Anna Calvi shares the mic with Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson and the National’s Matt Berninger on her new EP, Is This All There Is?, which Domino will release on March 20. The set, which is the first in a planned trilogy of new music, also includes a previously released cover of Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s “I […]
Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood is demanding a portion of the score he wrote for the 2017 Paul Thomas Anderson film Phantom Thread be removed from the recent documentary Melania. “It has come to our attention that a piece of music from Phantom Thread has been used in the Melania documentary,” reads a statement attributed to both […]
SPIN is moving its URL from SPIN.com to SPINMagazine.com to accentuate its legacy as the leading new music and multi-faceted media company of the last 40 years. SPIN also revived its print edition in 2024. “This isn’t a reinvention,” said SPIN CEO Jimmy Hutcheson. “It’s simply making it easier for people to find what they came for. Same voice, […]
Staffed by Turkish, Indonesian and Dutch members, Altın Gün have always favored tunings and tonalities exotic to Anglo-American ears. Utilizing a saz (a long-necked lute played in Eastern Europe, the Levant and Asia) as lead instrument adds distinctive flavor to their respectful yet non-rote modernizations of Turkish folk classics and to their own serpentine compositions. […]
On December 5, 2025, Spotify’s Wrapped statistics showed that Bad Bunny was the most-streamed artist of the year with 19.8 billion streams. To put that into perspective, there are a little over 8 billion people in the world, and streams of Bad Bunny’s music more than double the global population. His popularity shouldn’t come as […]
Since Record Store Day’s debut in April 2008, its annual celebration of vinyl and the culture of independently owned record stores has only grown wilder: from its start in the U.S. to becoming an international event; from being held one day in April to the inclusion of a second event on Black Friday; from hosting […]
Whatever expectation or preconception exists around Chet Faker—whether through his recorded music or onstage—the individual behind it, born Nick Murphy, is consistently unexpected and disarming. When I interviewed him in 2019 for his debut Nick Murphy album Run Fast Sleep Naked, he showed up carrying fresh-pressed juices in a shoulder cooler bag. Six years later, […]
“Many found the music offensive, the dancing objectionable, and the popularity of both with young people verging on a mental health crisis.” So writes music historian Susan C. Cook about ragtime, the heavily syncopated ancestor of jazz that arose in the late 1800s. Like all things, ragtime’s subversiveness faded over time, and, a century later, […]