For those of you who follow us Twitch, you may have noticed that we’ve been a bit quiet in the recent weeks — and no, it wasn’t just an extended holiday hangover. Starting next week, SPIN is back and better than ever with a slew of new weekly content. While we’ll have more to announce in the […]
Paramore singer Hayley Williams has proven herself a prolific solo artist, dropping her debut album Petals For Armor in May 2020, and now announcing a brand-new sophomore solo LP, titled FLOWERS for VASES / descansos, arriving Feb. 5. Her social post offered no insight to what the record might contain, though the Spanish word “descanso” is a […]
Musician, author and multi-disciplinary artist Kim Gordon released a video for her song “Hungry Baby,” directed by Clara Balzary and starring Coco Gordon-Moore. The song is from the Sonic Youth bassist’s solo debut album, No Home Record, which was released in 2019 on Matador Records. Photographer/filmmaker Balzary is the daughter of Red Hot Chili Peppers […]
Five Years is our new series that takes a look at significant cultural figures five years after their death. We’re kicking it off with a tribute to Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire by David Gomez, the bassist for the L.A.-based queer-core punk band Longstocking. My sister, Irene, was the oldest of four siblings […]
If you’ve been longing for more Vampire Weekend since 2019’s Father of the Bride, you’re in luck (kind of). The indie rockers who still don’t give a fuck about an Oxford comma commissioned two artists to create new versions of “2021” less than two full years after the song’s release. Jazz saxophonist Sam Gendel and rock […]
After 25 years—and 10 big ol’ rock albums—the only concerning factor regarding new Foo Fighters material should be this: How will it play live? Can the skyscraping choruses be sung by 40,000 fans at Dodger Stadium — even those who haven’t picked up a new Foos record since 2005? Is there space for Dave Grohl, […]
It was only a matter of weeks ago that FINNEAS released his holiday song, “Another Year” and a few months since he dropped the politically charged “Where the Poison Is”, but the prolific artist and producer is back with another original piece in “American Cliché.” The thoughtful track about lost love and European coffee shops […]
Following Evan Rachel Wood and multiple additional women’s accusations of abuse by Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor has released a new statement obtained by Pitchfork denouncing his former friend and collaborator. In the statement, Reznor says that he hasn’t been friends with Manson in nearly 25 years. The statement comes after a story from Manson’s 1998 autobiography, The Long […]
On Tuesday night, footage surfaced of rising country music star Morgan Wallen using the N-word with his friends after a night out in Nashville. The footage, which was shot on Sunday night and published by TMZ, sees him drunkenly shouting the word with a group of friends, and was captured by a neighbor. The fallout to […]
While virtual reality gaming may not be as prevalent as its flat-screen counterpart quite yet, titles like The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners prove why the future of the medium is important for all gamers. Among the numerous games in which players battle their way through wave after wave of the zombie apocalypse, no release […]