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  "Thank You, Steve Jobs" — Your Friends at SPIN

  October 6, 2011 – October 2001: I am driving from San Francisco to New York City, for good. Everything I own of even marginal value is packed onto a dodgy moving truck, possibly to be seen again in a few weeks. The two exceptions are my dog, taking up the entire front seat, and all of my CDs, taking up the entire back seat. Within the year, a sizable chunk of that music will fit in my shirt pocket. Within four years, all of it will. …
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  Inside Tunisia's Hip-Hop Revolution

  August 24, 2011 – A rapper named El General posted a song to his Facebook page that became the anthem to his country's revolution. David Peisner travels to Tunisia to see how hip-hop brought down a dictator. The most dangerous rapper in the world sleeps in a narrow twin bed in a small room he shares with his brother in a tidy, comfortable home on the outskirts of Sfax, an industrial port city in central Tunisia. …
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  Jay-Z and Kanye West, 'Watch the Throne' (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam/Roc Nation)

  August 12, 2011 – They are both obscenely wealthy; you, in all likelihood, are not. Let us neither over- nor underemphasize this aspect of Watch the Throne, the long-threatened, full-length Jay-Z/Kanye West summit, garish and glorious, exquisite and exasperating. Quick litmus test: Does the phrase "I'm planking on a million," which spills joyously from the lips of one Shawn Carter, fill you with revulsion? …
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  Breaking Out: Rittz

  August 1, 2011 – Last year, right before catching the biggest break of his career, Jonny "Rittz" Valiant was ready to quit. …
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  Amy Winehouse: Rock Myth, Hard Reality

  July 25, 2011 – It's inevitable, really, that we'd eventually choke a bit on the rock mythology that's been crammed down our collective throats for most of our lives. The tortured genius, the hellion libertine, the martyr dying for the noble cause of nihilism -- this is what we usually mean when we say "rock star," and we're always on the hunt for fresh blood. …
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  SPIN Remembers Clarence Clemons

  June 20, 2011 – When Lady Gaga's straight-outta-1986 video for "The Edge of Glory" premiered last Friday, Little Monsters everywhere were briefly flummoxed that the clip's lone extravagance was a man sitting on a fake stoop, barely lit, miming a saxophone solo. …
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  Gil Scott-Heron: A Tribute to Greatness

  June 2, 2011 – My beloved hiphop generation came of age at that meta-moment in history when it seemed that the artists among us could only aspire to remixing what came before. Writers wanted to become the James Baldwins and Zora Neale Hurstons of our time. The neo-soul movement was chockful of wannabe Marvin Gayes. …
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  EXCLUSIVE: New Okkervil River, Track-By-Track

  February 9, 2011 – Austin, Texas, folk rock outfit Okkervil River won't release their much-anticipated sixth album, I Am Very Far, until May 10, but they're slowly revealing the inner workings of the record, first with a live performance last month on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and continuing here with frontman Will Sheff's track-by-track preview, a SPIN exclusive. Recorded in a series of sessions -- in the band's hometown of Austin, at a studio in Conn …
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