Wolfgang Van Halen chewed out the upcoming episode about his father, Eddie Van Halen, whose death is the subject of a new episode of the show Autopsy on Reelz Channel. The Autopsy: The Last Days of Eddie Van Halen, in which the Van Halen family had no part in its production, examines Van Halen’s long battle […]
In this new series, musicians open up about the issues that are important to them and their community. I spent my twenties on tour. And for the last few years, my band Summer Cannibals and I were consistently spending more time on the road than at home. Over the course of a decade I missed […]
The Mountain Goats have announced their forthcoming record, Bleed Out, which is due Aug. 19. The band just released the gleeful “Training Montage” video, where we see a funny montage that starts with the band throwing axes and skateboarding backstage. [embedded content][embedded content] Before performing onstage, they took comical clips of themselves running around venues and […]
Nikki Lane has been keeping busy the last few years with various music collaborations. For the first time in five years, Lane is slated to release what marks her fourth studio album, Denim & Diamonds, which is out Sept. 23. With the announcement, Lane just shared the video for it’s lead single, “First High.” [embedded content][embedded content] […]
Birmingham-based experimental dubstep producer Black Carl! has been taking his signature high-energy sets to a national scale, performing at Infrasound Festival, Sol Fest, Okeechobee Festival, Imagine Festival, Culture Downtown Music Festival, and more. While on the road, he’s been collaborating with an array of artists, namely Of the Trees, Sumthin Sumthin, player dave, Rusko and […]
Music is a powerful key to pieces of our minds and hearts that might succumb to cobwebs and rotting wood otherwise. Music threads thought and understanding into the fabric of emotional comprehension, allowing us to feel magnified to limitless degrees, potentially, everything. It is wondrous to allow abstraction to help us articulate emotion, perceive it, […]
The Band Camino, flor and Hastings spent some time on the road together earlier this year, and boy did they get to know each other. The first leg of the tour might be over, but the friendships formed between the bands will continue for a lifetime. Thus, for the latest edition of Artist x Artist, […]
This week on SPIN Presents Lipps Service, host Scott Lipps sat down with The Lumineers‘ Wesley Schultz. In their conversation, the singer/guitarist traced the band’s origins, sharing how they came up with the band’s name, how playing the open mic circuit lead to their discovery and what it’s like to open for artists like Tom […]
Maggie Rogers‘ upcoming record Surrender is out on July 29. Following the release of its first single, Rogers just shared the video for another one of its tracks, “Want Want.” [embedded content][embedded content] The “Want Want” video was filmed at a New York Koreatown karaoke bar. Directed by Warren Fu, who also helped in directing […]
Pinkshift, which SPIN previously deemed “2020’s perfect antidote of pop-punk angst,” just released their first single, “Nothing (In My Head),” with new label Hopeless Records. The Baltimore-based rockers are following their critically acclaimed 2021 Saccharine EP. “Nothing (In My Head)” swirls with 90s grunge and 2000s pop-punk inspirations for a song about a cry for help. “It’s about […]