After having their grand plans to celebrate their 25th anniversary as a band shelved due to COVID, Foo Fighters are finally ready to hit the road. The group had been teasing activity throughout the holiday weekend, and now we know why. In honor of what’s now their 26th anniversary, the Foos announced a handful of […]
Guns N’ Roses have announced the rescheduled dates for their U.S. tour, which was pushed back due to the pandemic, and now begins July 31, 2021, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The tour concludes on Oct. 3 in Hollywood, Florida, with a two-night stint at the Hard Rock Live Arena. There are currently a total of 25 […]
“The worst year of my life concludes with the best album of my life,” Morrissey said, pulling no punches in the announcement of his new album, Bonfire of the Teenagers. Moz announced the 11-track LP on his website, saying that the record had been completed in Los Angeles with no release date set. The reason why there’s no […]
A pair of classic comedy albums from a revolutionary standup, a previously unreleased live recording from one of Germany’s most influential bands, a new collection honoring a post-disco R&B queen and the “Ultimate” edition of a John Lennon masterpiece are just a few of the archival gold hitting retail this Spring. But first, we dive […]
Smashing Pumpkins’ debut album Gish turned 30 this week, and to celebrate the band announced its first archival release: Live in Japan, 1992. The limited edition live album will be released as a double LP on purple swirl, 180g vinyl. “Audio is from a board tape and is not available anywhere else,” the band wrote on Instagram. The […]
Temple of the Dog’s “Hunger Strike” is one of those songs most musicians are scared to cover because the original is pretty much perfect, but in a bold and unexpected move, Daughtry and Sevendust singer Lajon Witherspoon took it on. Witherspoon has paid tribute to Cornell in the past when Sevendust covered Soundgarden’s “The Day […]
A former girlfriend of Marilyn Manson has come forward with a lawsuit alleging that the musician, born Brian Warner, raped and threatened to kill her, TMZ reports. The unidentified woman, who began dating Warner in 2011, also claims he made her watch a disturbing video called “Groupie” that shows him tying a young fan to […]
Making out is timeless — kisses rev up the romantic mood and stir the spirit, if not the loins. Make-out songs contain multitudes too, like the one playing when you sync with that special someone, or the tune that nano-second sucks you right back to high school when you held your teenage crush in a […]
This week’s edition of 15 Minute Live Performances (watch our previous 15 Minute Live Performances set from rising star UPSAHL here) features Canadian singer-songwriter and a nominee for the prestigious JUNO Awards (Canada’s biggest music prize), KANDLE. We previously featured KANDLE as part of our ongoing A Day in The Life Of… feature and today, to coincide […]
This article was originally published in the December 1991 issue of SPIN. Smashing Pumpkins were one of our Artist of the Year runner-ups. In honor of Gish turning 30, we’re republishing this article. With its simultaneously childlike and ferocious debut album, gish (Caroline Records), the Chicago-based hard-soft psychedelia foursome Smashing Pumpkins exploded onto the 1991 indie-rock landscape with all […]