INSIDE SPIN PUBLISHER’S LETTER
[ 1] Steve Aoki & Kanye West
[ 2] Xavier de Rosnay of Justice
MySpace Music Tour
Afterparty

Los Angeles, CA

March 31, 2008

After selling out multiple venues on
their 20-city trek, the Spring 2008 MySpace
Music Tour, featuring Justice, presented by
Discover Card and sponsored by SPIN, came to an
exciting close at Los Angeles’s Mayan Theatre.
The show was followed by a star-studded
after party at Les Deux.

WHO

Steve Aoki and Justice DJed the
afterparty where guests like Kanye West and
Misha Barton made appearances.

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Goal!

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WE HAVE A LOT TO BE EXCITED ABOUT at Spin. Over the past few months, we’ve introduced a digital edition of the magazine in partnership with MySpace Music (you can find it at digital.spin.com), relaunched SPIN.com, and archived all 550 new CD reviews from 2007 in a special interactive compendium ( digital.spin.com/spin/annualreview07). We continue to be a part of all the major music festivals, and the magazine is as vibrant and insightful as ever. And on top of all that, we can brag about our foray into semi-amateur sports. I’d like to congratulate our Spin hockey team in Austin, Texas, for winning the B2 division. Not only did they dominate on the ice, but they looked good doing it.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank a few people who have helped Spin this year. Our heartfelt appreciation goes out to: Carleen Donovan, Scott McNearney, E. Vizion Jones, Isac Walter, Kelley Electa, Dana Dynamite, Joseph Janus, Annabel Lukins, Keith Pressman, Jerry Pressman, Kenneth Loo, Shannon Woodward, Rob Tonkin, Lexa Carey, Sean Dee, Brian Pekny, Meredith Miesieski, Tom Bacon, Campbell Brown, Herb Heneman, Dyana Kass, Greg Galbraith, Taku, Ian Toombs, Bob Woody, and Allison Spagle.

—Malcolm Campbell

Publisher

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