Thirty years ago, SPIN launched with a self-deprecating but sincere introduction from founder Bob Guccione Jr. “The world needs a lot of things before it needs more magazines,” he wrote. “However, I thought a lot of people might want SPIN, including myself.” And he was right. Over the past three decades, SPIN has proven that even in the face of paradigm shifts in the media and music industries — the decline of print, the record business bust, our own changes in-house (including Guccione’s departure in 1997, after selling the magazine) — that there is no shortage of people longing to read features, interviews and more from writers “with real excitement about music.”