Updating a story first posted yesterday (Sept. 2), Radiohead will play four-night runs in five European cities this winter, their first since 2018. The group will visit Madrid, Bologna, Copenhagen, Berlin and London as part of the itinerary, tickets for which can be obtained here. “Last year, we got together to rehearse, just for the […]
Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born in Barbados in 1988, the daughter of an accountant and a warehouse supervisor. But when American producer Evan Rogers discovered Rihanna and brought the teen singer to the attention of Jay-Z, then president and CEO of Def Jam Recordings, she began a rapid ascent to multiplatinum success. Rihanna’s 2005 single […]
As I greet Bryan Adams on our phone call, he’s surprised that SPIN is doing a feature on him. “I didn’t know that SPIN was a big fan,” he says, as he heads to Italy to continue his world tour supporting his new album, Roll With the Punches. I’m confused and ask him to elaborate. […]
On May 21, 1998, I saw Garbage at what used to be The Palace in Hollywood. I wasn’t there for Garbage—I came for the opener, bizarrely, Talvin Singh—but I left singing Garbage songs. I knew all the singles. How could you not in the ’90s, when their music was everywhere? Even more than the songs […]
Smack dab in the middle of the final decade before the millennium—when some truly believed the world would end—chaos and catastrophe marked a year of strong attempts towards peace and world change. The O.J. Simpson murder trial began in January, 1995. The Oklahoma City Bombing took the lives of 168 people in April. The Srebrenica […]
My Chemical Romance has covered Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 rock radio staple “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” on a handful of occasions during its massive summer tour, but the rendition tonight (Aug. 29) at Chicago’s Soldier Field had extra bite. The group welcomed Pumpkins frontman and Windy City native Billy Corgan to guest on the tune, which […]
Amid their first tour since 2017, Alabama Shakes have released “Another Life,” their first new song in more than a decade. The track precedes their debut album for new label Island Records, a release date for which has yet to be announced. “Another Life,” which the band has been playing live on its current tour, […]
Amazon MGM Studios has acquired the long-in-the-works, Morgan Neville-directed Paul McCartney documentary Man on the Run and will release the film Feb. 25, 2026, on Prime Video and in select theaters on a date yet to be announced. Man on the Run is premiering this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. As previously […]
Name Tom Johnston Best known for Being a singer, guitar player, songwriter for the Doobie Brothers. Current city Marin County, north of San Francisco a little bit. Really want to be in Dublin, that’s a great town. I really like Dublin. Excited about Our new album, Walk This Road. We’re starting the U.S. version of touring on that right now. We’ve been over in […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. “This is a song some of you have probably never heard…most of you,” Jeff Buckley told his audience during a July 1995 performance in France, introducing “What Will You Say”—a haunting midtempo […]