Christian David Hoard is an American music journalist and music editor for ''

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''. A 2000 graduate of the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, he began his career as a music journalist writing for the '' Michigan Daily''. He later moved to

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, where he interned for ''

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'' and met

Robert Christgau Robert Thomas Christgau ( ; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known and influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and ...

, who became his mentor. Christgau also later convinced his colleagues at ''Rolling Stone'' to allow Hoard to write for the magazine after Hoard became an intern there; he later became the magazine's senior editor. Along with Nathan Brackett, he co-edited ''

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'', which was published in 2004. In 2016, he replaced Brackett as ''Rolling Stone''s music editor.

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