Longtime the Cure guitarist/keyboardist Perry Bamonte, who played on such iconic albums as 1992’s Wish and was onstage with the U.K. band for nearly 500 shows over the past 35 years, has died at the age of 65 after a short illness. A London native, the left-handed player had a brief stint working in a […]
Name Rome Ramirez Best known for Writing and performing songs that make people want to be outside in the water. Current city Nashville. Really want to be in I really want to go to Italy. I just want to eat all day and walk around and touch walls. Excited about Extremely excited about this album I’m working on and putting out more […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Stereophonic sound was all the rage in the second half of the ’60s, but nobody really knew if it would be the future of the music industry or a brief fad. Even […]
On a Friday night at Berlin’s famed Metropol, the two surviving members of David Bowie’s Black American three-man backing rhythm section take the stage. Guitarist Carlos Alomar and bass player George Murray are missing their old percussionist comrade, the late, great Dennis Davis, but are tonight rounded out by a full band. It’s November 7 […]
The two artists at the center of VOWWS came to their death-pop sound naturally. It can be heard in the music on the band’s new album, I’ll fill your house with an army, as it travels through layers of shadow and melody, anguish, and euphoria. Just don’t call it goth. “We’re not really big goth […]
For his work as film composer for The Testament of Ann Lee, Daniel Blumberg went back in time. The film is a vibrant musical drama starring Amanda Seyfried as the 18th-century ecstatic religious leader who founded the Shakers, and the music was built from the organic sounds of human voices and the percussion of clapping […]
It’s never easy for independent artists to reach fans and build a career in today’s competitive music industry. But platforms like TuneCore allow musicians to self-release their work to every streaming service without the help of a label, and every year some of the most talented and driven DIY acts break through on their own […]
Robert Glasper closed out a week of shows at the new Blue Note Jazz Club in Los Angeles last night (Dec. 21) by welcoming Stevie Wonder for a guest appearance on the latter’s classic song “Golden Lady.” See a clip below. The artists have been friends and collaborators for many years, with Wonder contributing harmonica […]
Gracie Abrams, The National’s Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon have teamed for the single “Sold Out,” which they released today (Dec. 22) exclusively on Bandcamp. The song was written following a 2024 school shooting but the artists opted to put it out now following several recent, tragic gun-related incidents. “We made this song […]
The War on Drugs celebrated their annual Drugcember to Remember residency at Philadelphia club Johnny Brenda’s last week by welcoming special guests Joe Walsh, the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, Real Estate’s Martin Courtney and founding member Kurt Vile at various points throughout. On Dec. 20, Vile was part of a War on Drugs throwback by […]