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  The Year In Taylor Swift

  December 28, 2012 – For Taylor Swift, the past 12 months have been the moment when the always crossover-hungry country singer finally and unabashedly embraced pop. She also issued what should be her ultimate statement on angry post-breakup songs, so she never, ever has to record one again (we hope — if only for her own sake!). …
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  SPIN's 2012 Hall of Shame

  December 27, 2012 – They made disappinting, often horrific art. They issued tone-deaf statements. They tattooed images of their battered ex-girlfriends on their necks. A look back at the year's lowliest lights. …
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  The Year in Lana Del Rey

  December 26, 2012 – From the outset, 2012 offered few figures as divisive as Lana Del Rey. Some saw her as a desperate, pre-fab "indie" marketing creation. Others were enamored with her glamorous aura and lush, languorous music. By the end of the year, though, much of the initial indignation toward the self-styled "gangsta Nancy Sinatra" had faded away. No one rode the hype-backlash roller coaster with more élan than LDR. …
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  Grim Weepers: The Year Film Embraced the Dark Night

  December 21, 2012 – Decisions, decisions: A filmgoer had to make a lot of on-the-fly calls when they saddled up to the multiplex window and plopped down their stack of crisp Lincolns for a ticket this year. Did you want a superhero film that features just one DSM-diagnosable masked man, or a whole furrowed-brow gaggle of them? Should you go see Channing Tatum clothed, semi-clothed, or stripped-down altogether? …
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  SPIN's 10 Best Music Books of 2012

  December 19, 2012 – James Brown's life was as deep and mythic as his celebrated groove. In the magisterial, rollicking biography The One: The Life and Music of James Brown, former SPIN staff writer RJ Smith goes further than anyone ever has in getting to the formidable, often contradictory essence of the Godfather of Soul. …
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  State of Dance Music 2012: Have We Already Peaked?

  December 18, 2012 – I don't want to alarm anyone, but it looks like we may have reached peak dubstep.That might be news to Muse, Taylor Swift, Ke$ha, Chris Brown, and all the other artists who cribbed from dubstep's broken rhythms and buzzing palette in an effort to sound more timely — or, at the very least, to get a leg up in the SEO wars. …
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  SPIN's 20 Best Dance Albums of 2012

  December 17, 2012 – Last season's post-dubstep murmurs and moombahton grooves have ceded the spotlight to the class of 2012. This year's best dance albums move with the frenetic jostle of footwork, the slam-dance frenzy of festival dubstep's newest mutations, the drilling rattle of the EBM revival, the hypnotic pulse of Cuban drums, and the "I-can't-believe-it's-called-trap-rave" of trap rave. Thank5! …
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  The Year in NSFW: 2012's 25 Most Nude and Ew Musical Moments

  December 14, 2012 – Last year SPIN picked an album by a band with an R-rated name as our No. 1 LP of the year, but the the world has gotten far more Fucked Up since. It seemed like we were typing the shorthand for "not safe for work" nearly every week this year — because we were. Here's a timeline featuring the 25 videos and album covers your boss would probably prefer you peep from the safety of your home. …
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  Down By Law: The Year Downloading Took a Dive

  December 14, 2012 – In the early dawn hours of January 20, 2012, in a small village on the outskirts of Auckland, New Zealand, heavily armed police (with help from an FBI logistics team) descended on the lavish mansion owned by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. …
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  SPIN's 40 Best Songs of 2012

  December 9, 2012 – Do you remember when you first heard "Gangnam Style" and the small child next to you looked up and went, "Really, man? …
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