Spin
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Editor	Doug Brod
Categories	Music
Frequency	Monthly
Publisher	Spin Media LLC
Total Circulation (2007)	450,000
Year founded	1985
First issue	May 1985
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	spin.com
ISSN	0886-3032

Spin is a music magazine that reports on "all the music that rocks". Founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr., it is the main competitor to industry stalwart Rolling Stone. Madonna was the artist on the cover of the first issue. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... ISSN, or International Standard Serial Number, is the unique eight-digit number applied to a periodical publication including electronic serials. ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ... Robert Charles Guccione Jr. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16, 1958), better known as simply Madonna, is a six-time Grammy[1] and one-time Golden Globe award winning American pop singer, songwriter, record and film producer, dancer, actress, author and fashion icon. ...

In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on "college rock" and on the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard. It pointedly provided a national alternative in the Rolling Stone's more "establishment" style, which was by then far less focused on music than it had ever been. Spin prominently placed newer artists like R.E.M., Prince, Run DMC, The Eurythmics, The Beastie Boys and Talking Heads on its covers, and did lengthy features on established figures like Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Miles Davis, Aerosmith, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, and John Lee Hooker. (Bart Bull's article on Hooker won the magazine its first major award.) R.E.M. is an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia in 1980 by Bill Berry (drums), Peter Buck (guitar), Mike Mills (bass guitar), and Michael Stipe (vocals). ... “The Artist” redirects here. ... Run-DMC is a hip hop crew founded by Jason Jam Master Jay Mizell that included Joseph Run Simmons and Darryl DMC McDaniels. ... Eurythmics (often incorrectly referred to as The Eurythmics) are a seminal British synth pop duo consisting of Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart. ... The Beastie Boys as depicted on the cover of their 1992 album Check Your Head. ... Talking Heads were an American rock band existing between 1974 and 1991, composed of David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. ... This article is about the recording artist. ... Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones in 1962. ... Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician widely considered to be one of the most influential of the 20th century. ... This article is about the band Aerosmith. ... Lewis Reed[1] (born March 2, 1942) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. ... John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an influential American post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. ...

Putting black and women artists on the cover was considered a risk, potentially damaging newsstand sales. Moreover, the magazine devoted itself to a long term set of investigative pieces on the AIDS crisis at a time when even gay publications were concerned about losing advertisers by doing coverage of the disease. On a cultural level, the magazine devoted significant coverage to hardcore punk, country and alternative country, reggae and world music, jazz of the most adventurous sort, and a variety of fringe styles. Artists like The Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, X, Black Flag, and the former members of The Sex Pistols, The Clash, and the early punk/new wave movement were cultural heritage pioneers in Spin's editorial mix, and were reviewed, featured and mentioned constantly at a time when Rolling Stone and other publications scarcely acknowledged their existence. Spin's extensive coverage of rap and hip hop culture, especially that of contributing editor John Leland, was notable at a time when no other national publication was paying serious attention. The Ramones (L-R, Johnny, Tommy, Joey, Dee Dee) on the cover of their debut self-titled album (1976), cementing their place at the dawn of the punk movement. ... Patricia Lee (Patti) Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American musician, singer, and poet. ... Blondie is the name of an American rock band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... X is a noted punk rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1977. ... Black Flag was a hardcore punk band formed in 1976 in southern California, largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes. ... The Sex Pistols in 1977. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Editorial contributions by music/culture figures like Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, David Lee Roth, Dwight Yoakam, and others were an innovation at the time.The magazine also did "scene reports" on cities like Austin, Texas or Glasgow, Scotland at times when they were unrecognized as cultural incubators. Coverage of American cartoonists, Japanese "manga," monster trucks, outsider artists, and other non-mainstream cultural phenomena distinguished the magazine's dynamic early years. Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Koch on June 2, 1959 in Rochester, New York) is an American singer, poet, writer, and actress. ... Henry Rollins (born February 13, 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield) is an American singer and songwriter, spoken word artist and author. ... David Lee Roth (sometimes referred to as Diamond Dave) (born 10 October 1953, Bloomington, Indiana) is a American rock vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality, best known for his work with the band Van Halen. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

In late 1987, publisher Bob Guccione Jr.'s father, Bob Guccione Sr., abruptly shut the magazine down despite the fact that the two-year old magazine was widely considered a success, with a newsstand circulation of 150,000. Guccione Jr. was able to rally much of his staff, locate new investors and offices, and after missing a month's publication, returned with a combined November/December issue. At the time, this power struggle was much discussed, often in terms of the Oedipus myth.

Guccione sold the magazine to Miller Publishing in 1997. In February 2006, Miller Publishing sold the magazine to a San Francisco company, the McEvoy Group LLC, which formed Spin Media LLC. The new owners replaced editor in chief Sia Michel with Andy Pemberton, a former editor at Blender. The first issue to be published under his command was the July 2006 issue (sent to the printer in May 2006), which, highly uncharacteristic for the magazine, featured Beyoncé on the cover. Pemberton and Spin parted ways in June of 2006. The current editor, Doug Brod, was executive editor during Michel's tenure. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Blender is an American magazine that bills itself as the ultimate guide to music and more. ...

For Spin's twentieth year they released a book chronicling the last twenty years in music. It has essays on Britpop, grunge, emo, and many other types of music, as well as pieces on groups including Marilyn Manson, Nirvana, Weezer, Nine Inch Nails, and The Smashing Pumpkins. Britpop was a British alternative rock genre and movement that was at its most popular in Great Britain in the mid 1990s. ... Grunge music (sometimes also referred to as the Seattle Sound) is an independent-rooted music genre that became a commercially successful offshoot of hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Emo is a genre of rock music. ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... This article is about the person. ... This article is about the American grunge band. ... For the albums, see Weezer (1994 album) and Weezer (2001 album). ... “NIN” redirects here. ... The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago in 1988. ...

Notable contributors have included Dave Eggers, Chuck Klosterman, Kim France, Tad Friend, Elizabeth Gilbert, Andy Greenwald, William T. Vollman, Will Hermes, Dave Itzkoff, John Leland, Bart Bull, Greil Marcus, Matt Groening, Glenn O'Brien, Norman Mailer, R. Meltzer, Karen Schoemer, William Burroughs, Anton Corbijn, Bob Gruen, Roberta Bayley, Jon Dolan, Jonathan Ames, Strawberry Saroyan, and Marc Spitz. Dave Eggers at the 2005 Hay Festival Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. ... Charles John Chuck Klosterman (born June 5, 1972, in Breckenridge, Minnesota) is an American pop-culture journalist, critic, humorist, and essayist. ... A Houstonian turned New Yorker, Kim France is an editor, journalist and author. ... Tad Friend is a staff writer for The New Yorker. ... Elizabeth Gilbert (born 1969) is an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, and memoirist. ... Writer of social commentary specifically on popular music. ... William T. Vollmann (born July 28, 1959 in Santa Monica, California) is an American novelist, journalist, short story writer and essayist. ... John Leland (September 13, 1502–April 18, 1552) was an English antiquary. ... Greil Marcus (2006) Greil Marcus (born 1945) is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. ... Matthew Abram Groening (born February 15, 1954[2] in Portland, Oregon;[1] his family name is pronounced , rhymes with raining) is an Emmy Award-winning American cartoonist and the creator of The Simpsons, Futurama and the weekly comic strip Life in Hell. ... Norman Mailer, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. ... Anton Corbijn (pronounced ) (born May 20, 1955) is a photographer from Strijen in the Netherlands. ... For other persons of the same name, see John Dolan. ... Jonathan Ames is an American author who has written a number of novels and comic memoirs. ... This article is considered orphaned, since there are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

External link

• Spin.com - Official site