Johnny Blue Skies, the current nom de plume of the singer formerly known as Sturgill Simpson, is eyeing a March 13 release for his second studio album and first with his band the Dark Clouds, Mutiny After Midnight. The project will be released only on vinyl, CD and cassette by High Top Mountain Records/Atlantic Outpost. […]
Across 30-plus years of existence, the four-headed plasma ball of Converge have continuously elevated the metalcore genre to altitude-sickness levels. It’s important to acknowledge that the band has never betrayed their audience. The acclaimed collaboration with the opaque Chelsea Wolfe (2021’s Bloodmoon 1) had them accessing new listeners in a whole new context, but don’t […]
New York metal vets Life of Agony turned heads by including a cover of ’80s Breakfast Club soundtrack staple “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” on their 1995 album Ugly, but had never played the Simple Minds-popularized song live until last year. Below, SPIN premieres an in-concert clip of “Don’t You” recorded in Europe and directed […]
What an interesting week for content. Beyond the Benito Bowl–where the shared emotion of the performance and watching it live together felt like the biggest play of the game, everything else was… kind of meh? Until after the game, that is. That’s when it actually got interesting. The commentary. The memes. The coded explanations. The […]
Name Harper Simon Best known for Nobody knows anything about me! That’s why I’m so excited to do this interview with Liza Lentini for SPIN! Fun fact: I own a fur storage facility in Ronkonkoma, Long Island and play alto sax in a Henry Mancini tribute band! Current city Los Angeles Really want to be in Siwa Oasis in […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Music critics have a habit of tearing down idols as soon as they’ve built them up, and some great sophomore albums have become collateral damage in that process. Patti Smith was anointed […]
Swedish singer Lykke Li is back tonight (Feb. 13) with the new single “Lucky Again,” which presages the May 8 release of her first album in four years, The Afterparty (Neon Gold/Futures✦). The nine-song, 24-minute project was written in Los Angeles and recorded in Stockholm with a 17-piece string orchestra and what’s said to be […]
Real-time online music sessions are here, and they’re starting to have an impact. Musicians of all levels are flocking towards the efficient proposition of doing much of their work online. Music lessons, group rehearsals, onboarding new band members, and even entire band reunions are taking place entirely online using technology that makes it feel like […]
Dijon, Daniel Caesar, Lil Yachty and Aimee Mann are atop the bill for the returning Eaux Claires, the festival founded by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and the National’s Aaron Dessner that initially ran from 2015-2018. As previously reported, this year’s edition is set for July 24-25 at the 2,856-capacity Carson Park in Vernon’s hometown of […]
The next great breakout act might not come from a label pipeline. It could come straight from the fans. Which is why SPIN has joined forces with artist-support platform Tipify to launch Road to Austin, a new discovery program spotlighting independent and emerging musicians. The multi-week initiative will culminate in a live SPIN x Tipify […]