Is SPIN really circling the drain?

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time for your pills

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

more changes:

http://www.gawker.com/news/spin/what-goes-up-must-come-down-spinnin-wheel-got-to-go-round-158054.php

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

SPIN should just reprint old issues from late 80s/early 90s in their entirety and sell those.

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd buy that.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

would it be bad to open a bottle of champagne in celebration of the -- hopefully - permanent demise of Marc Sptiz?

― juana, Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Juana makes wine from the tears of Ultragrrrl.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Back to ILM Magazine, could I have a deep house review section please ? No reviews, no ratings, no BS : just a list of unfailingly fine, recently re(re)leased recordings to be bought eyes closed & ears open.

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I think the name for the ILM Magazine should be CIRCLING THE DRAIN.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Is ILM really circling the drain? (answer: yes)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link

We've recycled and are currently in cloud formation mode.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

The whole "drain" imagery has me thinking of ILM, from

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2004/10/17/images/2004101700060501.jpg

http://www.oscarworld.net/psycho1.jpg

― Je4nne Æ’urÂ¥ (Je4nne Fury), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Revolver sold for $4 million. Considering Revolver has no outstanding debt and actually makes money, it's basically worth more that SPIN. Wow.

― ng-unit, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

but no one here cares, b/c a.) no name crits have ever had anything to do with it, b.) its the butt-rock journal of note. However, it was sold by Harris Publications, which used to own Guitar World. Now Future Music owns GW and Rev, and Harris is divested of music titles.

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i've always liked the issues of revolver i've read, although i don't know much abt. the bands in it.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Harris is divested of music titles.

that's pretty big news, I'd say! they had a bunch of them.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i wish they sold metal hammer where i live. i wish they sold anything where i live. they do have revolver at the drug store, but i've never bought a copy. which is weird, cuz i'll buy anything. maybe i'll buy the one out now. (that interview with the editor over at revolver on rockcritics.com scared me from ever sending them my stuff. he said something about not liking...whatever it is i do. i can't remember the specifics.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link

"whatever it is i do"

not ME personally. just my ilk, i guess.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link

You have an ilk?

I want an ilk.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Thursday, 9 March 2006 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link

i hate the rest of denis publications, but blender is good with all kinds of music, its smart about shit that sells (cf the kenny chesney feature), it cares about culture (the mars hill article), it has fun (the 848 feature) and it actually hires women and other minorities to write for it...its not a bad magazine.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 9 March 2006 08:03 (eighteen years ago) link

the butt-rock journal of note

roffle

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 9 March 2006 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Bring back MELODY MAKER...

― Russell Dixon (Skinny), Thursday, 9 March 2006 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait did Matos really come out pro-America's Sweetheart in this thread?

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 9 March 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

That rockcritics.com interview was weird, because the interviewer mentioned me by name as a contributor that made the mag interesting, or something (I forget, it's been awhile), yet it was right after that that my work for them pretty much dried up.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 9 March 2006 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Uh I currently owe Harris thousands of dollars so I feel like they had more than just Revolver, or did they sell other ones lately?

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

uhh, you owe Harris $$$, Eppy? are you an advertiser, or do you work for one?

harris owned Guitar World forever, and started Revolver as an american Mojo/Q right before Blender came along. So they changed it into a slightly more canny version of Hit Parader or Circus or…Rock Sound? is that what it's called? it has made money, apparently, on the backs of white dirtbags. the editor referenced above doesn't much care for the nu-metal/screamo stuff he must cover…

I think harris still owns King, which wags referred to as "Blaxim."

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Er, sorry, it's probably worrisome that I personalized it so much, but I really mean "the company that I work for." Harris is very much on my mind these days.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link

ILM: The Magazine needs its own thread.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I want to do a "ChartWatch" column for ILM: The Magazine (if the Good Dr. Bill doesn't beat me to it)!

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://www.spin.com/needanangel/images/final_main2.jpg

― don weiner (don weiner), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link

alt.porn? Is that where they have alt.sex?

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Great, just what we need. Another talent-free low self-esteem girl to help us "broaden our horizons".

Goodbye Spin.

― everything, Friday, 31 March 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

She's about as curvy as a stringbean.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 31 March 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, at least she resembles PJ Harvey a little bit.

― Jeff K (jeff k), Friday, 31 March 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know if they're circling the drain - check out this scoop:

http://www.spin.com/reviews/magazine/2006/04/060323_gunsnroses/

― schwantz (schwantz), Friday, 31 March 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait a minute, how can that review be posted on April 1st if it's still March 31st? (wink, wink)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 31 March 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

what, they review Chinese Democracy but not the new My Bloody Valentine album??!? Spin has LOST IT

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 31 March 2006 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link

lol what about the neutral milk hotel album, fellows

― gear (gear), Friday, 31 March 2006 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link

its only slightly worse than the Smiths reunion album.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 31 March 2006 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

speaking of reunions, there's mumblings of a lethargy/vertigo one-off charity festival date

― latebloomer: a power and finesse vocalist (latebloomer), Saturday, 1 April 2006 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't forget the 'Mats! (I'd tell my troubles to that girl, but I bet she's not the real Adviser.)

― don, Saturday, 1 April 2006 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Porn and sex are barely connected so I don't see how a 'porn star' could help people with sexual problems.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

It's alt. porn. They have tattoos and flesh plugs and stuff!

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i'd say Spin started going downhill once Ultragrrrl stopped writing for them.

― Wrinklepaws (Wrinklepaws), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I looked at ms Angel's website, the url of which was listed on the spin advert that don weiner presented, above. I d/l-ed & watched one of the clips. A skanky, albeit attractive young woman with a lot of tattoos is in a house with a young bearded guy who appears to be a carpenter - he has carpentry tools attached to his belt. She has bleached blonde hair with the roots showing (I like this) and too much eye makeup (not this though. Pandas =/= hott) They feel each other up a bit, then have sex. In one short sequence they are in "reverse cowgirl" position, or a minor variant thereof. She props hersef up by holding onto one of those long yellow aluminium spirit levels. They then shift to missionary position. She is wearing horrible platform shoes. Perhaps she isn't that attractive really. I notice that she is wearing a necklace withe the word "skank" on it. The guy looks a bit dorky. Then they are standing next to each other. The woman says to the man "I can't wait to put my mouth on your cock". In what I presume is an attempt at humour, the man holds up a caulk gun of the sort one would use to squirt silicone sealant around the edge of a bathtub, advises her that it is hazardous to her health, and that she should try his dick. It wasn't terrible, I guess, but I didn't think it was very good either. The woman in the clip was not the woman in the spin advert.

I am not sure how producing material of this sort qualifies ms Angel to be a sex columnist? Unless the only questions they will be fielding will be from workers in the adult industry?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

ewww.. looks like something else is circling the drain.

― Chex Dwarf (sanskrit), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Okay, Nu-Spin is trying to jump on the alt-porn/Suicide Girls thing, I can understand the thinking there. The thing that throws me is that woman being described as "curvy." I'm hoping that's just a lazy copy writer's generic way of signifying a sexy woman, or that's really warped.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Tut tut Pash, once you bragged of having none of that kinda stuff, now you jump at every chance to see it. I blame the (incredibly crappy) 9 Songs.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 1 April 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Spin should just merge with Fuse and call the magazine Boob Fusion. Sales would be thru the roof!

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 1 April 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Patrick you found out my mucky secret, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club turned me into a raging perv :|

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 1 April 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

They should get Pashmina to do a sex advice column.

― Eppy (Eppy), Saturday, 1 April 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link

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