Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska has been getting a lot of attention lately, with the Scott Cooper-helmed biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere and Nebraska ‘82: Expanded Edition both released in October. In 1984, Springsteen released Born in the U.S.A., his first political album, a commentary on national identity, disillusionment, and patriotism through the eyes of Vietnam […]
Bassist Roger Waters and drummer Nick Mason began playing music together as teenagers while studying architecture at the London Polytechnic. By the end of 1965, they had been joined by keyboardist Richard Wright and singer/guitarist Syd Barrett. Barrett named the band Pink Floyd in homage to two favorite blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. […]
Name Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte of 3OH!3. Best known for Being one of two dudes who can’t really dance, sings just OK, used to be slightly handsome, but can still rock a fuckin’ party. — Nat Current city Los Angeles. — Sean Boulder, CO. — Nat Really want to be in Margeritaville. — Sean Anglet, […]
I bought my first copy of Let It Be when I was 15 and it unlocked my lifelong love of the Replacements. Soon I was hunting down albums, bootlegs, zines, T-shirts—I even agreed to clean my high school biology teacher’s snake and guinea pig tanks for several weeks to borrow his VHS tape of a […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Beyoncé got a prestigious co-sign from Prince early in her career, when they performed the opening medley together at the 2004 Grammys. The most Prince-influenced music of her career came later, though, […]
In business, growth is a continuous game. Where is the blue sky? Where is the next opportunity to put points on the board? One reliable answer to both questions is…sports! The sports industry as a whole is growing both horizontally and vertically. It’s an exciting time for fans. There are a lot of learnings for […]
Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist Gary “Mani” Mounfield has died at the age of 63, according to a social media post from his brother. No cause was provided. Mounfield’s bass work helped propel the Stone Roses out of the post-Smiths-era Manchester, England, several years before the Britpop revolution made superstars out of Oasis, Blur […]
Is this real life, or just fantasy? That’s the blurry line Charli xcx navigates in the trailer for her new film The Moment, in which she portrays a thinly veiled version of her arena-filling, pop star self. The movie will be released in theaters Jan. 26 by A24 and is the first from the artist’s […]
If you were to have asked late Sugar Hill Records co-founder Sylvia Robinson who helped put hip-hop—a genre traditionally dominated by men—on the map, she would have justifiably raised her hand. Robinson, who passed away in 2011, was largely responsible for hip-hop’s first Top 40 single, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugar Hill Gang (1979), as […]
This is a new ongoing series about the business of music with a SPIN twist. There’s a new headliner in the music business, and it’s not on stage. It’s in the wings, in a tailored suit, with a checkbook bigger than the tour budget. Over the last decade, the most unexpected disruptor in music hasn’t […]