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  This week's Deep Cut Friday column on Spin is about Garbage's "Hammering in My Head." 

  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...

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...

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...

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

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

  I appeared on the podcast The Bogus Otis Show to talk about the Van Halen catalog. 

  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...

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