title: Spin: 20 Years of Alternative Music: Original Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Techno, and Beyond
author: Spin Magazine
description: Will Hermes is a senior contributing writer for <i>SPIN</i> and a frequent contributor to NPRs<i> All Things Considered</i>, among other outlets. He is the author of the blog fiction Loose Strife. <br /><br />Sia Michel is the editor in chief of <i>SPIN</i>. 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.
zlib_text: MAVERICKS OF SOUND
  
  MAVERICKS OF SOUND
  Conversations with Artists Who
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  David Ensminger
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