Monday, July 26, 2010
Music Happy 25th Birthday, SPIN Magazine
Posted by Lauren Beck on Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:54 PM
It's all to celebrate the magazine's 25th year of publication, a big deal not only in the days of dwindling print media, but as to what SPIN has represented over the years. As the only major publication to cover college radio's heyday in the 80s, to writing about hip-hop when most outlets were largely ignoring the genre, to being the only rock-oriented publication to appoint a female editor in chief with Sia Michel, they've stood as the anti-establishment (ignoring their brief infatuation with Fall Out Boy in 2005-2006) to industry bigwig Rolling Stone. As its relevancy is continuously tested in this day and age, it's easy to forget that SPIN provided one of the only, if not the best, channels for "alternative" bands to reach the masses during the 80s and 90s. All sorts of retrospective coverage of the last two-plus-some decades can be found here.
The first SPIN magazine I ever bought had Green Day on the cover promoting Nimrod, a photo essay of Lollapalooza and a feature on Hole. I still have it. It's what made me want to write about music.
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