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, […]
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 […]