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From: rpk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Robert Krajewski)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Spin
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 00:22:33 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 27 00:22:33 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Mar-85 02:55:10 EST
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Spin might actually turn out to be a good magazine, if the writers learn to
control themselves.  It looks like it's trying to be a hipper Creem with
more emphasis on the independent scene and less on heavy metal (the only
article on a heavy metal band is about Stryper).  The only writers I
recognised from other mags were Joe Bob and James Truman, who writes for
the Face.

Summary of contents:

	Madonna interview: Very lightweight (what did you expect ?)
	Bono (u2) interview: Pretty good, but it may not be that recent.
	Small features on John Trubee and the Ugly Janitors of AMerica,
		breakdancing in Java, and jabs at certain people (``So
		What'').
	James Truman interviews Bryan Ferry and muses on Roxy Music.  The
		best article.
	Record reviews: New Velvet Underground, Los Lobos, Richard
		Thompson, Linda Thompson, Andreas Vollwender, Husker Du.

I'd say pick up it, it's entertaining.  However, the writers have this
tendency to fly off the handle when writing about something they care for,
in an effort to be wilder and woolier than Rolling Stone, their
whipping-boy.


Give it a few months -- maybe Bob Guccione Jr. will turn out to be more
respectable in the publishing business than his father !
-- 
``Bob'' (Robert P. Krajewski)
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