This article originally appeared in the July 1992 issue of SPIN. In honor of Achtung Baby turning 30, we’re republishing it here. “What you can never get in your book is the utter, total boredom of being in a band [on tour].” —John Lydon, quoted in Jon Savage’s England’s Dreaming April 9, 1992: Rolling through the sun-scrubbed Arizona […]
Just when you think Taylor Swift‘s “All Too Well” couldn’t get any sadder, it just did. The song, which appears on the recently released Red (Taylor’s Version), has yet another version. In a post on her social media accounts on Wednesday afternoon, Swift shared “All Too Well (Sad Girl Autumn Version).” The song was recorded […]
Adolph Robert Thornton Jr., professionally known as Young Dolph died in Memphis, Tennessee after being shot, three independent law enforcement services confirmed to FOX13. The shooting occurred at Makeda’s Butter Cookies, and its owner, Maurice Hill, told FOX13 his employees said Young Dolph walked in to purchase cookies. When the rapper was inside, an unidentified […]
Rony Seikaly credits his teen years in Greece for his lifelong love of house music. “Greece is where I acquired a taste for house music as the evolution of disco,” he says. Though he’d been DJing since he was 14, he didn’t consider it a career back then. After a celebrated college career playing basketball […]
With some thorough digging through their archives this year, Aerosmith unearthed a previously unheard 1971 rehearsal recording. They just announced they are releasing the session as a record, Aerosmith — 1971: The Road Starts Hear, set to release on Record Store Day, November 26. As an early treat, the legendary band unveiled the record’s version of “Movin’ […]
Following his previously unheard remix release, Shooter Jennings just unveiled another new track “Leave Those Memories Alone.” “Leave Those Memories Alone” is Jennings cooking in his country roots, warning of the love powerful women can give: “Its time for you to go out and make some new memories of your own / You can dig […]
A recent open letter by the nonprofit Fight For The Future is urging music venues to halt the implementation of Amazon palm scanners and similar types of ID. Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello and Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna are two of many against the use of these new ticket and entry alternatives, which are […]
On March 31, 2016, times were simpler. Obama was president. Harambe was alive. Global pandemics were reserved for sci-fi movies. Things were generally going pretty well. To make things even better, that was the day when developer and creative director Alx Preston of Heart Machine released Hyper Light Drifter into the world. An acclaimed and […]
Just a month after the release of The Atlas Underground Fire, Tom Morello announced a forthcoming sister record The Atlas Underground Flood. The Rage Against the Machine co-founder has discussed in recent interviews about his various collaborations and song writing sessions that spruced from the pandemic, so a follow-up record truly displays Morello’s creativity surge in the […]
Like anyone else, Joy Crookes’ mind is built on memories. But her memories aren’t like anyone else’s. They’re vivid, hyper-specific down to the article of clothing she was wearing at the time, and detailed enough to let her hold on to those moments for just a little longer — sometimes even long enough to become […]