Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Composer and arranger Boris “Lalo” Schifrin died in June at the age of 93, leaving behind a remarkable body of work. Schifrin was born in Argentina, studied music at a conservatory in […]
Primus pulled in an eclectic list of surprise guests for its show last night (Aug. 6) at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre, welcoming Tool drummer Danny Carey and bassist Justin Chancellor, opening act Ty Segall, South Park co-creator Matt Stone, comedian Bill Burr and bass virtuoso MonoNeon onstage at various points. Chancellor and Burr (on drums) […]
Orchid in the Ivy’s punk rock cover of the Midnight Oil classic “Beds Are Burning” could not have come at a better time, in light of ongoing global dynamics, despite coming nearly four decades after the original. “The song explores the challenges Aboriginal Australians have faced, including the loss of land linked to developments such […]
“Now I think you can stay there. It’s like an Airbnb now,” says filmmaker Amy Berg about the now-famous house where musician Jeff Buckley lived during his three-month stay in Memphis, the city he retreated to after the release of Grace to work on his second album, My Sweetheart the Drunk. Buckley’s time there was […]
Netflix syndrome. Most of us suffer from it, even if we’ve never heard of it. It’s the phenomenon of spending massive amounts of time scrolling through online content, trying to choose what you want to watch. But rather than making a decision, you become frustrated and overwhelmed, settling on watching something you don’t really want […]
One evening in the spring of 1985, as we were preparing our second issue (having, initially, seriously, forgotten we had to do that, so were now scrambling), I walked into Art Director George DuBois’s office and he was talking to a skinny, fresh-faced young man. “Look at these,” said George, handing me some paintings. I […]
Now Hear This is a monthly A&R column that provides you with exciting new sounds we discovered through the innovative new music platform Groover. Each month, you can expect a varied bouillabaisse of songs from a vast spectrum of artists from all over the globe, regardless of genre or geography. Photo Courtesy of Hog Ryder […]
In 1953, renowned author and notorious drug experimentalist William S. Burroughs made a trip to the Amazon rainforest on a quest for yagé, a name for the plant Banisteriopsis caapi, also known as ayahuasca. “This is not the chemical lift of C, the sexless horribly sane stasis of junk, the vegetable nightmare of peyote, or […]
Lady Gaga (12), Bruno Mars (11) and Kendrick Lamar (10) lead the nominees for the 2025 edition of the MTV Video Music Awards, which will air live for the first time on CBS on Sept. 7 from UBS Arena just outside Manhattan. The show will also be simulcast on MTV and stream on Paramount+ in […]
Ozzy Osbourne died last month of a heart attack and was also suffering with coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s, per the rock legend’s death certificate. Osbourne passed away July 22 in London at the age of 76, just 17 days after completing his final live performances with Black Sabbath and his solo band. According to […]