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Post by salsashark on Dec 26, 2012 19:57:23 GMT -5
www.avclub.com/articles/surprising-almost-no-one-spin-magazine-ceases-prin,90186/ I have a feeling this won't get as much love as the Nintendo Power threads, but I still have a giant soft spot for SPIN and wanted to share. I remember reading a few issues back in the early 2000s and absolutely loved the magazine's unusual choices of subjects (I specifically remember MIA and Ted Leo -- didn't know anything about the first and only a bit about the second). I got back into it around 2008-ish and even had an article published in it in 2009 (easily one of my coolest moments of my life -- I felt like such a baller buying that issue from Kroger that day). Just recently, I picked up an old issue from Half-Price Books with these dudes on the cover: Anyone else follow this magazine over the years?
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 26, 2012 19:58:58 GMT -5
Looks like it will now be spinning in it's grave!
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Dec 26, 2012 20:00:03 GMT -5
Axl Rose is somewhere laughing
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Post by wildojinx on Dec 26, 2012 20:07:21 GMT -5
Axl Rose is somewhere laughing Come to think of it, Hit Parader is also gone. However, Kerrang somehow still lives on, so one of axl's enemies is still around.
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Post by chazraps on Dec 26, 2012 20:16:23 GMT -5
Really sad. Spin was a legit alternative to Rolling Stone, and always had the coolest covers. They covered a lot of niche genres that wouldn't otherwise get the shine alongside music's biggest names in any other major music magazine.
The recent anthologies they've put out have been pretty good, and I still have the poster from the White Stripes cover story that Chuck Klosterman wrote for Spin up on my wall back home in Minnesota.
Spin was also the first time I saw emerging local musicians from my area grace the pages of a nationwide magazine. It was always cool how they kept taps on what's hip and just did what they want. Seeing Das Racist staring at me from the front row at a magazine rack while I was in an international airport is a visual that will always stick with me. Really going to miss it.
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Post by salsashark on Dec 26, 2012 21:08:33 GMT -5
Looks like it will now be spinning in it's grave! Dick move, dude.
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Post by Kash Flagg on Dec 26, 2012 21:44:26 GMT -5
Wait...when did Hit Parader stop publishing!?
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Dec 26, 2012 21:47:24 GMT -5
Looks like it will now be spinning in it's grave! Dick move, dude. i thought it was funny
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Post by cherry coloured funk on Dec 26, 2012 21:51:41 GMT -5
Read this magazine religiously in the late 90s, and a bit later when I was the manager of a dying convenience store. Was always my favourite over Rolling Stone, which seemed to become pandering over the years.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2012 22:09:29 GMT -5
I didn't even know this was still around.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Dec 26, 2012 22:20:38 GMT -5
I heard about one of my favorite bands/albums ever, The Magnetic Fields and 69 Love Songs, for the first time in Spin. Always appreciate them for that.
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Post by edtheripper on Dec 26, 2012 22:39:08 GMT -5
I've had a subscription for quite a few years. Sad to see it go.
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Post by salsashark on Dec 26, 2012 22:42:10 GMT -5
*shrug* I worked for them occasionally and really enjoyed the experience. They produced tons of great content over the years, and I made this thread to discuss the actual product (good and bad of it), not as an outlet for lame jokes with zero other insight. Just think it's a total dick move to come into a thread to crack a really bad pun. Even your joke was something insightful and totally pertinent. Anyway, I am psyched to hear all the memories dished here. SPIN did have some pretty bad cover subjects over the years, as this taught me: usedwigs.com/spin/. That being said, I'm sure I could find the same for Alternative Press and Rolling Stone.
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Post by salsashark on Dec 26, 2012 22:43:26 GMT -5
Wait...when did Hit Parader stop publishing!? In November/December 2008. They even still have info for that issue displayed on their site: www.hitparader.com/
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Post by Bone Daddy on Dec 26, 2012 22:45:28 GMT -5
I'm so glad this garbage is gone. They were the original (well maybe not the original) hipsters who hate music for no reason
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Post by salsashark on Dec 26, 2012 22:50:03 GMT -5
I'm so glad this garbage is gone. They were the original (well maybe not the original) hipsters who hate music for no reason I definitely understand the hipster complaint, but they spent a lot of time with different genres besides indie rock. Eminem, Creed, Sum 41, The Darkness, Sting, Springsteen, etc. have all been on the cover before -- none of whom are hipster bands. (I might give you Springsteen.)
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Dec 26, 2012 22:52:54 GMT -5
I used to have the four KISS covers from 1996.
I'm pretty sure Orange must have, too.
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Post by kidglov3s on Dec 26, 2012 23:01:43 GMT -5
They wrote a cool article in Feb. 1997 about the emergence of a new, well, attitude, in pro wrestling, called The Smart and The Dumb. That's the extent of my familiarity with Spin.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Dec 26, 2012 23:02:07 GMT -5
I'm so glad this garbage is gone. They were the original (well maybe not the original) hipsters who hate music for no reason I'd mention the perfect score for the aforementioned 69 Love Songs as proof they didn't hate music but that would probably only fuel the indie/hipster hate this forum seems to thrive on at times.
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Post by mysterydriver on Dec 26, 2012 23:14:54 GMT -5
I guess that Lupe Fiasco boycott worked?
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