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                <title>Down By Law: The Year Downloading Took a Dive</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[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. With his hulking 6-foot-7-inch, 300-plus-pound frame, his collection of firearms, his young model wife,&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>K-Pop Fizz Fizz: Life After PSY</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[One year ago, Y.G. Entertainment, now South Korea's most successful incubator and purveyor of pop music, celebrated its 15th birthday with three "Family Concerts" in three nights at the Olympic Gymnastic Arena in southeastern Seoul; the four-hour blowouts showcased the company’s top artists since its founding in 1996. Outside, in the cold December air, fans&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>Hear SPIN&#8217;s Favorite Songs of 2012 in a 101-Track Spotify Playlist</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[Forget all the <a href="https://www.spin.com/2012/12/best-albums-2012/">lists</a>, <a href="https://www.spin.com/2012/11/death-grips-artist-year-2012-no-love-deep-web/">features</a>, <a href="https://www.spin.com/2012/12/trend-of-the-year-alt-rb-2012-frank-ocean-weeknd-miguel/">thinkpieces</a>, and <a href="https://www.spin.com/2012/12/grimes-interview-2012-big-year/">interviews</a>&#160;we've been doing to celebrate the chaotic jumble that is 2012. When it gets right down to it, nothing matters more than the music itself. So here, presented with very little comment, is a Spotify playlist of 101 of our favorite songs from the last 12 months. This&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 40 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2012</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[The anarchy of the Internet — and the major-label system's attempt to harness it — has fractured the hip-hop narrative into its most diverse smash-up of personalities and ideas since the days when N.W.A and MC Hammer could exist safely in the same gang. Our list of the 40 best hip-hop records of the year&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 30 Best Live Photos of 2012</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[The most electric photos from 2012's live shows weren't taken on your Instagram. SPIN's crack team of photogs caught everything from some Cage rage, to some SunnO))) hum; from Bon Iver in a church to Slipknot at Soundwave. Here's 30 of our favorites.]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s Director of the Year Tom Scharpling on 2012&#8217;s Buzziest Music Videos</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[&#160;When Tom Scharpling isn't hosting the much-loved, free-form <em>The Best Show on WFMU</em>&#160;or interviewing the likes of Fucked Up's Damian Abraham for his <em>Low Times</em>&#160;podcast, he's directing charmingly low-key, ingeniously high-concept music videos. If all the former <em>Monk</em>&#160;producer-writer did this year was get erstwhile Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard to dress up like&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 50 Best Albums of 2012</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[In 2012, R&#38;B crooned underwater, metal went not-metal, and hip-hop fell into a K-hole, and these were just a few of the ways to make a big bang this year. Here's SPIN's favorite 50 albums — from the biggest-selling pop sensation (and pizza ad) of the year to anonymous Afro-psych from the wintry expanses of&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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