Stephen Slaybaugh is a freelance writer with with more than 20 years experience. He’s written extensively about internet retail trends and deals for such websites as DealNews and TechRadar. As a music writer, he’s contributed to Paste, The Village Voice, and The Big Takeover, as well as his own webzine, The Agit Reader, and once had Johnny Rotten threaten to hangup on him. He makes a mean Manhattan, and when not writing, he can usually be found listening to records loudly.