feel like i should buy wax poetics but i never do. i would buy mojo and the wire if they sold them in my town. wait, why don't i sell them in my town...and decibel too...i'm kinda dumb. they didn't sell spin anywhere in our town. i would have bought a whiney copy.

Ugh for pete's sake who in their fucking right mind decided that Car & Driver would be a suitable replacement?

the news is sad but the lols of the car & driver replacement attempt cannot be denied

I hope they do something about the horribly clunky design of the Spin website. If not I could see the whole enterprise disappearing sooner rather than later.

I had a subscription so I may actually be disappointed if I don't get a C&D

well, this took longer than I thought it would.

got my goddamned car and driver today
will be speaking with my congressman
by which i mean whiney

B-b-but where will the doughy weekend warriors send their indie rock demo tapes now?

Motor Trend

oh man I am going to direct Aerosmith's publicist to send promos and press releases to Motor Trend for the rest of my life and leave instructions in my will that this is to continue until the money I set aside for post-mortem publicity runs out

truly living (and afterliving) on the edge.

putting steve salas and eric johnson on a list of stevie ray wannabes shows a really fundamental misunderstanding of 80s guitar mag dudes >:(

http://www.spin.com/articles/stevie-ray-vaughan-white-blues-guitar-texas-flood-reissue

Yeah, and that's the whole text--? Nice pix, esp, the John Mayer triptych, although it needs an UPDATE! HE'S CUT HIS HAIR! OH NOOOO! But none of the sometimes beyond-marginal distinctions of style and quality. I've heard Eric Johnson go for an Extrapolation-era McLaughlin vibe, for inst. Eric Sardinas' studio work, esp. his increasingly reliable vocals and songwriting, sounds less and less like Vaughn's. Live, he can do brilliant edits of Vaughn's own live guitar extravaganzas--seems less like wannabbeizm than the "expert mash-ups of Sonic Youth (etc.)" that Parquet Courts get praised for, in this same issue.

i guess i think of johnson as a more of an american vibe like, i dunno, allan holdworth with more of an 80s rock vibe or something, not really a blues dude

true, from when I heard him live anyway: not blues-rock, but some kind of pre-suck cosmic jazz-rock, is what I meant by Extrapolation-era etc.

Just received my replacement magazine for Spin: Esquire.

i got a card in the mail recently thanking me for subscribing to Esquire, but it didn't mention that it was a replacement for Spin (though I assumed) and the first issue hasn't come yet. hoping i don't get the one w/ that terrible Megan Fox story.

that's good though cuz now you guys will always know what makes george clooney tick.

guess i'm glad it's a magazine i may enjoy reading to some extent but bummed to miss out on the car & driver lols (xp)

I would complain and get a refund but I only paid $10 for the scrip to begin with and it's been a while so yelling at them to give me two bucks back seems counterproductive. Of course, so does throwing away still-wrapped issues of fucking Esquire.

that's good though cuz now you guys will always know what makes george clooney dick.

― scott seward, Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:52 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait what??

I had three different issues of C&D all show up in my mailbox within a week of each other, it was kinda lol

check for 4.63 after my ANGRY LETTER

I just unsubscribed from Spin email updates.

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/65280_10152455799690597_1336324903_n.jpg

I am such a Luddite.

Esquire's all right ain't it?

esquire, new yorker, oil change.pdf, there's a lot of good reading still out there

That's my oil change coupon. I am not a total Luddite.

And I am ambivalent to Esquire however the wife doesn't want what she perceives to be sexist trash in the house.

Yet she married me. How odd.

what kinda a discount did you get

$18.99 which includes a tire rotation.

Nice!

Just got my check in the mail after I decided to send them my own angry letter.

$12.66.

I have no record of paying them anything after I spent $14.95 in May of 2011 so I cannot help but think I came out ahead in this deal.

http://www.amazon.com/Poseur-Memoir-Downtown-York-City/dp/0306821745/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363313785&sr=1-1&keywords=poseur%3A+a+memoir+of+downtown+new+york+city+in+the+%2790s

Comment section trolls be BRUTAL over at SPIN yo

BuzzMedia now SpinMedia: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/business/media/as-spinmedia-web-publisher-aims-to-lift-smaller-sites.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

Spin, for example, has notched up its competition against Pitchfork since July, when Buzzmedia bought the magazine (and within weeks shut down its print edition). Spin’s 870,000 readers now closely challenge Pitchfork’s 1.1 million. But comScore’s figures show that visitors to Pitchfork spend more than quadruple the time as visitors to Spin.