Is SPIN really circling the drain?

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

Where did skrillex place?

ROLAND WAS TOOO LOOWW!!!

James Brown's drummer is the second-best "alternative music" drummer of all time, congrats.

Pardon me, drummerS

Imagine how awesome James Brown could have been if only he'd had Dave Grohl to drum for him.

It froze after I clicked from 100 to 99 and there was no way in hell I was going to click through 100 diff entries anyway.

c'mon, Spin.

#spoiler drummer from butt trumpet is #1

Yeah xp I couldnt get passed 97, kept sticking

Same here. Quickly bailed.

whiney has been pretty awol lately ain't he?

where's Nick Crowe?

drummer from Gay Dad robbed!

Damon Che Bio is inaccurate.

totally saw Neil Peart's omission from a mile away. didn't see Bill Bruford either. or Aynsley Dunbar. or Bryan St. Pere from Hum.

Chris Corsano is sick though... didn't expect him to be there.

#50 Orestes Morfin (Bitch Magnet, Walt Mink)

Awesome! Really cool to see him up so high. Had a nice chat with him after the final Bitch Magnet reunion show last year. He's in Tucson now and still performs and tours with Bill Plant Collective, Bored Spies and Sambalanço. Odd that in Joey Waronker's (#88) entry, they didn't list Walt Mink alongside Beck, as he did play with them many years longer than Orestes.

Budgie's entry should have mentioned his contribution to The Slits' Cut.

When I saw the headline I knew that they'd have a drum machine in there (like Skrillex in best guitarists) and I was hoping it was Roland. Thanks for not disappointing me, Spin.

In "alternative" drummers, though, come on, Brendan Canty should have been much higher.

When I saw the headline I knew that they'd have a drum machine in there

Yes, but I would've never expected them to associate it with Big Black.

unsure if whiney still look at this thread but... is there any easy way to check out the spin blogs? seems like e.g here - http://www.spin.com/blogs/no-trivia - isnt up to date

http://www.spin.com/writers/brandon-soderberg/

thx!

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/214774/spin-lets-its-editor-in-chief-go/

Reached by phone, Ganz confirmed her departure, which she called “surprising,” noting that Spin’s website had just had the second-biggest month traffic-wise in its history. Ganz worked for Spin from 2001 to 2006, and returned in October 2011 after stints at Yahoo! and Rolling Stone.

So 2nd biggest is not good enough for their current owners

Chris Corsano is sick though... didn't expect him to be there.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3:40 PM (1 week ago)

Really? Whiney is a huge Corsano stan iirc, ditto Brian Chippendale

xpost - First biggest was also under Caryn's watch, btw

"I can’t think there’s anyone outside The New York Times that’s doing the number of reported music features we’re doing right now.”

Think harder.

go

dumb question: what's a "reported music feature"? a feature that involves interviews, research, etc?

I count 15 articles published by Spin in May that meet a basic definition of "reported music feature". I will say that that's a higher number than I expected—the site's design and navigation are so awful that a lot of the best content gets buried—so the quote isn't quite as preposterous as I initially thought it was. But an admittedly cursory look around shows that that's still a lower rate than the Guardian, the LA Times, the Village Voice, the Chicago Tribune, NPR, New York/Vulture, Vice, and Rolling Stone. It's roughly equal to Pitchfork.

I love Spin, though. The fact that in almost thirty years it's never not been in total financial and editorial disarray is part of its charm.

the village voice hasn't had anything that meets the defn of "reported" in its section in years, much less the space to do a "feature".

i know ILX is Pedantland, but when I said "reported music feature," I meant long stories with multiple sources like our feature on the final days of Bleecker Bob's or our look at music in the prison system, not phoners with bands.

that's still a lower rate than the Guardian, the LA Times, the Village Voice, the Chicago Tribune, NPR, New York/Vulture, Vice, and Rolling Stone.

lol

Spin CEO Steve Hansen is marking his turf I guess

http://www.spinmedia.com/the-team/

Prior to joining SpinMedia in 2012, Hansen helped revolutionize the retail automotive industry as President and Chief Operating Officer of TrueCar, Inc., where he led technology, product development, business intelligence, strategy and administration at the groundbreaking company.

xp No you don't understand - all those publications only do phoners with bands.

Before TrueCar, Steve held titles of COO, CFO and CAO at then-industry-leading online community GeoCities and oversaw the online community through its IPO and landmark $5 billion sale to Yahoo!

maybe one day spin can reach the heights of geocities

That Bleecker Bobs piece was excellent.

All CEOs are Col. Cargills in these bad times

i know ILX is Pedantland, but when I said "reported music feature," I meant long stories with multiple sources like our feature on the final days of Bleecker Bob's or our look at music in the prison system, not phoners with bands.

makes sense. that music warden article is fascinating.

features on a record store going out of business and music in the prison system, weird that vision didn't pay off

I enjoyed reading that prison one just now

You're such a jackass "balls"

http://i.imgur.com/Ae2MJRV.jpg

is that really the best google image search you got from 'balls'