“The villain is the character that the people remember,” said actor Udo Kier, an icon of world cinema who’s carved out his own specific niche of Euro-flavored antagonists in a career spanning six decades. But remembrance, and inevitable reverence, for villains bears a divisiveness as we’re morally conditioned to demonize them. (Credit: Getty Images) The […]
Kenshi Yonezu approaches each project with focus, and “JANE DOE” is no exception. Written as the ending theme for Chainsaw Man: The Movie – Reze Arc, the song contrasts the adrenaline of “IRIS OUT” with something much softer and more vulnerable. From the beginning, Yonezu didn’t imagine himself as the main voice of the song. […]
Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard will host the first episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live of 2026, with musical guest A$AP Rocky joining the fun on Jan. 17. Rocky’s long-awaited new album, Don’t Be Dumb, will be released the day before by A$AP Worldwide/RCA. It’s the follow-up to 2018’s Testing, which debuted at No. 4 […]
After weeks of breathless online speculation, British rapper EsDeeKid and actor Timothée Chalamet confirmed Friday (Dec. 19) that they aren’t, in fact, the same person by appearing together in a video for a remix of the former’s song “4 Raws.” It’s also no surprise that the reveal came just ahead of the Dec. 25 wide […]
Taylor Momsen breezes into a Manhattan diner like a benevolent banshee, her pale skin and long blonde hair shock against her all-black silhouette. She’s just come from a makeup trial, lids dusted with iridescent shadow glow against her blue eyes. She orders a Coke Zero with a straw, curling her long fingers around the pebbled […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Prince released an album almost every year of the 1980s, but his output was so prolific throughout that decade that there was always more material spilling forth through other outlets. He wrote […]
Name Mike Edwards Best known for Singer from Jesus Jones, EMF’s best known side project. Current city I don’t live in a city, and without referring to Google Maps to see where my nearest cathedral is, I expect my closest qualifying metropolis would be Birmingham. Really want to be in Most of the time, I would rather be somewhere in […]
You know that overwhelming feeling of uneasiness you’ve been experiencing lately? That sense of dread and uncertainty, as if you’re waiting for the next bad thing to happen? Perhaps you’ve felt an unexplainable tightness in your chest, followed by a shortness of breath, and thousands of “what if?” thoughts invading your head. If so, you […]
“Sometimes I wish I didn’t feel so much,” says Mon Laferte. “On a normal day, I probably find myself crying 10 different times. I wake up, walk into my garden, and suddenly I feel everything: the sky, the clouds, a butterfly. I find beauty even in a garbage dump. I start making up stories: who […]
After falling apart onstage in Boston last September when frontman Perry Farrell attacked guitarist Dave Navarro, Jane’s Addiction has announced its official breakup. The four members have also issued apologies to one another for the band’s unfortunate fate, which involved cancelling an in-progress tour, aborting new music, a host of social media finger-pointing and, eventually, […]