Here’s a thing that happened one day at SPIN back in the ’90s: we all went to the airport. I don’t remember how we got there, or if we arrived together, I don’t remember much at all except that we met at the airport. Huddled together outside one of the terminals at LaGuardia. By “we” […]
“Honestly, this is one of the best interviews I’ve ever had.” Wohdee, who hails from the working class city of Birmingham, England, radiates warmth, smiles easily and is intentional with her answers. There’s no indication, at least not on Zoom, that she’s a beast on the mic. The rapper is on an upward trajectory, having […]
The Bandcamp page of L.A.-based Sedona mentions two new genres you might want to check out: myth rock and hair-salon pop. “I’ve also been calling it ‘pageant rock,’” she says. “It’s kind of been my fave right now.” The “it” that Sedona has been calling pageant rock is the music she has been writing and […]
As the only son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Sean Ono Lennon bears great responsibility. He curates his late father’s work as a solo artist and as part of the Beatles’ (see this winter’s expanded Anthology collection) and has acted as his mother’s principle musical and activist collaborator, and defended her role as an […]
Sitting in his orange-tinted studio on the outskirts of London, Zak Starkey’s face is half-hidden behind a beautifully painted mug. His hair, however, is fully on display with a couple of deliberate cowlicks perched at the top. He knows he has a good haircut. He mentions it more than a few times, and it becomes […]
Merrill Nisker, professionally known as Peaches, is in what she calls her “backstage booties” at a venue in London’s Kentish Town neighborhood. She’s here to perform “Cuntology 101” with Lambrini Girls, a track she’s remixed for the super-hot group. Her blond and brown hair is shaved with a tuft, the rest bushy and cascading down […]
On a stage draped with pieces of gauzy white fabric, Cate Le Bon enters to a mesmerizing wall of sound. Like the rest of her band, she is dressed in white, and swaying behind the microphone as she begins a song called “Jerome.” Her voice rises softly from the swirling, surreal music, with lyrics grappling […]
Cory Wong is in full professional podcaster mode. Seated in his Minneapolis studio with headphones on, he looks into a giant microphone stationed on his desk nearly as often as he looks into the camera. It’s a classic podcaster stance—and hardly surprising, given that over the last six years he’s hosted more than 100 episodes […]
Name Harper Simon Best known for Nobody knows anything about me! That’s why I’m so excited to do this interview with Liza Lentini for SPIN! Fun fact: I own a fur storage facility in Ronkonkoma, Long Island and play alto sax in a Henry Mancini tribute band! Current city Los Angeles Really want to be in Siwa Oasis in […]
In the summer of 1985, Queen seized the world’s attention with their Live Aid set, and Freddie Mercury commanded the entire crowd at Wembley Stadium to clap their hands in unison to “Radio Gaga.” Eight-and-a-half months later in the spring of 1986, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, […]