Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. On later Cure albums, Robert Smith’s songs started getting longer, and so did the instrumental intros, with the band frequently establishing a groove for a minute or two before Smith begins to […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Bob Dylan’s sixth album Highway 61 Revisited, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary, opens with the landmark single “Like a Rolling Stone.” The song that follows it on the album, “Tombstone Blues,” […]
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 […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Death Cab For Cutie’s fifth album Plans recently turned 20. The Seattle band’s major label debut was their first and only album to go platinum, powered by the radio hits “Soul Meets […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. “This is a song some of you have probably never heard…most of you,” Jeff Buckley told his audience during a July 1995 performance in France, introducing “What Will You Say”—a haunting midtempo […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. In the constantly shifting landscape of popular music, headliners and opening acts can trade places in the space of just a couple of years. In fact, that’s exactly what happened to a […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The duality of pleasure and pain, of comedy and tragedy, or of life’s highs and lows is fertile territory for songwriters. And John Mellencamp has created some great songs out of those […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Composer and arranger Boris “Lalo” Schifrin died in June at the age of 93, leaving behind a remarkable body of work. Schifrin was born in Argentina, studied music at a conservatory in […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The Pogues performing in Amsterdam on November 4, 1989. (Credit: Frans Schellekens/Redferns) Elvis Costello loved the Pogues in the 1980s. The band’s opinions of Costello, however, were mixed. Bassist Cait O’Riordan began […]