R.E.M. will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its classic, five-song debut EP, Chronic Town, by releasing it as a standalone CD for the first time in the U.S. on Aug. 19 via I.R.S./UMe. Augmented by extensive new liner notes from original producer Mitch Easter, the project will also be available on picture disc vinyl and […]
Members of beloved emo-leaning groups Christie Front Drive, Mineral, Boys Life have reassembled in the new band Suburban Eyes and have released their first song together, “Uncomplicated Lives.” The project features Eric Richter (Christie Front Drive, Antarctica), Jeremy Gomez (Mineral, The Gloria Record) and John Anderson (Boys Life), who knew each other through the underground […]
In the early evenings of late January 1991, after local news and Wheel of Fortune, the majority of American families tuned in to CNN’s coverage of Operation Desert Storm, the first ever real-time, front line broadcasts in the history of combat. This was groundbreaking stuff, honest-to-goodness live war, featuring play-by-play from on-site reporters and color […]
Last month, Depeche Mode co-founder and keyboardist Andy Fletcher died at the age of 60. At the time, no cause of death was revealed. On Monday, Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore and Dave Gahan shared a statement on their Instagram account about Fletcher’s death. In it, they said that Fletcher “suffered an aortic dissection while at […]
This week on SPIN Presents Lipps Service, host Scott Lipps sat down with the actor and musician Michael C. Hall. The frontman of Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum was accompanied by his bandmates Peter Yanowitz and Matt Katz-Bohen. Hall had a lot to share pertaining to his music career, like the time he sang […]
Pearl Jam is prepping a vinyl “tour edition” of its 2020 album Gigaton augmented with an extra CD featuring live versions of 11 of the 12 songs from the project. The new package will be released July 8 exclusively at independent record stores, although members of Pearl Jam’s Ten Club fan organization will have first […]
Rina Sawayama has been performing the previously unreleased “Catch Me in the Air” at her recent shows, but today, she officially shared the track alongside its own fan-submitted footage visualizer. [embedded content][embedded content] The song is the second one Sawayama has released from her forthcoming sophomore release, Hold the Girl, which is due Sept. 2 […]
During the second half of the 20th century, Washington, D.C.’s K St. had been hijacked by the lobbying industry. As such, a walk down K today might conjure up ideas of sharks in suits swimming around the Capitol, baiting the halls of Congress with money. But in between 12th and 13th St., something different has […]
The Flaming Lips, The Roots, Haim, and Khruangbin are among the artists confirmed for The Big Climate Thing, a new three-day festival taking place Sept. 16-18 at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium just outside Manhattan. Sheryl Crow, Gary Clark Jr., Courtney Barnett, and Princess Nokia are also on the bill for the event, which is dubbed […]
Leave it to Kanye West to upstage pretty much any major music industry event, which he did again last night (June 26) during a Lifetime Achievement award presentation for Sean “Diddy” Combs. West delivered an unannounced five-plus-minute speech at the show while wearing a heavy leather jacket, baseball cap, sunglasses and a black mask covering […]