Name Seán Griffin Best known for I’m best known for being the lead singer of the Ruffians and also that guy with a pile of kids. Current city Kingston, NY. Really want to be in I’m pretty happy here in the Hudson Valley, but I wouldn’t mind being in Galway city, and since we are dreaming I’d be turning […]
Pink Floyd are expanding their 1975 album Wish You Were Here for a 50th anniversary deluxe edition due Dec. 12 from Sony Music. The collection is led by six previously unreleased alternate versions and 16 live recordings sourced from a bootleg of an April 26, 1975, concert at Los Angeles Sports Arena. The first song […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The members of the Beatles were early champions of Harry Nilsson’s music, and the Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter’s early albums spun off massive chart hits like 1969’s “Everybody’s Talkin’” and 1971’s “Without You.” Over […]
Extending a New York-area tradition since 2017, LCD Soundsystem will be back in action this winter with another residency, this time comprising 12 shows across three weekends at Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Queens. Dates for the Bowery Presents-produced run begin Nov. 20 and conclude Dec. 13. Although the James Murphy-led group has previously anchored its […]
The kids are not all right, according to the internet. Gen Z, and I suppose now Gen Alpha, is/are experiencing anxiety and depression at unprecedented levels. Most of this is a reasonable reaction to the fact that we are inhabitants of a self-immolating rock hurtling towards extinction; and to the latest terrible news about (please […]
Gorillaz have gathered another highly eclectic cast of collaborators for their ninth album, The Mountain, which will be released March 20 on the Damon Albarn-led band’s new KONG label. Lead track “The Happy Dictator” features sibling pop auteurs Sparks and can be sampled below. Among the other artists lending a hand on the 15-track The […]
King Princess is ready to take the next step with fans: getting matching tattoos. On Sept. 13, one day after the release of her latest music manifesto, Girl Violence, the New York-based artist, aka KP aka Mikaela Straus, is hosting a global flash event in partnership with select women- and LGBTQ-led tattoo shops in the […]
From 1969 to 1979, a series of field recordings appeared on the Atlantic label under the title Environments. Song titles included “The Psychologically Ultimate Seashore” and “Dawn in New Hope, Pennsylvania” (which would have made a dynamite title for a Ween album), presenting painstakingly recorded sonic representations of places and the sound-worlds they produce. The […]
Following a triumphant six-date tour of sold-out North American stadiums, System of a Down will play seven more dates in Europe next summer, beginning June 29 in Stockholm. Queens of the Stone Age and Acid Bath will support through a July 18 finale in Warsaw. The Serj Tankian-led group is planning an additional special show […]
Rap duo Armand Hammer (billy wods and ELUCID) has teamed with producer the Alchemist for a new album, Mercy, which will be released Nov. 7 through Backwoodz Studioz and distributed by Rhmesayers Entertainment. Mercy is the follow-up to the artists’ 2021 album Haram, which included one song co-produced by Earl Sweatshirt. Woods also recently released […]