Spin (magazine)

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Spin
Image:Xcover liam.jpg Featuring Liam Gallagher. "Louder than Bombs, bigger than god, mad as hatters"
Editor	Doug Brod
Categories	Music
Frequency	monthly
Publisher	Spin Media LLC
Total Circulation (2005)	550,000
Year founded	1985
First Issue	1985
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	spin.com
ISSN	unknown

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.

Guccione sold the magazine to Miller Publishing in 1997. In February 2006, Miller Publishing sold the magazine to two San Francisco companies, Hartle Media and the McEvoy Group, who jointly formed Spin Media LLC. The new owners replaced Sia Michel, the first woman to be named editor-in-chief at a major rock-music magazine, with Andy Pemberton, a former editor at Blender. The first issue to be published under his command was the May 2006 issue, which, highly uncharacteristic for the magazine, featured Beyoncé on the cover. Pemberton and Spin parted ways in June of 2006.^{[citation needed]} 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 Nirvana, Weezer, Nine Inch Nails, and The Smashing Pumpkins.

Notable contributors have included Dave Eggers, Kim France, Tad Friend, Elizabeth Gilbert, Andy Greenwald, Michael Hirschorn, Will Hermes, Dave Itzkoff, Chuck Klosterman, Sarah Lewitinn, and Marc Spitz.

External link

• Spin.com - Official sitefr:Spin (magazine)

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