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The Spin Top 40: The Most Vital Artists in Music, 1997
He Said, She Said: An Interview With John Lennon
Frankie Cosmos Is Ready to Be Herself
Transgender and Black, Searching for an Audience
HOLYCHILD Break Down Their Top 10 ‘Brat Pop’ Influences
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The Sound and the Furry: Making a Psychedelic Muppet With Dan Deacon
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I Did It My Way: Hamilton Leithauser Enters His Second Act
Liberation Days: Peter Matthew Bauer Begins His Spiritual Search
The Wonderful World of Walter Martin
How Composer Brian Reitzell Became Hollywood’s Recluse Whisperer
Freak Scene: 2014’s Weird World of Underground Rap
You Gotta Heal: Strand of Oaks Faces Down His Demons
Hundred Waters Run Deep
Clear Skies for Cloud Nothings
Young Adult Friction: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s Rebirth
Nashville’s Son: The Life and Death of an Indie-Rock Prince
Joakim Splashes Down and Grows Up
Body Music: tUnE-yArDs’ Undulating Brilliance
Rhythm & Snooze: From Sohn to Chet Faker, A Global Group of Artists Explore the EDM-R&B Axis
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out: EMA Screams Into the Void
The Hitman and the Trickster: Todd Terje’s Improbable Disco
Hashtags and Heartbreak: Iamsu!, Sage the Gemini, and the Bay Area’s New Rap Revolution
Dance Like No One’s Watching: Future Islands Break Out On Their Own Terms
Madlib Muses on Methods Behind His Madness
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The Boys Next Door: Real Estate’s Subtle Charms
Ty Dolla $ign’s Permanent Vacation
We Major: How the Record Business Finally Learned to Sell EDM
The Art of Hustle: Pounding the Pavement With Uncrowned, Rock’s Hungriest Unsigned Band
Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lester Bangs, and ‘Almost Famous,’ by Jaan Uhelszki
Green Day: Read SPIN’s 1994 ‘Dookie’ Story ‘Young, Loud, and Snotty’
Northern Lights, Southern Cross: The Gentle Devastation of Doug Paisley
Vampire Weekend Are 2013’s Band of the Year
The Odd Couple: Royal Trux’s Curious Legacy
M.I.A.: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Artist
Deaf Jams: The Surprising, Conflicted, Thriving World of Hearing-Impaired Rappers
Omar Souleyman: The Wedding Singer
Tim Hecker: Attack of the Drones
Miami Vices: A Weekend With Rick Ross and His Maybach Music Group
Kathleen Hanna: Love Among the Ruin
$tyle War$: Odd Future and A$AP Mob’s Rebel Fashion Strategies
Waiting for the Drop: Las Vegas’ EDM Gamble
Austra: Flight of the Valkyrie
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