Lady Gaga has unveiled her new song “Hold My Hand,” which runs over the end credits to Tom Cruise’s long-in-the-works Top Gun sequel, Top Gun: Maverick. Gaga co-produced the soaring power ballad with BloodPop, while Benjamin Rice contributed additional production. [embedded content][embedded content] “When I wrote this song for Top Gun: Maverick, I didn’t even […]
On the heels of their recent single “I’ll Make You See God,” Afghan Whigs will release their first album since 2017, How Do You Burn?, on September 9. The 10-track set features the first appearance on a Whigs album by the late Mark Lanegan, who collaborated with Whigs leader Greg Dulli on a number of […]
Maggie Freleng was pushing and practicing social justice before she even knew the concept’s nomenclature. As a child growing up in Long Island, New York, Maggie championed the underdog and spurned the scourge, making sure to step between every bully and their intended target. Years later, when Maggie left Long Island for college in Massachusetts, […]
On this week’s episode of SPIN Presents Lipps Service, host Scott Lipps sat down with his friend and longtime music industry personality Matt Pinfield. The two discuss Pinfield’s lengthy and decorated career in music, beginning with his days at MTV to working in A&R to having a Killers song written about him. Pinfield also shares […]
Ric Parnell, who portrayed Spinal Tap drummer Mick Shrimpton in the iconic 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap and later recorded and toured with the group, died on Sunday (May 1) at the age of 70. Harry Shearer, who portrayed Spinal Tap bassist Derek Smalls, revealed the news on his Twitter account. No cause of […]
Megan Thee Stallion received the ultimate hot girl treatment. The rapper was honored by her hometown of Houston, which had declared today Megan Thee Stallion Day, and was given the key to the city. “Came home real quick to get THEE KEY TO THEE CITY 🤘🏾 and in honor of my mother and grandmother’s birthday […]
It’s been more than nine years since the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ last studio album, but that will change this fall when the Karen O-led rock trio releases fresh music as part of a new deal with Secretly Canadian. The group, which also includes guitarist Nick Zinner and drummer Brian Chase, released its four prior albums, […]
The Red Hot Chili Peppers played an emotional set yesterday (May 1) to close the first weekend of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, filling the slot vacated by Foo Fighters following the March 25 death of drummer Taylor Hawkins. Hawkins’ widow Alison and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl were on hand for the […]
Most people at rapper-producer redveil’s age are working on an identity outside a prescribed cycle of routines–at school, at work, at home–to ready themselves for the independence and uncertainties of early adulthood. On the Maryland artist’s latest project, learn 2 swim, released on his 18th birthday, this search has been a public as well as […]
For the first time in ages, there were festivals all over the country. New Orleans Jazz Fest, Shaky Knees and Memphis’ Beale Street Music Festival. Foo Fighters were slated to headline Saturday night in Memphis and Sunday in New Orleans. but were replaced by Sammy Hagar and the Circle and Red Hot Chili Peppers, respectively. […]