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Marc Hogan (born October 3, 1981) is an American journalist. He currently works as a senior staff writer at
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. Hogan has been a music critic at Pitchfork since 2004. He has contributed to a number of other publications, including '' SPIN'', the ''
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. He also contributed to the book '' The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs From Punk to the Present''. Hogan was among the first to report on the cassette revival (in a 2010 article for Pitchfork) and broke the story of
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challenging Metallica's Lars Ulrich to a drum battle (in a 2014 article for ''SPIN''). In a 2017 article for ''Pitchfork'', Hogan published graphic excerpts from the deposition of a woman whom rapper
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was charged with beating, strangling and imprisoning while she was pregnant. In 2017, American music critic Robert Christgau cited "reviewer-turned-staff-writer Marc Hogan, an experienced investigative reporter with a grasp of basic political reality." Christgau wrote, "I say give Hogan a column that would spur him to dig up as much such stuff as he can." In 2005, ''
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'' columnist David Carr wrote of one of his Pitchfork album reviews that "the writer, Marc Hogan ... in his rave goes over the top and stays there to very nice effect." In 2012, ''New York Times'' columnist
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quoted his ''SPIN'' coverage of
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. He is a two-time ''Da Capo Best Music Writing'' "notable" mention. '' Slate'' cited his reviews in a 2006 piece titled "Die, Pitchfork, Die!: The indie music site that everyone loves to hate." Based in
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, Hogan has lived in California, Tennessee, Arizona, Massachusetts, Illinois, and New York. He graduated from the
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