Spin
Featuring Oasis. Oasis are an English rock band that formed in Manchester in 1991 "Louder than Bombs, bigger than god, mad as hatters"
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

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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. REM is an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by Michael Stipe ( lead vocals) Peter Buck ( Guitar Prince Rogers Nelson (born June 7 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American musician Run-DMC was a pioneering hip hop group during the 1980s founded by Joseph "[The Reverend] Run" Simmons, Darryl "D Eurythmics (often incorrectly referred to as The Eurythmics) is a British Musical duo, formed in 1980 by Annie Lennox and Dave Talking head Talking Heads was an American New Wave band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991 Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943 is an English Guitarist, Songwriter, Singer, producer and a founding member of The Rolling Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26 1926 &ndash September 28 1991 was an American Jazz Trumpeter, Bandleader, and Composer. Aerosmith is an American Hard rock band sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston " and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band" Lewis Allan Reed (born March 2 1942 is an American rock Singer-songwriter and Guitarist. Thomas Alan Waits (born 7 December 1949) is an American Singer-songwriter, Composer, and Actor. John Lee Hooker ( August 22, 1917 &ndash June 21, 2001) was an influential American Post-war Blues singer (Bart Bull's article on Hooker won the magazine its first major award. Bart Bull is an American writer reporter columnist and critic )

Putting black artists 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. The Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first Punk rock group Patricia Lee Smith ( born December 30 1946 is an American Singer-songwriter and poet Blondie is an American rock band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and has so far sold over 60 million records Black Flag was a Hardcore punk band formed in 1977 in southern California, largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist The Sex Pistols are an English Punk rock band that formed in London in 1975 For the debut album by The Clash see The Clash (album The Clash were 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.

Editorial contributions by music/culture figures like Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, David Lee Roth, Dwight Yoakam, and others were an innovation at the time. Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Koch on June 2, 1959 in Rochester New York) is an American Singer, Poet, Henry Rollins (born February 13 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield) is an American singer-songwriter Spoken word Artist, Stand-up comedian, author David Lee Roth (often referred to as "Diamond Dave" (born October 10 1954 Bloomington Indiana) is an American rock Vocalist Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American Country music Singer, Songwriter, and Actor 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.

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 for less than $5 million to a San Francisco company, the McEvoy Group LLC, which also owns Chronicle Books. Chronicle Books is a San Francisco -based American publisher of books for adults and children ^[1] That company formed Spin Media LLC as a holding company. A holding company is a company that owns part all or a majority of other companies' outstanding Stock. The new owners replaced editor in chief Sia Michel with Andy Pemberton, a former editor at Blender. Sia Michel (born May 17, 1967 in Erie Pennsylvania) is the pop music editor of The New York Times. Blender is an American music Magazine that bills itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more" 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.

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 is a subgenre of Alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Emo (ˈiːmoʊ is a genre of music that originated from Hardcore punk early on and adopted Pop-punk influences later on in the 2000s when Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969) better known by his Stage name Marilyn Manson, is an American Musician and Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen Washington. Weezer (ˈwizɚ is an American Alternative rock band from Los Angeles California formed in 1992 The Smashing Pumpkins are an American Alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988

In February 2008, Spin released a digital edition available through Texterity. Texterity is a major provider of complete digital magazine Publishing solutions

Notable contributors have included Dave Eggers, Chuck Klosterman, Byron Coley, Kim France, Tad Friend, Elizabeth Gilbert, Andy Greenwald, William T. Vollman, Will Hermes, Dave Itzkoff, David Bourgeois, John Leland, Bart Bull, Greil Marcus, Matt Groening, Glenn O'Brien, Norman Mailer, R. 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 Journalist whose work often focuses Byron Coley is an American Music critic who wrote prominently for Forced Exposure magazine in the 1980s starting with their 5th issue until the magazine Kim France is an American editor, Journalist, and author She is the founding editor of Lucky, an award-winning national Magazine Tad Friend is a staff writer for The New Yorker. His current focus of coverage is the entertainment industry and he often writes the "Letter from California Elizabeth M Gilbert (born July 18, 1969 in Waterbury Connecticut) is an American Novelist, Essayist, Short Andy Greenwald (born May 19, 1977) is a writer of social commentary specifically about popular music William Tanner Vollmann (born July 28, 1959 in Los Angeles California) is an American Novelist Journalist, Short David Bourgeois (born 1968 in Milwaukee Wisconsin) is an American Satirist, Film critic, and editor. This is about John Leland antiquary For other people called John Leland see John Leland (disambiguation. Bart Bull is an American writer reporter columnist and critic Greil Marcus (born 1945 is an American Author, music Journalist and cultural Critic. Matthew Abram Groening (ˈɡreɪnɪŋ GRAY-ning) (born February 15 1954 is an American Cartoonist, television producer and writer from Portland Norman Kingsley Mailer ( January 31, 1923 &ndash November 10, 2007) was an American Novelist, Journalist, Meltzer, Karen Schoemer, William Burroughs, Anton Corbijn, Bob Gruen, Roberta Bayley, Jon Dolan, Jonathan Ames, Strawberry Saroyan, Paul Beahan (founder of Manimal Vinyl) and Marc Spitz. Anton Corbijn ( pronounced) (born May 20, 1955) is a Photographer and director from Strijen, the Netherlands Jonathan “Jon” Dolan (March 16 1967 is former Missouri legislator having served the Missouri Senate from 2003 to 2005 and the Missouri House of Representatives from 1997 to 2003 Jonathan Ames is an American Author who has written a number of Novels and comic Memoirs. Strawberry Saroyan (born 1970) is a Journalist and Author. The daughter of Aram Saroyan and granddaughter of playwright William Saroyan Manimal Vinyl is a Los Angeles based Record label founded in 2006. Marc Spitz (b Queens New York, 1969 is a former senior writer at Spin magazine.

References

External links

• Spin.com - Official site
• digital.Spin.com - Digital edition

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