Good magazine for the mainstream reader Submitted on: 2009-10-26
I enjoy reading SPIN magazine, for its interesting articles about music, and also it helps inform me of new upcoming bands, as well as existing music that I should listen to. SPIN magazine is oriented towards the mainstream reader like myself, who want to read about bands that are in the mainstream, or just about to become popular. With a circulation of over 400,000 readers SPIN magazine is no longer a small indie magazine focusing on local banks, and counter-culture articles. I have noticed that some of the other reviewers are pretentious and look down upon those who do listen to mainstream music on the radio.
I guess I'm more of a Rolling Stone guy? Submitted on: 2009-09-14
I've had a sub to SPIN and RS for a couple months now, and I tend to pick up RS a lot more. SPIN gets a skim on arrival, and then sits around til I pitch it in the recycle bin. Call it personal preference, but I'm just compelled to spend any time with it.
But don't take my word for it!
Just pick up a copy--at pretty much any store--and skim through it. Buy it if you like it, put it back if you don't. (I'm assuming you don't know how shopping works, if you've never heard of SPIN and need a review.)
When awful bands are reviewed by Bohemian Ingrates..... Submitted on: 2008-12-11
oh yeah, I remember a time in music when people used to rush to the cd stores when they heard a song on the radio...the time when Joshua Tree first came out, or when I first heard Stand on BRU, and had to immediately go get the tape from the /spin/ shop in the college town, and yeah when really tiny bands, like Better Than Ezra from N.O., seemed to come out of nowhere, and throw the song, 'good' on the radio, and man music seemed to just drool out of my ears/// I don't know what happened really, maybe I discovered a whole other genre of music, ie. Tiesto, AVB, PVD, Ladytron, Carl Cox, Gabriel and Dresden, or I just dont have anything in common with the sad emo culture who makes bands like dashboard confessional out to be the new Iggy Pop, or on the same token these lemmings who crawl to the corporate swindlers FYE to shell out top sticker cd prices for the new Spears album...
...I remember when I first read Spin, all glossy and shiny cover with a bunch of no named bands, in which I could really try to dig and see who their influences were....I read it for awhile, but then one day, one month if I recall, it had the dudes from the /Strokes/ on the cover, remember, the really close up, tight shots, of the band members looking as if they just rolled out of bed or were going to a methadone clinic, and the same issue has multiple copies with the same content, but different covers with each member of the band, and if I recall, it said the 'Best Band of the Decade?? It had been some time before that, that I had laughed so genuinely hard. I was actually really angry, that anyone, anyone, that appreciates or writes for a music magazine, would ever have the tenacity or testicular fortitude to ever embarass themselves enough to write something like that. I mean here's a group of winey, college yuppies, who think of themselves as hard core, who review music from bands such as the Yeah, Yeah, Yeah's? NO NO NO.
Spin is trash, (Fred Durst, on a cover? enough said, phttt) it's writing is sophmoric and save the personal opinion that the bands they review are more or less worthless, I simply cannot see how this magazine is still around after these many years.
EXCREMENT.
all right by me !!! Submitted on: 2008-03-24
I like Spin magazine. Sure, it has a lot of ads and they primarily cover newer trends in music. There's not a lot for people who like classic pop vocals here! However, I always like to keep my head tuned in for new artists and the evolution of music; and so for me Spin magazine serves the purpose well. Moreover, the quality of the paper, images and text is great; and the binding is well manufactured, too.
Spin has articles on great new music and hot developments in the music industry. For example, the current issue focuses on R.E.M. and their "resurrection." I love it! They also have smaller articles with pictures of other newcomers to the music scene.
In addition, look for interesting articles like "who earns what" and "the honor roll" of new gadgets like t-shirts and wireless earphones that are rather informative about what's "hip and happening" today. It could be construed as tabloid gossip; but to me it's a great reprieve from heavy duty thinking!
Overall, Spin magazine is a fine choice for those of us who want the latest news and trends from the music industry. The writing isn't exactly Shakespearian; but you didn't buy this to read Shakespeare! The articles are actually rather well written and the humor is OK by me. I recommend this magazine for fans of modern music and people who enjoy updates about their favorite artists and bands.
Informationally Better & More Inciteful than RS Submitted on: 2007-12-23
Spin was the standard "way back when" elipsed in some ways by Paste, Under the Radar, Magnet etc but still comes through in the clutch with reviewers with a a wider frame of reference than many of the above and the opportunity to review odd-ball items and get out that information quickly in its "Spin Mix" column. If the songs they ID aren't on myspace, the band usually is, thus a chance to sample new music. And the greatest advantage to a Spin subscription is that it's so bloody cheap. (Note: In two years, they'll paying YOU to subscribe!) It is respectfully submitted to start your subscription now, but remember to ignore some of the bands it hypes -- but embrace some of the others.
Good magazine for the mainstream reader
I guess I'm more of a Rolling Stone guy?
When awful bands are reviewed by Bohemian Ingrates.....
all right by me !!!