As part of our 35th anniversary, we’re naming the most influential artists of the past 35 years. Today, we’re at #9. From Long Island, New York, here are Public Enemy. CREDIT: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Formed around the nucleus of rappers Chuck D and Flava Flav, production collective the Bomb Squad and others, Public […]
We know, we know — the best concert of all-time is your friend’s obscure indie-punk band playing a sweaty neighborhood basement back in ‘94. We admit that one slipped through the cracks. Maybe it’s a fool’s errand, but this list is our attempt to narrow down three and a half decades of worthy live music events […]
“It was ALL erased,” Miley Cyrus wrote in a letter to fans last month, explaining how the 2018 wildfire that destroyed her Malibu home took with it her unreleased seventh album. The LP would have slotted in around a trilogy of EPs, the first of which, She Is Coming, dropped in May 2019. But Miley […]
Blue Chips is a monthly rap column that doubles as a scouting report. Each month, SPIN selects a new starting five, a group of rappers who could be Rookie of the Year candidates turned Hall-of-Famers or forgettable flashes in the pan. Only the passing seasons (and the number of streams) will tell. To read previous […]
Although this was a a bit of a short week on SPIN’s Untitled Twitch Stream due to the holiday, we’re back with a full barrage of live entertainment for your viewing pleasure next week. Aside from catching up on the last couple weeks of streaming while you finish your leftovers, Monday kicks things off with what’s sure […]
Now that Thanksgiving is over, Alanis Morissette is getting into the Christmas spirit by sharing her version of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).” The new version stays true to the original including the iconic Lennon-Ono bedroom scene. But in Morissette’s version, you see her cuddled up with her family. The […]
Van Morrison has teamed up with Eric Clapton on his latest anti-lockdown song, “Stand and Deliver.” Set to release on Dec. 4, the track’s proceeds will go toward Morrison’s Lockdown Financial Hardship Fund, which aims to assist musicians who are facing financial hardships because of the global pandemic and lockdown measures that followed. Morrison previously […]
Liam Gallagher has just released a new track — his first original music since 2019’s Why Me? Why Not. “All You’re Dreaming Of” is a beautiful piano ballad, classic and emotional, augmented with strings. The tune is Gallagher’s contribution to 2020’s holiday music rotation. [embedded content] “Considering the year that we’ve all had, I hope […]
George Harrison’s solo album, All Things Must Pass, will be celebrating its 50th anniversary next year. To honor it, Harrison’s estate is honoring the milestone with a new stereo mix of the title track. “The new stereo mix of the album’s title track is just a taste of more things to come in 2021 as […]
Coming off tour in late 2018, Meg Myers was depressed and disillusioned, feeling like she’d traded too much of herself in exchange for her two exhilarating LPs, 2015’s Sorry and 2018’s Take Me To The Disco. “I didn’t make a lot of my own choices,” the alt-rock songwriter tells SPIN. “Unconsciously, I allowed myself to […]