Sean Fennessey |
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Hello,
My name is Sean Fennessey. So if you’re looking for that person, you’ve found him. I know, the Internet is magic. This is where we keep work things. I am presently an editor and writer at GQ, overseeing daily content at GQ.com. I have been an editor at VIBE, Complex, Stuff, and eMusic, as well as a freelance writer for The Village Voice, SPIN, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and others. I blog about films and songs and sneakers and memes at Split Infinitives. I also use the web application Twitter. Amazing, I know. @sean_fennessey
SELECTED PUBLISHED WORK
The Village Voice
Love vs. Money: The Weeknd, Frank Ocean, and R&B’s Future Shock
Randy Newman Bores Small Children, Charms Everyone Else At Town Hall
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Throw Taylor Swift in a Well
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? The Joy of the Work
Kanye West, Finally Unraveled: Plumbing The Gorgeous Depths of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Live: Lykke Li Soundtracks Your Personal Makeout Session
Live: Kanye West at Bowery Ballroom Ranting, Seething, Enthralling
Waka Flocka Flame Is Yelling At You
Wavves and Best Coast, Sitting in a Tree
Back To Africa With Nas and Damian Marley
Take Donald Glover and Das Racist’s Joke Rap Seriously
Jay-Z’s ‘Empire’ Strikes Back At Last
The (Almost)-40-Year-Old Sex Fiend: Ghostface Killah
Bon Iver: Digital Love, Analog Grief
A Comprehensive Guide To B.o.B, the Rapping Coldplay Acolyte Who Is About To Be Enormously Famous
“Power,” Paintings, and Pomposity: The uncertain Evolution of Kanye West’s Videos
Live: Girls Have Their Moment at the Bowery Ballroom
Live: Jay-Z Celebrates Life, Death, and The Blueprint 3 at Madison Square Garden
The 2010 Grammy Live Blog: Where Puns Happen
The Ecstasy, the Agony: Live Blogging the 2009 MTV VMAs
The Bieber Bowl: The 2010 Video Music Awards Live-Blog
GQ
You’re Not Gonna Believe This, But The Current Season of Entourage Is Great
How To Make It Through How To Make It In America
A Man Possessed: The (Repeated) Paranoia of Leonardo DiCaprio
Three Things About American Idol: A Season-Long Journey
Los Angeles Times
The Bold, Crazy World of Adult Swim
Vulture
Piranha 3D Director Alexandre Aja On Putting 80,000 Gallons of Blood To Good Use
Neil Kellerhouse on The House of the Devil’s Arty, Retro Posters
It Takes A Special Talent To Fuse Cypress Hill and Crosby, Stills and Nash: A Jim Jonsin Primer
The Ten Most Horrifying Horrorcore Rappers
The Washington Post
ALBUM REVIEW: Eminem, Recovery
ALBUM REVIEW: 3OH!3, Streets of Gold
ALBUM REVIEW: Kelis, Flesh Tone
ALBUM REVIEW: Rick Ross, Teflon Don
ALBUM REVIEW: Fat Joe, The Darkside Vol. 1
ALBUM REVIEW: Mike Posner, 31 Minutes To Takeoff
ALBUM REVIEW: Usher, Versus
ALBUM REVIEW: Trey Songz, Passion, Pain, & Pleasure
ALBUM REVIEW: John Legend & The Roots, Wake Up!
ALBUM REVIEW: Mark Ronson & The Business Int’l., Record Collection
ALBUM REVIEW: Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans
ALBUM REVIEW: Die Antwoord, $O$
ALBUM REVIEW: Tye Tribbett, Fresh
ALBUM REVIEW: Mariah Carey, Merry Christmas II You
ALBUM REVIEW: Kid Rock, Born Free
ALBUM REVIEW: Soulja Boy, The DeAndre Way
ALBUM REVIEW: T.I., No Mercy
ALBUM REVIEW: R. Kelly, Love Letter
ALBUM REVIEW: LOST TRACKS: Roc Marciano, Marcberg
ALBUM REVIEW: White Lies, Ritual
ALBUM REVIEW: Mouse On Tha Track, Swagga Fresh Freddie
ALBUM REVIEW: Lupe Fiasco, Lasers
ALBUM REVIEW: Chris Brown, F.A.M.E.
SPIN
FEATURE: How Kid Cudi Made It In America
FEATURE: Drake: Rapper of the Year
FEATURE: Nicki Minaj: Rookie of the Year
Breaking Out: Titus Andronicus
ALBUM REVIEW: TV On The Radio, Nine Types of Light
ALBUM REVIEW: Lykke Li, Wounded Rhymes
ALBUM REVIEW: Broken Bells, Broken Bells
ALBUM REVIEW: Big Boi, Sir Lucious Left Foot
ALBUM REVIEW: The Walkmen, Lisbon
ALBUM REVIEW: Mobb Deep, Blood Money
ALBUM REVIEW: The Teenagers, Reality Check
ALBUM REVIEW: LL Cool J, Todd Smith
ALBUM REVIEW: Arctic Monkeys, Humbug
ALBUM REVIEW: Rain Machine, Rain Machine
ALBUM REVIEW: Kid Sister, Ultraviolet
ALBUM REVIEW: Mayer Hawthorne, A Strange Arrangement
ALBUM REVIEW: Muse, The Resistance
ALBUM REVIEW: Gucci Mane, The State vs. Radric Davis
ALBUM REVIEW: Rihanna, Rated R
ALBUM REVIEW: Rick Ross, Deeper Than Rap
ALBUM REVIEW: Kate Nash, My Best Friend Is You
ALBUM REVIEW: Erykah Badu, New AmErykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
ALBUM REVIEW: Neil Young, Le Noise
ALBUM REVIEW: Vado, Slime Flu
Blender
eMusic
Icon: Jay-Z, A Complete Critical Discography
Icon: The Notorious B.I.G., A Complete Critical Discography
Icon: The Replacements, A Complete Critical Discography
Icon: Beck, A Complete Critical Discography
Six Degrees of Rick James’ Street Songs
ALBUM REVIEW: Titus Andronicus, The Monitor
ALBUM REVIEW: Randy Newman, Good Old Boys
ALBUM REVIEW: Weezer, Hurley
ALBUM REVIEW: No Age, Everything In Between
ALBUM REVIEW: Aloe Blacc, Good Things
ALBUM REVIEW: Jazmine Sullivan, Fearless
ALBUM REVIEW: Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
ALBUM REVIEW: Alicia Keys, The Diary of Alicia Keys
ALBUM REVIEW: Violent Femmes, Violent Femmes
ALBUM REVIEW: Usher, Confessions
ALBUM REVIEW: John Legend, Get Lifted
ALBUM REVIEW: The B-52s, The B-52s
ALBUM REVIEW: Neon Indian, Psychic Chasms
ALBUM REVIEW: Showbiz & A.G., Runaway Slave
ALBUM REVIEW: Surfer Blood, Astro Coast
ALBUM REVIEW: Javelin, No Mas
ALBUM REVIEW: Macy Gray, On How Life Is
Rolling Stone
Jay-Z Debates Hip Hop, Greed, and Social Activism
Ne-Yo’s Superhero Concept Album
Mr. Hudson Politely Introduces Himself
Whitney Houston Returns: Diva Debuts I Look To You in New York
Pitchfork
The /b/ Boys: Odd Future and The Swag Generation
ALBUM REVIEW: Gil Scott-Heron/Jamie Smith: We’re New Here
ALBUM REVIEW: Jay-Z: The Hits Collection, Vol. 1
ALBUM REVIEW: Grinderman, Grinderman 2
ALBUM REVIEW: Queens of the Stone Age, Rated R (Reissue)
ALBUM REVIEW: Clipse, Hell Hath No Fury
ALBUM REVIEW: R. Kelly, Untitled
ALBUM REVIEW: Pharrell, In My Mind
ALBUM REVIEW: Hot Chip, The Warning
ALBUM REVIEW: Spankrock, Yoyoyoyo
ALBUM REVIEW: Girl Talk, Night Ripper
ALBUM REVIEW: BLK JKS, After Robots
ALBUM REVIEW: Kanye West, Late Registration
ALBUM REVIEW: Nelly Furtado, Loose
ALBUM REVIEW: Mos Def, True Magic
ALBUM REVIEW: Young Jeezy, Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101
ALBUM REVIEW: Nellie McKay, Pretty Little Head
ALBUM REVIEW: Aloe Blacc, Shine Through
ALBUM REVIEW: Clipse, We Got It 4 Cheap Vol. 1 & 2
VIBE
Dirty Pop: How Hip-Hop Consumed Pop
Natural Selection: Robin Thicke Rising
One Man Band Man: How Will.i.am Might Save The Music Industry
The 77 Best Lil Wayne Songs of 2007
From Jay To Z: A Complete Jay-Z Songography
Polow Da Don: The Sound Sovereign
Toni! Toni! Toni!: A Reader’s Guide To Toni Morrison
Timbaland’s Shock Value review
Splitsider
SNL and The Curse of the Transitional Season
This Recording
In Which It’s All About The Performance, Man
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