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Spin Magazine

 

Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 in America and published by Bob Guccione, Jr... The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine. The Institution had a total of 459,586 circulations in 2011.

Spin was established in 1985. In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college rock and on the ongoing popularity of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard. It pointedly provided a national alternative to Rolling Stone's more establishment-oriented style. Spin prominently placed newer artists such as R.E.M., Prince, Run-D.M.C., Eurythmics, Beastie Boys, and Talking Heads on its covers and did lengthy features on established figures such as 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 and also on a cultural level, the magazine devoted significant coverage to hardcore punk, alternative country, reggae and world music, experimental rock, jazz of the most adventurous sort, the burgeoning college rock and underground music scenes of the 1980s, and a variety of fringe styles. Artists such as 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 heavily featured in Spin‍ '​s editorial mix. Spin’s extensive coverage of hip-hop music and culture, especially which of contributing Editor John Leland, was notable at the time.