6/10 I Miss Yous
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 00:10 (ten years ago) link
the only rating system that matters
― markers, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 01:32 (ten years ago) link
So Carl Wilson's going to be the senior critic for ten days?
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Thursday, 21 August 2014 22:34 (ten years ago) link
this is the slowest drain. needs some liquid plumber...
― scott seward, Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:32 (ten years ago) link
x-postsenior critic in charge of listicles?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 August 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
senior criticle
― j., Friday, 22 August 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
Wonder if he knew what his status would be when he just left Slate...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 August 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
The only surprise here is that there are still 19 people left at Spin Media to fire.
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/09/8552208/spin-media-lays-19-kills-emvibeem-print-edition
― Position Position, Thursday, 11 September 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
They have a lot of sites still! From their site:
SPIN Idolator Brooklyn Vegan Stereogum Gorilla vs Bear PureVolume Pretty Much Amazing XLR8R Buzznet Concrete Loop Alter The Press Absolute Punk Under The Gun Review Punk News PropertyOfZack Direct Lyrics Vibe Celebuzz The Frisky Celebslam Crunktastical Egotastic Fanpop Go Fug Yourself Pink is the New Blog Socialite Life The Superficial Videogum WWTDD
Although I guess they shut down Videogum so that list might be a bit out of date...
― maura, Thursday, 11 September 2014 14:07 (ten years ago) link
The Superficial and WWTDD payin' everybody else's salaries.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 11 September 2014 14:11 (ten years ago) link
Misogyny is a great business plan.
― maura, Thursday, 11 September 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
Phil knows that as well as anyone
― 龜, Thursday, 11 September 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
Not really; I got laid off from my porn job almost a decade ago. My salary was too high. Sound familiar?
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 11 September 2014 14:32 (ten years ago) link
Before the latest cuts:
Spin has been through multiple rounds of layoffs. In early 2013, the company reportedly had about 250 staffers. Its current headcount, Blackwell told Capital, is “just north of 120,” plus freelancers
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/08/8550866/beleaguered-spin-medias-new-ceo-stephen-blackwell-lays-out-plan
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 September 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
http://www.spin.com/writers/carl-wilson/
Spin's review section for albums now being released may be gone, but Carl got to write about the new U2.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 September 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
thank god there's somewhere we can go to read an old white dude write about U2
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 11 September 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
http://img.izismile.com/img/img5/20120109/1000/daily_gifdump_10.gif
― bozack horseman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 11 September 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
Talking of U2 and old dudes, I notice Rolling Stone's obligatory five-star David Fricke review has been published. Didn't see that one coming.
― Position Position, Thursday, 11 September 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
you're gonna be an old white dude one day jordan
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
is that track 4 of the new album?
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
to the tune of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF4GS9cSll4
― bozack horseman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
See ya:
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/269917/spin-loses-another-editor-in-chief/
― Position Position, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 13:41 (ten years ago) link
So the claim to fame of Spin's current CEO, Stephen Blackwell, who dropped EIC Marks, is just having run website death and taxes
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6251409/spinmedia-ceo-qa-with-stephen-blackwell
Who's going to fill the positions left by departing employees, like those from SPIN?
There had been changes in the workforce on a property-by-property basis. Acquisitions are delicate, and when there’s an acquisition, a lot of times that can lead to people leaving because values might change or missions might change. When I came here and looked at the scope of what our workforce is actually doing, we’ve got an incredible team here. We’re a little light on the editorial side in my opinion, so I'm treating our brands as best as I can; how do our brands function in the market and with our audiences. The way that I’m building the team back up is with a focus on that, and making sure we have an agreeable split between how many editors and people not on editorial. We’ll be hiring eventually for people to fill those positions, and creating new positions.
― maura, Thursday, 18 September 2014 02:17 (ten years ago) link
a staff of three people seems light, yeah
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 18 September 2014 02:21 (ten years ago) link
tbf lots of places are lax about updating their About pages: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spin.com/about/
― katherine, Thursday, 18 September 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
Carl Wilson back at Slate too.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 September 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
the extended spin joke running through tonight's SOUTH PARK was pretty fun
― maura, Thursday, 9 October 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
wow what was that???
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 October 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/bookofriot
joshua clover writing epic story of #HowIQuitSpin rn
― j., Monday, 20 July 2015 03:59 (nine years ago) link
He really doesn't like Charles Aaron.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 20 July 2015 04:18 (nine years ago) link
hashtag how i got tricked into reading a 9/11 memoir
― some dude, Monday, 20 July 2015 04:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah christ
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 20 July 2015 04:57 (nine years ago) link
It's also a "leaving New York" memoir.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 20 July 2015 05:23 (nine years ago) link
#HowIQuitSpin 129. THE ARISTOCRATS
― da croupier, Monday, 20 July 2015 06:13 (nine years ago) link
"There r some things u should know abt how I started at Spin" being tweet #107 in the series is amazing
― soyrev, Monday, 20 July 2015 06:50 (nine years ago) link
that's the only one i read
Not sure tweets are the right format for this?
― where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Monday, 20 July 2015 07:04 (nine years ago) link
Or maybe they are, is i suppose the point?
― where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Monday, 20 July 2015 07:05 (nine years ago) link
#tl,dr
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Monday, 20 July 2015 10:52 (nine years ago) link
loving this tbh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 20 July 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
lefty poet writing twitter memoir about how he quit being a music journalist is me-bait as hell
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 20 July 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
does it matter that he's left-handed?
― geoffreyess, Monday, 20 July 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/1000timesyes/status/623123039950098432
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 July 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
if this does not end in a rickroll gonna be disappointed tbh
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Monday, 20 July 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
Edited version…
Spin sends me a CD to review: Party Music by The Coup. Now this is a CD to get fired with.
This is the moment of true despair. It is then that I know I have lost. Had lost long ago.
I have to break up with Spin in person. But there's a problem: I don't really have the spare cash for a transatlantic flight.
That seems like a good irony. I will fly Paris>NYC to see a French movie.
I am oddly excited for the Tori Amos covers album. but I realize w great sadness I will not getting all my music for free anymore.
A plane hits the WTC. Then another one. END OF CHAPTER FIVE
we decide we will go downstairs to the market to get supplies, staples.
one is daughter to a great poet; weve had a couple conversations, Shes told me some things.
Understand: Paris had beautiful garbage cans.
I try to cut down on ice cream, to write poems. I get an email fr Spin. They tell me I owe them sixteen thousand dollars.
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 20 July 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
I am oddly excited for the Tori Amos covers album. but I realize w great sadness I will not getting all my music for free anymore.'
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Monday, 20 July 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link
someone should reply at him the world's tiniest violin score
― da croupier, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
This guy sounds like an unbelievable tool.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
Really? I'm enjoying the voice. A nice surprise, since I mainly remembered him as the guy who blurbed "The Fragile" in their best of '99 issue, describing it as "the hard bulletin."
― geoffreyess, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link