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, […]
Eugene Hütz got his first taste of faraway New York in 1989. He was just 14 then and growing up in Ukraine, when an uncompromising rock band called Sonic Youth exploded his mind with waves of experimental sound, hot-rodded guitars, and avant-garde tunes. Two decades before starting his own band, Gogol Bordello, Hütz discovered his […]
Guns N’ Roses closed out Appetite for Destruction, their 1987 debut, with… well, a bang. According to rock ‘n roll lore, during sessions in New York for “Rocket Queen,” the band flew in a stripper who had been dating drummer Steven Adler for a few months. He wasn’t at the studio that day, but Slash […]
On December 5, 2025, Spotify’s Wrapped statistics showed that Bad Bunny was the most-streamed artist of the year with 19.8 billion streams. To put that into perspective, there are a little over 8 billion people in the world, and streams of Bad Bunny’s music more than double the global population. His popularity shouldn’t come as […]
Whatever expectation or preconception exists around Chet Faker—whether through his recorded music or onstage—the individual behind it, born Nick Murphy, is consistently unexpected and disarming. When I interviewed him in 2019 for his debut Nick Murphy album Run Fast Sleep Naked, he showed up carrying fresh-pressed juices in a shoulder cooler bag. Six years later, […]
Puscifer is not like other bands. Not even like other bands fronted by the same man. Maynard James Keenan has spent the last three decades presiding over the muscular alt-metal of Tool and the inventive hard rock of A Perfect Circle—all of it to great success—but reveals a different side of himself as master of […]
Name Tom Lea, violist from Vitamin String Quartet Best known for Being a lovable classically trained viola player who loves ‘90s hip-hop and all things soulful. Current city Los Angeles. Really want to be in Anywhere in Japan. I haven’t been there since I was touring with my old band Rhye in 2018 and I really cannot wait to […]
Jay Buchanan is a lover, not a fighter. If you spend some time listening to the soul-stirring songs he’s made with blues rock band Rival Sons, you’ll find a window into his heart. The blistering “Electric Man” comes off like a love letter to the very craft of rock ‘n roll while “Shooting Stars” (recently […]
As if the chaos experienced by protesting Minnesotans—at the hands of ICE, at the hands of the Minnesota State Patrol (MSP) — hasn’t been disastrous enough, we now know MSP is using long-range acoustic devices, or LRADs, designed to disperse crowds. Rather than pushing Maple Grove protestors away, or gently dispersing throngs of anti-ICE locals […]