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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 10 Best Music Books of 2011</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[<b>SPIN's Best of 2011:</b>&#8226; <a href="https://www.spin.com/2011/12/one-fucked-year-spins-best-2011-issue/" target="blank">One Fucked Up Year: SPIN's Best of 2011 Issue</a>&#8226; <a href="https://www.spin.com/2011/12/spins-50-best-albums-2011/" target="blank">SPIN's 50 Best Albums of 2011</a>&#8226; <a href="https://www.spin.com/2011/12/spins-20-best-songs-2011/" target="blank">SPIN's 20 Best Songs of 2011</a>&#8226; <a href="https://www.spin.com/2011/12/spins-40-best-rap-albums-2011/" target="blank">SPIN's 40 Best Rap Albums of 2011</a>&#8226; <a href="https://www.spin.com/2011/12/spins-20-best-metal-albums-2011-plus-download-free-19-song-mixtape/" target="blank">SPIN's 20 Best Metal Albums of 2011</a>&#8226; <a href="https://www.spin.com/2011/12/spins-20-best-country-americana-albums-2011/" target="blank">SPIN's 20 Best Country &#38; Americana Albums of 2011</a>&#8226; <a href="https://www.spin.com/2011/12/spins-10-best-reissues-2011/" target="blank">SPIN's 10 Best Reissues of 2011&#8226; </a><a href="https://www.spin.com/gallery/spins-25-best-live-photos-2011" target="blank">SPIN's</a>&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 20 Best Country &#038; Americana Albums of 2011</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[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&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 20 Best Metal Albums of 2011: Plus Download Free 19-Song Mixtape!</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[Five Brooklyn bands, a few members of the Big 4, two albums named <i>Path of Totality</i>, and one sinister minister in a rubber skull mask. Watch the throne room.]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 10 Best Reissues of 2011</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Powell]]></dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[<i>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</i>&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 50 Best Albums of 2011</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[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. And here at home, who knew what to&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 20 Best Songs of 2011</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Aaron]]></dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Check out more of SPIN's countdowns of 2011's best music here: <a href="https://www.spin.com/2011/12/spins-40-best-rap-albums-2011/" target="blank">SPIN's 40 Best Rap Albums of 2011</a>&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>SPIN&#8217;s 40 Best Rap Albums of 2011</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[We tried our best to chart 2011's sprawling hip-hop universe <a href="https://www.spin.com/2011/11/insanely-obsessive-infographic-tries-vain-diagram-hip-hop-galaxy/">in infographic form</a>, we <a href="https://www.spin.com/2011/11/live-new-underground-spin-celebrates-hip-hops-diy-moment/"> deconstructed the New Underground</a>, we debated "Drizzy: Rap or R&#038;B or Just Plain Annoying?," and we <a href="https://www.spin.com/2011/11/odd-future-new-undergrounds-loud-family-goes-road/">toured with Odd Future</a>, courageously trying not to add to the number of adults saying "swag" in public. What eventually emerged from that journey was&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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