The indie-punkers in Mannequin Pussy are back with a follow-up to 2019’s Patience, and by the sound of the new EP’s first song, they’re picking up right where they left off. The five-song venture is titled Perfect and set to release via Epitaph on May 21, and it figures to be a major release for an excellent […]
Last year, the Hollywood outpost of Amoeba Music announced that it was in the process of moving, which came with a Tyler, the Creator-hosted video showcasing the legendary record store’s new venue. Then COVID hit and Amoeba was forced to shutter its existing location on the Sunset Strip and fully begin the move. <!– // […]
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since legendary singer-songwriter John Prine died from COVID complications. But the singer-songwriter continues to get the accolades he deserves, not only by winning two Grammys last week, but also having one of his most memorable shows set to be released. Prine’s set at the 2017 Newport […]
While a sponsor — who Ted Nugent won’t name — pulled out of his Spirit of the Wild TV show over accusations of racism, Nugent says that he’s not a racist. Speaking on Facebook Live over the weekend, citing his history with and reverence for the Black heroes of music, Nugent said that being called […]
We were living the life in New York; I, slowly writing poems while my girlfriend, Diane Scanlon, played the clubs as a singer-songwriter. In 1993 a midtown publishing company executive turned off Diane’s tape in the middle of one of her newest songs and, shaking his head, passed. As she went down the elevator she […]
As the warm weather begins to arrive and vaccines become more readily available, fresh hope for live music arises with it. On Saturday (March 20) Perry Farrell shared a video of himself where he wrote, after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine, “My heart smiled a little more this morning. We’re growing closer.” While Farrell made the […]
Born in 1970, Phife Dawg grew up Malik Taylor writing poems and rapping around his native Queens, New York neighborhood before forming A Tribe Called Quest in 1985 with childhood friends Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. Nicknamed “The Five-Foot Assassin,” or just “The Five-Footer” for his stature, Phife’s persona was both larger than life and […]
Fashion designer Jun Takahashi showcased his UNDERCOVER Fall 2021 collection “Creep Very” during Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo and gave its womenswear portion quite the fitting soundtrack: a haunting remix of Radiohead’s “Creep,” orchestrated by Thom Yorke himself. The sparse track features acoustic guitar and glitchy electronics and clocks in at around nine minutes. “The theme is of a […]
This article originally appeared in the November 1993 issue of SPIN. On Long Island, where I live, Howard Stern is God. Lord and master of the airwaves, ruler of the turnpikes and expressways. All my friends are obsessive Howard fans, fanatics who listen to his radio show, watch him on cable, collect all his tapes […]
Well, that was fast. A day after the release of Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Lana Del Rey has another release ready to roll. In an Instagram post (which you can see below), the singer-songwriter announced that more music is on the way. Titled Rock Candy Sweet, Del Rey says that it’s due out on June 1. […]