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Friday, December 05, 2025

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  This week's Deep Cut Friday column on Spin is about Garbage's "Hammering in My Head." 
Thursday, December 04, 2025

The 20 Best R&B Radio Hits of 2025

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  Most years that I've done EOY R&B lists, it feels like I'm talking around the huge collapse of crossover success for R&B a...
Wednesday, December 03, 2025

The 20 Best Rap Radio Hits of 2025

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The news  in October that there were no rap songs in the top 40 of the Hot 100 for the first time since 1990 occasioned a lot of handwringin...
Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Monthly Report: December 2025 Singles

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1. Nine Inch Nails - "As Alive As You Need Me To Be" I'm fond of saying that Trent Reznor has made more great music in the 21s...
Monday, December 01, 2025

Monthly Report: November 2025 Albums

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1. Rosalia - Lux Rosalia traveled in one direction over the course of her first three albums, from flamenco to reggaeton and from acoustic t...
Friday, November 28, 2025

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  This week on Spin, I wrote a Deep Cut Friday column about Fleetwood Mac's "World Turning." I also wrote about the history o...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

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  I appeared on the podcast The Bogus Otis Show to talk about the Van Halen catalog. 
Monday, November 24, 2025

TV Diary

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  a)  "Pluribus" Vince Gilligan created one short-lived CBS series in 2015, but it kinda felt to me like in the 17 years since cre...
Friday, November 21, 2025

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  I wrote about Beyonce's "Schoolin' Life" for Spin's Deep Cut Friday column this week. 
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