Spin Magazine Suspends Publishing, Lays Off 11 Staffers

    I think we all seen this coming, but for a large print publication to take these steps is the writing on the wall for where everything is headed.

 SPIN was recently bought out by Buzzmedia

A statement from Buzzmedia reads as follows:

    “Buzzmedia and Spin are committed to moving forward with print, but we are still determining exactly how print fits in with Spin’s multiple distribution points and growth initiatives.”


   It's kind of sad because SPIN magazine was the magazine I read when I was growing up to get all of my music news and knowledge from. I read Rolling Stone but for a 15 year old kid from Canada Rolling Stone always seems a little too "American" for me, but SPIN was about the music, but as Bob Dylan wrote 'The Times They Are a-Changin'.

Below is a link courtesy of the International Business Times with all of the info regarding the story.


Spin Magazine Suspends Publishing, Lays Off 11 Staffers - International Business Times

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS

Fucked Up's David Comes to Life Album of the Year

         It's been quite the year for Fucked Up, besides touring the world over they have also received every accolade under the sun for their Punk Rock Opera Masterpiece David Comes to Life...now comes the news that in SPIN Magazines Year End Best of Issue David Comes to Life has been named Album of the Year.....I still can't believe that, and to top everything off Damian is on the cover!!

So, Congratulations to Sandy, Damian, Ben, Josh, Jonah and Mike and everyone else tied to the band....what a mind blowing accomplishment


Here's the latest video from David Comes to Life "Turn the Season" directed by Scott Cudmore.

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS

 

A Nirvana Nevermind Tribute Album that Doesn’t Suck....Thanks SPIN

        With the 20^th anniversary of Nirvana's “Nevermind” almost here we most defiantly will be barraged with tributes galore, so when I came across this FREE tribute album put together by SPIN Magazine called “Newermind A Tribute Album”  that pays “Nevermind” the proper respect it deserves I thought I’d share it with the rest of you.

Here’s a list of the artists and the songs they cover:

1-Meat Puppets-Smells Like Teen Spirit

2-Butch Walker and The Black Widows-In Bloom

3-Midnight Juggernauts-Come As You Are

4-Titus Andronicus-Breed

5-The Vaselines-Lithium

6-Amanda Palmer-Polly

7-Surfer Blood-Territorial Pissings

8-Foxy Shazam-Drain You

9-Jessica Lea Mayfield-Lounge Act

10-Charles Bradley and the Menahan Street Band-Stay Away

11-Telekinesis-On a Plain

12-Jeff The Brotherhood-Something in the Way

13-EMA-Endless Nameless

Here is the link to the Facebook page that SPIN has set up for the FREE download; you just have to “like” it

Click Here to get to the FB Page!

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS