After high-profile team-ups with Joni Mitchell and Elton John, Brandi Carlile is going back to her own music on the new album Returning to Myself, which will be released Oct. 24 by Interscope/Lost Highway. The title track is out now, accompanied by a video from director Floria Sigismondi. Returning to Myself was produced by Carlile […]
When Ron Flynt began writing “Back to California,” the jangly title track and lead single of the first 20/20 album in twenty-seven years, he had no idea that the line “Not everybody wants to burn it down” would eventually be heard against the backdrop of the January L.A. wildfires. “Honestly, I thought that was a […]
Prior to meeting Mat Osman of Suede some three decades ago, I had already heard many positive things about him from colleagues who’d interviewed the bassist. We crossed paths on February 2, 1995, after Suede’s landmark show at the American Legion Hall in Los Angeles. He was approachable, warm, and inclusive. I gave him a […]
“Yeah, trumpet’s a motherfucker,” Theo Croker says with a chuckle when I express amazement at the range of sounds a skilled musician can get out of an instrument with just three valves. “Y’know, the pitch of the notes is determined by the shape of the aperture, which is the hole that you create with the […]
Updating a story first posted yesterday (Sept. 2), Radiohead will play four-night runs in five European cities this winter, their first since 2018. The group will visit Madrid, Bologna, Copenhagen, Berlin and London as part of the itinerary, tickets for which can be obtained here. “Last year, we got together to rehearse, just for the […]
Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born in Barbados in 1988, the daughter of an accountant and a warehouse supervisor. But when American producer Evan Rogers discovered Rihanna and brought the teen singer to the attention of Jay-Z, then president and CEO of Def Jam Recordings, she began a rapid ascent to multiplatinum success. Rihanna’s 2005 single […]
As I greet Bryan Adams on our phone call, he’s surprised that SPIN is doing a feature on him. “I didn’t know that SPIN was a big fan,” he says, as he heads to Italy to continue his world tour supporting his new album, Roll With the Punches. I’m confused and ask him to elaborate. […]
On May 21, 1998, I saw Garbage at what used to be The Palace in Hollywood. I wasn’t there for Garbage—I came for the opener, bizarrely, Talvin Singh—but I left singing Garbage songs. I knew all the singles. How could you not in the ’90s, when their music was everywhere? Even more than the songs […]
Smack dab in the middle of the final decade before the millennium—when some truly believed the world would end—chaos and catastrophe marked a year of strong attempts towards peace and world change. The O.J. Simpson murder trial began in January, 1995. The Oklahoma City Bombing took the lives of 168 people in April. The Srebrenica […]
My Chemical Romance has covered Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 rock radio staple “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” on a handful of occasions during its massive summer tour, but the rendition tonight (Aug. 29) at Chicago’s Soldier Field had extra bite. The group welcomed Pumpkins frontman and Windy City native Billy Corgan to guest on the tune, which […]