It’s difficult at times to drive around Seattle and not recognize the ultramega imprint that Chris Cornell left behind on his hometown. At least it is for me. Even for a city that’s widely known for ruthlessly tearing away and repurposing its own history in the name of “progress” – think bigger, taller, glassier high-rises […]
“When I realized it made girls like me,” Conor Maynard jokes, about how he decided to commit his life to music. Whatever the motivation, his reputation for soul-searing, flawless vocals has earned the Brighton, UK-born pop star well-deserved global stardom. It’s been a full decade since Conor won MTV’s Brand New for 2012 Award, competing […]
After releasing a slew of singles over the past month, current SPIN cover star Yungblud has revealed the details of his third studio album. Titled Yungblud, the record will be released Sept. 2 through Locomotion/Geffen Records. The British rocker announced the album this morning (May 17) during a livestream of him getting a tattoo on his ribcage. […]
Atlanta’s Music Midtown festival will return to Piedmont Park Sept. 17-18 with a lineup featuring My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Future and Jack White. Phoebe Bridgers, Mitski, Turnstile, 2 Chainz, Denzel Curry, Phoenix, 100 gecs, Marc Rebillet and Tinashe are also on the bill. “Over twenty-five years strong,” Live Nation Atlanta President Peter Conlon […]
Built to Spill has released “Understood,” the second single from When the Wind Forgets Your Name, its debut album for new label Sub Pop. The track was inspired by daredevil Evel Knievel’s unsuccessful 1974 jump over Snake River Canyon in Built to Spill frontman Doug Martch’s hometown of Twin Falls, Idaho. As previously reported, When […]
Tianna Esperanza may be an artist on the rise, but she’d been holding on to one of her most powerful songs for nearly a decade. In high school, a history teacher recommended she watch The Black Power Mixtape. The documentary, which looks into the history of the Black Power movement from 1967 to 1975, includes […]
Original Pearl Jam drummer Dave Krusen rejoined his former bandmates on stage Monday night (May 16) in Fresno, Calif., his first multi-song concert performance with the group since May 25, 1991. With Matt Cameron still sidelined with COVID-19, Krusen became the latest drummer to fill in by playing all but two songs from Pearl Jam’s […]
Book Club is a new monthly series exploring the literature that inspires some of our favorite musicians. Whether it’s a music biography that got them through the slog of tour, the poetry collection that eked into their most poignant lyrics, or the novel that sparked a rock opera, we’ll get to the bottom of it […]
Hot Water Music are many things to many people. For some of us, they’re a scrappy group of bearded punks we saw play at a VFW Hall in the midwest in the ‘90s as kids (outside unironically played Foursquare and passed out Why Vegan pamphlets). Others discovered them on the Vans Warped Tour in the […]
Michael Jackson’s iconic Thriller will be reissued in an expanded edition in celebration of its 40th anniversary on Nov. 18 via Sony Music. The double-CD set will feature the original album as well as a second disc of “never-released tracks which were worked on by Michael for” Thriller, according to the label. Details for the […]