Name Jennifer O’Connor Best known for Wearing a lot of hats. Current city Nyack, NY Really want to be in Any beach and it’s warm. My current music collection has a lot of German electronic music. And a little bit of Jazz/soundtracks. You wouldn’t expect me to listen to I listen to everything. Preferred format Vinyl at […]
When we first met Melody Prochet, the Paris-based singer-songwriter wasn’t mourning love lost; she was patiently feeding lost love to a sonic kaleidoscope and minting a DayGlo, beat-assisted species of shoegaze as lush, warm, and candied as Cam’ron’s 2002-2005 wardrobe or an interactive Yayoi Kusama installation. Her project’s 2012 debut remains a psychoactive magic carpet […]
Your “It’s Gonna Be May” Forecast: Ice Cube’s “Your Money or Your Life” is the theme song this month. May opens right after the first eclipse of 2022 and we are deep into Taurus bull territory. It’s all about values: skills, talents and how to use yours. After all, Taurus is the original show-me-the-money sign. Time […]
You probably wouldn’t have known it by looking, but The Head and the Heart were pretty burnt out following the 2019 release of their fourth album, Living Mirage. After a few stops and starts, co-founding member Josiah Johnson left the band for good during the sessions, and the remaining members were struggling so hard to […]
For the first time in several years, Tegan and Sara have new material. On Thursday, The sisters shared their latest single, “Fucking Up What Matters.” The Canadian duo’s “Fucking Up What Matters” is their first song that’s out on Mom+Pop Music. The song will be out on their upcoming studio album. [embedded content][embedded content] “‘Fucking […]
FX on Hulu’s new adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s best-selling book Under the Banner of Heaven has fans buzzing as much for its content as for project star Andrew Garfield’s recent revelation that he would be taking a hiatus from acting. Now, music fans will have added reason to check out the show, with the announcement […]
So, tonight we gonna party like it’s 1999, again. Prince‘s Estate released the recording of “1999” from Prince and The Revolution’s Syracuse, New York show during the 1985 Purple Rain tour. The show is considered one of the best in the artist’s live history. [embedded content][embedded content] The show took place on March 30, 1985 […]
Welcome to the latest (and, well, last) edition of Difficult Fun! Each month, SPIN has worked to spotlight the best punk on the planet and discuss it here, with the ambition of challenging preconceived notions of what the four-letter word actually means and, ideally, entertaining readers in the process. Purists, piss off! Everyone else, enjoy […]
You can’t get far in a Christian Lee Hutson song before a pretty scene or gentle start turns sour, jarred by reality. Sometimes, the turn is crude; other times, sardonic. On his second album, Quitters, opener “Strawberry Lemonade” starts, “In a dream drinking strawberry lemonade/Feeding quarters to a pinball game,” then adds evenly, “Getting paid […]
If celebrating the 20th anniversary of their classic album with concerts and a massive boxset, and announcing their own festival wasn’t enough, Wilco have an album of brand new material on the way. The band’s 12th studio album is called Cruel Country, and they shared its first single, “Falling Apart (Right Now),” today. [embedded content][embedded content] […]