Janet Damita Jo Jackson was the youngest of Joe and Katherine Jackson’s 10 children, and her older brothers had already begun to perform as The Jackson 5 by the time she was born in 1966. As the Gary, Indiana, siblings became America’s favorite family band, Janet started to get a taste of the spotlight at […]
A move to a warmer climate didn’t push the gloom away for Blackwater Holylight. The former Portland, Oregon band may have decamped to Los Angeles in 2021 after releasing their third album Silence/Motion to escape the region’s dreary winters, but their new record Not Here Not Gone continues the band’s dark explorations. It is also […]
Bad Bunny took him Album of the Year honors — the first ever for a Latin artist — for Debí Tirar Más Fotos to cap an entertaining and outspoken night at the 68th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The Puerto Rican superstar gave an impassioned speech against recent ICE immigration raids earlier in the evening, […]
Some 50 years into their storied career, Robert Smith and the Cure have won their first Grammys ever during the Premiere Ceremony of the 2026 event today (Feb. 1) in Los Angeles. The group took home Best Alternative Music Album for its first full-length in 16 years, 2024’s Songs of a Lost World, and Best […]
Bruce Springsteen made a surprise appearance this afternoon (Jan. 30) in Minneapolis during a Tom Morello-organized daytime benefit concert for the families of slain protestors Renee Good and Alex Pretti, during which he live debuted his just-released protest song, “Streets of Minneapolis,” and then dusted off his 1995 track “The Ghost of Tom Joad” for […]
Netflix will explore the early period of the Red Hot Chili Peppers career in the aptly named documentary The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which will premiere March 20. Per Variety, the film will focus on the formative role of original guitarist Hillel Slovak, who died of a drug overdose in 1988. The […]
It was an era where musical genres and defiance merged into the distinct sound of a decade, not simply a genre. In the 90’s, culture was defined by musicians who produced a long-lasting tidal wave of reform. Bands like Rage Against the Machine and TOOL shaped the politics and art of the day, while fashion […]
Name Chris Cester, Lead Singer of LA-based band Mystic Knights. Best known for The handsome and often misinterpreted drummer for Aussie Rock Band Jet Current city Los Angeles, California. Really want to be in I would move to Kauai in a second, I miss the wild weather and rain, you just see it coming over the water, like that […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Morrissey was an obsessive music lover before he was a rock star, starting a Sparks fan club as a teenager and writing many letters to the editor that were published in British […]
Thundercat will roar back on April 3 with his fifth album, Distracted, which will arrive exactly six years since its predecessor, It Is What It Is. The Greg Kurstin-produced project is led by first single “I Did This to Myself,” which features Lil Yachty. Other high profile guests on the Brainfeeder album include A$AP Rocky, […]