Spin Magazine's new design: they should decide if they want to be Alternative Press or The Fader

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What's up with Spin. Things for them are looking bleak. They constantly feature green day and Courtney Love and other fading 90s heroes, yet try and be current by throwing Wolf Parade a bone. If I were them I'd focus on the new, b/c they are treading dangerously close to AP ...esp now that I've gotten wind that Fall Out Boy is going to be their next cover....

― breezy, Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

Sassy for boys

― Old School (sexyDancer), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Green Day ain't fading

― pinder (pinder), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

green day is TIRED

― breezy, Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Things have gone downhill since their glory days of putting Natalie Imbruglia on the cover.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

I thought the reviews section looked more like Paste's than anything else

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Green Day is still a very popular rock band.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

lemonade was a popular drink, and it still is

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

It's not their fault there's nothing exciting going on right now.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

i'm not even a big fan of Wolf Parade, but i'd much rather see somebody new on the cover than Green Day, RHCP , etc

― breezy, Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

"They constantly feature green day and Courtney Love"

for some reason Courtney Love still has a big influence over there...is she friends with someone there?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

Green Day and the Red Hot Chili Peppers happen to be my favourite bands. I'd rather see them feature old bands that are good, than new ones that are bad.

― lozz, Sunday, 2 October 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

The new AP is 240 pages; Spin now consistently clocks in at a little over 100. Situation used to be reversed. You can smell the panic wafting off Spin's pages.

― original plagiarist (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 2 October 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

some recent pieces like Simon Reynold's grime profile, Ira Robbins' CBGB piece, and the Elliot Smith story were quite strong.

― Beta (abeta), Sunday, 2 October 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

the new layout is horrible.

wake the fuck up, SPIN--Courtney Love doesn't count.

― don weiner (don weiner), Sunday, 2 October 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

the kompakt feature and caramanica's houston piece were dope. they're not done yet

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

I wish Merge Records would not quote Spin's blurbs on the Clientele.

― youn, Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Caramanica's Houston piece had some of the freshest quotes ever.

Phoebe Reilly's Courtney Love interview is jawdroppingly awesome too.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

I had to chuckle at the latest cover: Anthony Kiedis cast as one of modern pop music's great innovators!

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

I have a free sub and don't spend much time reading the magazine, but I did notice an issue recently where the dude from My Chemical Romance was on every other page. A few months ago, there were perhaps two issues with Interpol on every other page. And every other issue seems to be retrospective, but having been alive for the past 20 years, and having read Spin off and on for at least 15+ of them, I have no need for Spin retrospectives.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

that's what I'm talking about. I hope someone who works there is reading this. they are looking lamer and lamer.

― breezy, Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

does spin still do those fashion pages?

― reo, Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

haha I'd be surprised if someone who works there isn't reading this (hi, guys!)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 3 October 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

I see CREEM is back as a web-only publication. On the site they mention something about bringing back the print edition, which would be cool. Not only did Boy Howdy! and company give us Lester Bangs, they could wipe the floor with Spin without breaking a sweat.

― Keith Lake, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

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