Spin: 20 Years of Alternative Music Original Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Techno, and Beyond by Spin Magazine ISBN 13: 9780307236623

Will Hermes is a senior contributing writer for SPIN and a frequent contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered , among other outlets. He is the author of the blog fiction Loose Strife. Sia Michel is the editor in chief of SPIN . She won a 1999 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for her reporting on the highly controversial death of hip-hop icon Notorious B.I.G. and is the first woman to be named editor in chief of a major rock music magazine.