Another print magazine closes up shop

By now "death of print" stories are all-too commonplace, shock no one, and are, basically, safe spaces for "the olds" to lament the demise of a once venerable source for information and entertainment. Spin magazine is the latest casualty, laying off a third of its staff and canceling the November issue:

The moves are ostensibly aimed at phasing out print altogether at Spin, which has been struggling amidst a wealth of online music sites—some of it already affiliated with Buzzmedia—such as Idolator, Stereogum, Gorilla Vs. Bear, PopMatters, Pure Volume, Punk News, RCRD LBL, and XLR8R. Last year, Spin’s website drew about half the monthly visitors that Pitchfork did and about a sixth of what Rolling Stone’s site drew. Spin's August/September print edition, which features rapper Azaelia Banks on the cover, will come out in late August as planned. It could well be its last. (AV Club )

I know this probably elicits nothing but eyerolls from most music fans today. (As witnessed in the first comment on the AV Club post: "What will I get grandma for Christmas now?" LOL. I get it. She's old. She likes crinkly paper things.) But it's not really that long ago that Spin was one of the few places where you could read about a band like Husker Du or The Replacements, particularly if you lived in a small town without much access to music outside top forty radio.