As expected, Foo Fighters will release their 12th studio album ahead of a summer stadium tour, with Your Favorite Toy set to arrive April 24 through Roswell/RCA. The title cut is available now; a number of other new song snippets already appeared on the band’s web site, which in recent days was redesigned to depict […]
Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, the humans behind virtual group Gorillaz, don’t view death as the end, but as an excuse for a hell of a wake. Never ones for a morbid affair, they celebrate numerous collaborators on The Mountain (Kong) who have since passed on, including the Fall’s Mark E. Smith, De La Soul’s […]
Beloved singer/songwriter Jesse Malin on Wednesday (Feb. 18) kicked off the second incarnation of Silver Manhattan, the Broadway-inspired show about his life and career that delves into the freak spinal stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down in 2023. The show traces how a music-loving kid from Queens navigated the New York hardcore […]
“Honestly, this is one of the best interviews I’ve ever had.” Wohdee, who hails from the working class city of Birmingham, England, radiates warmth, smiles easily and is intentional with her answers. There’s no indication, at least not on Zoom, that she’s a beast on the mic. The rapper is on an upward trajectory, having […]
The Bandcamp page of L.A.-based Sedona mentions two new genres you might want to check out: myth rock and hair-salon pop. “I’ve also been calling it ‘pageant rock,’” she says. “It’s kind of been my fave right now.” The “it” that Sedona has been calling pageant rock is the music she has been writing and […]
U2 is roaring back with the surprise release today (Feb. 18) of Days of Ash, a six-track Interscope EP that will presage a separate new studio album in late 2026. It is described as “an immediate response to current events and inspired by the many extraordinary and courageous people fighting on the frontlines of freedom.” […]
Foo Fighters, Mumford & Sons, Chris Stapleton and Dave Matthews Band will anchor the 2026 edition of Bourbon & Beyond on Sept. 24-27 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Ky. The top of the bill also features Queens of the Stone Age, Goose, Kacey Musgraves, Foster the People, the Red Clay Strays, Jason Isbell […]
As expected, American Football has confirmed its fourth studio album, LP4, which will be released May 1 on Polyvinyl Records. For now, there’s no additional information about the long-awaited follow-up to 2019’s LP3, although the group recently posted a video on Instagram showing members Steve Lamos and Nate Kinsella working through what appears to be […]
Gogol Bordello celebrated the drop date of their new album ‘We Mean It, Man!’ with a full-tilt blow-out of a record release party in downtown NYC last Friday (February 13th). Spin aligned with the band’s Casa Gogol Records at Silver Lining Lounge for the sweat-soaked affair, which felt less like an industry party and more […]
Paul McCartney will reveal “the most extensive collection” of items from his personal archive for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s upcoming exhibit Paul McCartney and Wings, which will open on May 15. The news comes in tandem with the impending release of Morgan Neville’s Wings documentary, Man on the Run, which premieres Feb. […]