Japanese Breakfast is paying tribute to its leader Michelle Zauner’s Korean heritage with the release today (July 20) of a Korean-language version of its track “Be Sweet.” The new recording features vocal contributions from So!YoON!, the frontperson of eclectic Korean band SE SO NEON. “Be Sweet” is a key track from Japanese Breakfast’s latest Dead […]
“We met in college at an art gallery. We were both booked to play the same event. I was there with a jazz trio playing mostly bossa-nova inspired music and Tuck was the DJ after me that night,” recalls Sophie Hawley-Weld of first meeting Tucker Halpern, the other half of SOFI TUKKER. “He came early […]
Most music is crap. But then again, as science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon once said, when asked why so much science fiction was garbage, 90% of everything is crap. So it’s only really news when a great musician or band puts out a turgid stinker. And they do. You don’t know if they know, or […]
Chance The Rapper and Vic Mensa are the leading the charge on the Black Star Line festival, a major music gathering to be held in Black Star Square in Accra, Ghana, on Jan. 6, 2023. The Chicago-based artists made the announcement over the weekend in front of Ghanian fashion collective Free the Youth’s flagship store. […]
After unveiling the single “The Chapeltown Rag” last year, Slipknot has confirmed their next album, The End, So Far, will be released Sept. 30 on Roadrunner. Another new track, the punishing “The Dying Song (Time to Sing),” is out now with a funhouse mirror-featuring video directed by band member M. Shawn Crahan (aka “Clown”). [embedded […]
On June 1, Lauren Denitzio of Brooklyn-based band Worriers tweeted “Ok, so when are we going to talk about the fact that the title of the new Sharon Van Etten record is a Sandlot reference.” Denitzio made a good point, so SPIN reached out to Van Etten to have that talk. That Sandlot reference, the […]
After postponing his summer North American tour in the wake of a diagnosis of Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which left one side of his face paralyzed, Justin Bieber is ready to return to the road. The singer will be back on stage July 31 in Lucca, Italy, and will play five previously scheduled European shows through […]
Epic rock albums such as The Who’s Who’s Next and Def Leppard’s Hysteria served as key inspiration for Titus Andronicus’ new project The Will to Live, which will arrive Sept. 30 from Merge Records. The veteran Glen Rock, N.J.-reared indie rock act recorded the album with producer Howard Bilerman in Montreal; rousing first single “(I’m) […]
Marcus Mumford‘s debut solo track, “Cannibal,” has received some very exclusive treatment for its accompanying video. How exclusive? The clip was directed by none other than Steven Spielberg — a first for the Academy Award-winning director. [embedded content][embedded content] Shot only on an iPhone, the video was created by just four people, who Mumford credited […]
Members of System of a Down have not been shy about admitting that recent creative differences have halted new recordings and releases by the band, but that doesn’t mean they can’t have fun together. Indeed, System of a Down singer Serj Tankian joined drummer John Dolmayan on stage to perform the band’s”Aerials” at the latter’s […]