Is SPIN really circling the drain?

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.

great alternative albums of the 60s list imho!

:) thx man

That RuPaul feature killed, BTW.

I enjoyed the '60s list except for the fact that The Monks was ridiculously low and the stupid layout where you had to click it 100 times to see all of the list.

yeah the 60s list was fantastic

yeah i moaned a little bit about the oddness of that final VU writeup, but overall a very fun list.

Very much enjoyed the 60s list, could have been 5 times longer though.

yeah, sort of feel like it should be expanded into a book...
in other news, i received another copy of car & driver today.

did it have a "best cars of the 60s" feature?

http://www.anythingaboutcars.com/images/1964_OldsmobileF-85_DeLuxe.jpg
underrated car

rare private press sedan

edition of 500 on the oldsmobile label

i'm on my second issue of Spin-replacing Esquire, haven't looked for interesting articles in it yet because i read too much of the first one and felt all douchey

26. Furthur (1964)
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7mpuopjOS1r4z5hmo1_1280.jpg

what? too low!

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.

― curmudgeon, Monday, March 25, 2013 11:12 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great news. new spin has been killin it

I enjoyed this list

http://www.spin.com/articles/best-drummers-list-alternative-music/

finally spin magazine publishes a listicle about alt rock!

dave grohl greatest alternative drummer in the world

tony allen all the way up at #4 tho otm