When Evan Felker got back to making music again with Turnpike Troubadours in 2022, it came with a new sense of balance. On the road, life tended to unfold at night at the microphone, but on his ranch in Central Oklahoma, Felker was up early and working with his hands. With about 200 cows, his […]
If you’re looking for a set of headphones that will stand out from the pack while serving up a powerful audio experience, look no further than the Meters OV-1-B-Connect. These artfully designed cans have a cool retro vibe bolstered by fully functioning VU gauges on each ear cup that light up in an array of […]
A Long Island hip-hop crew called Spectrum City evolved into Public Enemy in the mid-’80s, signed to Def Jam, and became one the most politically outspoken and musically innovative groups the genre had, and has, ever seen. Chuck D and Flavor Flav have been the group’s only two consistent members over the years: the high-minded […]
One of the more intriguing reissues of the 2020s is a rare, 50-year-old album by a band with a crap name. In Fall 1972, Greene Bottle Records, a subsidiary of Paramount, released the debut album by a New York City group called Pool-Pah, who combined odd synth excursions and strutting funk with winding prog arrangements […]
There is always risk in covering a song that feels sacred. Paula DeAnda’s 2006 hit Walk Away (Remember Me) is one of those songs that never really left the room. But in Jackson Breit’s latest reimagining, he does more than revisit the track. He rebuilds it with reverence and restraint, letting the original’s emotion simmer […]
Name Sam Carter singer for the band Architects. Best known for Being a little gobshite on stage with my band. Current city I’m currently on a plane flying to Nashville. Really want to be in Kyoto Japan. I’d be sat by the river that flows through the center of the city watching the herons and eagles fly about. That […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The Pogues performing in Amsterdam on November 4, 1989. (Credit: Frans Schellekens/Redferns) Elvis Costello loved the Pogues in the 1980s. The band’s opinions of Costello, however, were mixed. Bassist Cait O’Riordan began […]
Music producer and DJ Jorge Duarte, better known as Jörgen, releases his first single, “Montañas Oscuras,” for SPIN Records today (August 1), available across all streaming platforms. “‘Montañas Oscuras’ was born out of pure inspiration,” says Jörgen. “After attending Skyline Festival in Los Angeles in 2025, where Marco Carola and the Martinez Brothers delivered unforgettable […]
Chappell Roan offers a valentine to the Big Apple on her new single, “The Subway,” which is out now in tandem with an Amber Grace Johnson-directed music video. “This song encompasses everything I love about New York City — with the hope, heartbreak and healing that it has to offer us all,” the artist said […]
In lieu of a more traditional album release, Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams has dropped 17 individual new tracks on DSPs through her Post Atlantic imprint, which is distributed by Secretly Distribution. They were produced by Daniel James and also include contributions from Brian Robert Jones, Joey Howard and Jim-E Stack. Williams debuted the shoegaze-steeped “Mirtazapine” […]