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| birth_name = | alias = | birth_place = U.S.| death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | body_discovered = | education = | occupation = Journalist| spouse = Angela Hogan| partner = Pitchfork Media>Pitchfork}}Marc Hogan (born October 3, 1981) is an American journalist. He currently works as a senior staff writer at Pitchfork.WEB,weblink Masthead, Pitchfork, October 5, 2016,

Career

Hogan has been a music critic at Pitchfork since 2004.WEB,weblink Marc Hogan, Pitchfork, October 5, 2014, He has contributed to a number of other publications, including SPIN, the Financial Times, eMusic.com editorial site Wondering Sound, NPR Music, Billboard, Salon, BusinessWeek.com, Paste, Playboy.com, and the Chicago Tribune, and he has discussed his work on NPR, the BBC, Sound Opinions, WNYC, ABC World News Webcast, and CNBC. He also contributed to the book (Pitchfork 500|The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs From Punk to the Present).{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}In 2005, The New York Times 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."NEWS,weblink David Carr, Garage Rock Meets Garage Critics, The New York Times, August 29, 2005, October 5, 2014, Slate cited his reviews in a 2006 piece titled "Die, Pitchfork, Die!: The indie music site that everyone loves to hate."WEB,weblink The indie music site that everyone loves to hate, Matthew Shaer, November 28, 2006, Slate, October 5, 2014, Hogan was among the first to report on the cassette revival (in a 2010 article for Pitchfork) and broke the story of Will Ferrell challenging Metallica's Lars Ulrich to a drum battle (in a 2014 article for SPIN).WEB,weblink Articles, Pitchfork, October 5, 2014, NEWS,weblink Hitting Rewind on the Cassette Tape, Rob Walker, April 23, 2010, The New York Times, October 5, 2014, WEB,weblink Mark Hogan, Q&A: Will Ferrell and Chad Smith Challenge Metallica's Lars Ulrich to Drum-Off, June 10, 2014, Spin, October 5, 2014, MAGAZINE, Kory Grow,weblink Will Ferrell and Chad Smith's Next Drum-Off Target: Metallica's Lars Ulrich, June 10, 2014, Rolling Stone, October 5, 2014, In 2012, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd quoted his SPIN coverage of Nicki Minaj.NEWS, February 14, 2012,weblink Maureen Dowd, That Old Black Magic, The New York Times, October 5, 2014, In a 2017 article for Pitchfork, Hogan published graphic excerpts from the deposition of a woman whom rapper XXXTentacion was charged with beating, strangling and imprisoning while she was pregnant.WEB,weblink XXXTentacion's Reported Victim Details Grim Pattern of Abuse in Testimony, Pitchfork, September 8, 2017, November 29, 2017, NEWS,weblink LCD Soundsystem, Leaning on Traditional Sales, Has a No. 1 Album, Sisario, Ben, September 11, 2017, The New York Times, November 29, 2017, 0362-4331, Also that year, American music critic Robert Christgau cited "reviewer-turned-staff-writer Marc Hogan, an experienced investigative reporter with a grasp of basic political reality."WEB,weblink Who the Fuck Knows, Christgau, Robert, May 2, 2017, The Paris Review, November 29, 2017, Christgau wrote, "I say give Hogan a column that would spur him to dig up as much such stuff as he can."{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}He is a two-time Da Capo Best Music Writing "notable" mention.BOOK,weblink registration, da capo christgau., Da Capo Best Music Writing, Robert Christgau, Daphne Carr, Da Capo Press, 2007, 9780306815614, October 5, 2014, BOOK,weblink registration, 300, Best Music Writing 2011, Internet Archive, 2011, 9780306819636, October 5, 2014,

Personal life

Based in Des Moines, Iowa, Hogan has lived in California, Tennessee, Arizona, Massachusetts, Illinois, and New York. He graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}

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