As part of our 35th anniversary, we’re naming the most influential artists of the past 35 years. Today, we’re at #16. From Virginia Beach, Virginia, here are the Neptunes. CREDIT: Johnny Nunez / Contributor Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams have been popular music’s phone-a-friend since the turn of the century. Ever since they first linked […]
Radiohead has issued a statement regarding the recent hearing of Domenic Cugliari — the engineer responsible for approving the stage that eventually collapsed during a Radiohead concert and killed Scott Johnson, the band’s drum tech, as well as injuring three other people. The concert took place on June 16, 2012 at Toronto’s Downsview Park. As previously […]
What a beautiful day to discover more music, don’t you agree? We’re back with another week of Daybreaker madness and I must say, we have quite the zestful lineup coming your way. Get ready to dive deep into the realms of psychedelic, indie rock, and conceptual greatness. This curation of artists have a knack for […]
Although Tool and Puscifer singer Maynard James Keenan battled with COVID-19 earlier this year, facing lingering symptoms for months, it hasn’t seemed to slow his prolific musical output, which now includes Puscifer’s new video for “Fake Affront.” The song is off the recently digitally released Existential Reckoning album, which was released on Oct. 30, but due to COVID-19 related […]
When the U.S. went into an economic shutdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 earlier this year, Shawna Shawnté — an Oakland musician and community organizer now based in Avondale, Arizona — didn’t take it seriously or believe it would affect the underground DIY music scene. “I — like everyone at the beginning — was […]
Make sure you tune in at 4pm PT / 7pm ET for Chris Malinchak’s piano-based concert today on SPIN’s Untitled Twitch Stream, as that caps off a great week for the stream. After that, you can re-watch all of the week’s streams on Twitch while you look forward to a shortened (but busy) holiday week for the […]
Most celebrity interviews I’ve conducted usually included the runaround from publicists of their client’s ultra-small window of availability. When it came to interviewing Common, he quickly was on board to speak with me, but then the scheduling conflicts arose. For weeks, I went back and forth with his publicist over scheduling a telephonic, and every […]
For the better part of the decade, when he wasn’t battling aging trolls about his lineage online, Wolfgang Van Halen was carefully crafting his own material outside the band that bore his famous last name. Going deeper into the family business, he decided to use the moniker Mammoth WVH — combining his own initials with a nod […]
Fiona Apple dropped a new video for “Shameika” off Fetch the Bolt Cutters, along with a remix of the track featuring the song’s real-life inspiration, Shameika Stepney. Directed by Matthias Brown, Apple’s “Shameika” video is a continuous black and white animation focused on a pair of lips that run across the screen. It directs viewers to listen […]
With the Foo Fighters’ Medicine at Midnight releasing in a few months, the lineup has been making the media rounds. stopping by A Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night (Nov. 19). Before performing their latest single, “Shame Shame,” Dave Grohl chatted with Stephen Colbert about the band’s now-defunct plans to celebrate their 25th anniversary. […]