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SPIN's 5 Best New Artists for February '12
Feb 2, 2012From an antifolk belter to a Brooklyn hip-hop trio, the lowdown on Willis Earl Beal, Flatbush Zombies, Perrion, Bleached, and GrimesRead More
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SPIN's 10 Most Innovative Music Videos of 2011
Dec 29, 2011From coachroach munching to dancing in the streets, the most thrilling clips of the yearRead More
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SPIN's 20 Best Pop Albums of 2011
Dec 22, 2011Here's a little something to enjoy with your boof boof. SPIN celebrates the girls that run the world, the Girls that run Korea, and one Fall Out Boy running dry. Read More
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SPIN's 20 Best Avant Albums of 2011
Dec 22, 2011Suffocating drones, feverish out jazz, bucolic fingerpicking, audacious shredding, gothic soundscapes, transcendent guitar armadas, and at least one dead salamander: Abandon all hope, Foster the People fans who enter here.Read More
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SPIN's 20 Best R&B Albums of 2011
Dec 21, 2011What constituted R&B this year? Arguing about it wasn't nearly as fun as listening to itRead More
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SPIN'S 20 Best Dance Albums of 2011
Dec 21, 2011House goes R&B, dubstep goes subterranean, panic goes to the disco, Justice goes to space, and moombahton does whatever moombahton wants. Groove, however, is still in the heart. Read More
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SPIN's 10 Best Music Books of 2011
Dec 20, 2011Conversations with the authors of the year's most compelling reads, from Chunklet's 'Indie Cred Test' to the oral history of MTVRead More
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SPIN's 20 Best Country & Americana Albums of 2011
Dec 20, 2011It was a bizarre year for whatever you think country is, or isn't. And a great one too.Read More
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SPIN's 20 Best Metal Albums of 2011: Plus Download Free 19-Song Mixtape!
Dec 19, 2011Five Brooklyn bands, a few members of the Big 4, two albums named 'Path of Totality,' and one sinister minister in a rubber skull mask. Watch the throne room.Read More
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SPIN's 10 Best Reissues of 2011
Dec 15, 2011From exhaustive anthologies to rock's most fabled lost treasure, ten history lessons you can (occasionally) dance toRead More
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SPIN's 20 Best Albums of 1991
Dec 13, 2011Look back at the year Teenage Fanclub won our heartsRead More
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SPIN's 50 Best Albums of 2011
Dec 12, 2011From Girls and Danny Brown to the Rapture and the Weeknd, the soundtrack to our majorly Fucked Up YearRead More
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SPIN's 20 Best Songs of 2011
Dec 9, 2011Look! We made you an awesome mixtape! Featuring M83, the Rapture, and, of course, Adele.Read More
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SPIN's 40 Best Rap Albums of 2011
Dec 8, 2011From billionaires bragging about Basquiats to Compton kids telling girls not to wear make-up, SPIN tackles the year in hip-hopRead More
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