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Cropped cover of SPIN's 1994 Best New Music issue

Revisiting SPIN's 1994 New Music Preview

Kind of a disappointing issue, honestly

Cropped cover art for Cypress Hill's "Black Sunday" album

Blindspotting: Cypress Hill, "Black Sunday"

Time to break me off some

Dreamer Isioma, "I Am Going through Hell"

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 4/4/25

I am not afraid of New Music, for I am learning how to sail my Friday

Cropped cover art from the Stylistics' 2025 album "Falling in Love with My Girl"

You Again?: The Stylistics, "Falling in Love with My Girl"

Islands in the Stream: 4/1/25

Islands in the Stream: 4/1/25

Giving a little extra love to some artists who could use more of it

Grateful Dead, "American Beauty" (1970)

Blindspotting: Grateful Dead, "American Beauty"

What a long, strange trip it's been

Old Music Friday: 3/21/85

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Old Music Friday: 3/21/85

Counting down the singles that debuted on the Hot 100 this week in 1985

Cropped cover of SPIN's 1993 New Music Preview

Revisiting SPIN's 1993 New Music Preview

From the Buzz Bin to the cutout bin

Slayer, "Reign in Blood" cover art (1986)

Blindspotting: Slayer, "Reign in Blood"

Let's thrash, bitches

Old Music Friday: 3/14/85

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Old Music Friday: 3/14/85

Counting down the singles that debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 this week in 1985

A still from Foster the People's video for "Helena Beat"

The One After the One-Hit Wonder, Part 5

Top 40 success can be so fleeting. Just ask these artists

Photo from the Carpenters' 1971 album

Blindspotting: The Carpenters, "Carpenters"

Today's column is brought to you by the makers of insulin

Still from Jordan Hawkins' "Crazy" video

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New Music Friday: 3/7/25

It is only with the New Music that one can see Friday; what is essential is invisible to the eye

Cropped version of the cover artwork for Molly Hatchet's "Lightning Strikes Twice" album (1989)

Major Letdowns: Molly Hatchet, "Lightning Strikes Twice"

Flirt with disaster long enough, and she'll flirt right back

Photo from the cover of Wu-Tang Clan's "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)"

Blindspotting: Wu-Tang Clan, "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)"

At long last, investigating da mystery of chessboxin'

New Music Friday: 2/28/25

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New Music Friday: 2/28/25

I have always depended on the New Music of Friday

Islands in the Stream: 2/13/25

Islands in the Stream: 2/13/25

Giving some extra love to artists who deserve more of it

Cropped version of Jimmy Buffett's album artwork for "A-1-A" (1974)

Blindspotting: Jimmy Buffett, "A-1-A"

Wasting away, and then wasting some more

Cropped version of SPIN's New Music 1992 issue cover

Revisiting SPIN's 1992 New Music Preview

I wonder whatever happened to those Nirvana kids

Cropped version of Leonard Cohen's album cover for You Want It Darker (2016)

Blindspotting: Leonard Cohen, "You Want It Darker"

One last album of slammin' pop bangers from MC Leo

A hooded Corey Feldman doing terrible things on stage

Earmageddon: The Ex-Corey-Ation

What's even less appealing than an album by a former teen idol? A DOUBLE album by a former teen idol

A man wearing large hair curlers

Islands in the Stream: 1/29/25

Giving a little extra love to artists who deserve more of it

The cover of Bjork's POST album (1995, One Little Indian)

Blindspotting: Björk, "Post"

Bork! Bork! Bork!

New Music Friday: 1/24/25

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New Music Friday: 1/24/25

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; New, Music, Friday

Shot of Judd Nelson as Bender at the end of "The Breakfast Club"

The Big Music

Sneaking in a playlist real quick-like