Marc Hogan (born October 3, 1981) is an American journalist. He currently works as a senior staff writer at

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Career

Hogan has been a music critic at Pitchfork since 2004. He has contributed to a number of other publications, including ''

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'', and he has discussed his work on

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, ABC World News Webcast, and

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. He also contributed to the book '' The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs From Punk to the Present''. 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." ''

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'' cited his reviews in a 2006 piece titled "Die, Pitchfork, Die!: The indie music site that everyone loves to hate." 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

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to a drum battle (in a 2014 article for ''SPIN''). In 2012, ''New York Times'' columnist

Maureen Dowd Maureen Brigid Dowd (; born January 14, 1952) is an American columnist for ''The New York Times'' and an author. During the 1970s and early 1980s, Dowd worked for ''The Washington Star'' and ''Time'', writing news, sports and feature articles. ...

quoted his ''SPIN'' coverage of

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. 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. Also that year, American music critic

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

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." He is a two-time ''Da Capo Best Music Writing'' "notable" mention.

Personal life

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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