Blue Chips is a monthly rap column that highlights exceptional rising rappers. To read previous columns, click here. There’s nothing inherently wrong with horrorcore. The word emerged as a shorthand for rap that shares commonalities with horror films, songs that traffic in physical and psychological terror. Geto Boys’ “Mind Playing Tricks on Me,” one of […]
Three years after the government seized hedge fund manager and overly smug pile of human trash Martin Shkreli’s copy of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin back in 2018, it’s now in the hands of an unknown buyer. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York didn’t say who they sold the exclusive […]
Joey Jordison, the founding drummer and co-songwriter of Slipknot, has died at the age of 46. Jordison’s family announced the news in a statement. Jordison died in his sleep on Monday, July 26. See the full statement from Jordison’s family below: We are heartbroken to share the news that Joey Jordison, prolific drummer, musician and […]
Who needs a car when you’ve got a plane? The Offspring have put a spin on James Corden’s popular Carpool Karaoke with Cockpit Karaoke — a video series that sees frontman Dexter Holland and guitarist Noodles singing along to some of the band’s biggest hits from inside a private jet that’s being flown by Holland, who’s […]
Welcome to the fourth edition of Difficult Fun! Each month, SPIN will 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. Apathy is one hell of […]
Foo Fighters released Hail Satin, their split Bee Gees cover album/Medicine at Midnight live songs (which you can read our review of here). Record Store Day album last weekend. The collection, unsurprisingly, is quite popular and is fetching hundreds of dollars for the wax version. Even though it’s also on Spotify, it hasn’t stopped the newly-christened Dee Gees […]
Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins took to Instagram today to announce the upcoming arrival of their newest live vinyl, Live at the Viper Room 1998. “The thing you hear in the Viper Room show is you’re really sort of being allowed into the studio where the songs don’t have the accouterment of all the […]
In 2017, Hall of Fame Inductee and former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic conjured a musical project. The product was Giants in the Trees, a Northwestern rock band made up of four harmonious components: Jillian Raye, Erik Friend, Ray Prestegard, and Novoselic himself. While the quartet’s ties to Seattle are as obvious as they are appealing, their […]
Vince Staples, the eponymous release by the Long Beach rapper, takes quick stock of his lifestyle against the backdrop of his troubled past. Staples, who has long reckoned with the complications of the fame his music brought him, does not linger on this description, instead keeping to the cold honesty and tight arrangements of his […]
Todd Ahsmann isn’t sure if he’s ever seen live music without a beer in his hand. The Goose Island president and former music industry vet says beer and music go hand in hand. “We should be collaborating,” Ahsmann says. “The half-joke used to be that rock radio was funded by beer because beer companies were […]