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December 20, 2011 – SPIN's Best of 2011:• One Fucked Up Year: SPIN's Best of 2011 Issue• SPIN's 50 Best Albums of 2011• SPIN's 20 Best Songs of 2011• SPIN's 40 Best Rap Albums of 2011• SPIN's 20 Best Metal Albums of 2011• SPIN's 20 Best Country & Americana Albums of 2011• SPIN's 10 Best Reissues of 2011• SPIN's 25 Best Live Photos of 2011• Endless Bummer: 30 Ways 2011 Was a Drag
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December 20, 2011 – Nashville insiders vs. Nashville "outsiders." Curtain calls for all-time legends vs. exhilarating breakthroughs from possible new ones. Alt-country louts seeking contentment vs. rehabilitated alt-country louts finding contentment. Vivid homages to everyone from Hank Williams to Loretta Lynn to Alabama to Steve Earle to Tom Petty. A bizarre year for whatever you think country is, or isn't. And a great one too. …
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December 19, 2011 –
Five 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.
Plus, click below to download our Metal List Mixtape, a two-hour zipfile tour through our best-of list featuring tracks from every artist on our rundown (except Mastodon -- thanks, bros!). …
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December 15, 2011 –
EDITOR'S NOTE: There are two ways (at least) to look at the apparently neverending glut of Reissues currently being churned out by the superstar-lacking, MP3-haunted music industry. One, the repeated repackaging of certain artists' catalogues has reached a questionable, almost laughable extreme -- Pink Floyd seemingly believe their fans smoked so much weed while listening to the Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, et al. …
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December 12, 2011 – Everywhere you looked this year there was an absurd or chaotic or turbulent situation that made absolutely no sense whatsoever — people all over the world seemed so fed up that they were willing to make shit up on their own, on the spot, damn the consequences. …
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December 9, 2011 – Check out more of SPIN's countdowns of 2011's best music here: SPIN's 40 Best Rap Albums of 2011
20. FLEET FOXES, "Helplessness Blues" An earnest orphan raised by '60s wolves turns up on the doorstep of 2011, tries to write a generational folk anthem, muddles allegiances, imagines he owns a frickin' orchard -- poignant confusion reigns.
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December 8, 2011 – We tried our best to chart 2011's sprawling hip-hop universe in infographic form, we deconstructed the New Underground, we debated "Drizzy: Rap or R&B or Just Plain Annoying?," and we toured with Odd Future, courageously trying not to add to the number of adults saying "swag" in public. …
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All Time SPIN's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time
All Time The 30 Greatest Dubstep Songs of All Time
SPIN Era 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years
SPIN Lists Hated in the Nation: The 30 Biggest Punching Bags in Pop History
Locrian, Return to Annihilation
Palms, Palms
Heliotropes, A Constant Sea
Spectrals, Sob Story
Red Hare, Nites Of Midnite
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Christopher Paul Stelling, False Cities
Big Eyes, Almost Famous
Japanther, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Mind Control
Pure X, Crawling Up The Stairs
pacificUV, After The Dream You Are Awake
Destroid, The Invasion
Marques Toliver, Land of CanAan
Roomrunner, Ideal Cities
Gene The Southern Child & Parallel Thought, Artillery Splurgin'
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