Inside the Frolic Room in Hollywood, a small crowd of early drinkers leans up against the bar as an old Rolling Stones song blares overhead. It’s another hot day outside on the boulevard, but in here, it’s all shadowy glamour and laughter as the locals knock back one drink after another. It’s not where the […]
Taylor Momsen sits at a desk in her New York City apartment, the place she’s called home since she was 12, a sign hangs just beyond her right shoulder: “love” written in cursive pink neon. “Welcome to my home,” she says, fresh faced and smiling, a natural beauty in black wide-rimmed glasses. In August, her […]
Name Kyle Stoopid Best known for Singer-songwriter-performer of Slightly Stoopid. Current city: Ocean Beach, San Diego, California. Really want to be in Home is where your heart is. As long as you’re surrounded by love and good people, it’s where you should be. That could be anywhere. That being said, we grew up close to Mexico by the beach, so […]
Walking up to DJ Jazzy Jeff’s Delaware home, it’s nearly impossible not to recall a scene in the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” where his character, Jazz, gets tossed out of Uncle Phil’s house—by Uncle Phil. More than three decades have passed since the beloved ’90s sitcom’s debut and in that time, Jazzy Jeff has established […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The Cranberries’ 1994 album No Need to Argue is their most popular release, selling seven million copies in the U.S. alone. And it’s been expanded multiple times with the addition of demos, […]
When Walt Disney died in 1966, his creative vision did too. The studio that had produced the animated classics Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, Dumbo, and Fantasia began focusing on live action, leading the company into genres that it had never approached before. Escape to Witch Mountain (1975), The Black Hole (1979), […]
He tells me he can walk on water. And for a split second, I believe him. This is Robert Finley after all, a musician whose career cackles in the face of predictability, and instead redefines the trope of the artist playing the long game. A sharecropper’s son who as a boy missed school to work […]
“Ride this train to Roseburg, Oregon,” says Johnny Cash in his gravelly intro to “Lumberjack,” the third track of his 1960 concept album, Ride This Train. Over the blare of a rail whistle, Cash continues: “Now there’s a town for you — and you talk about rough.” Rough this southern Oregon town still can be, […]
“There’s really only two things you can count on in this world: songs and dogs. Those are the two things that never will let you down.” This is the central belief of comedian and lifelong music fan Christian Finnegan. However, he also knows the “songs” half of this equation is complicated by one of life’s […]
Portland, Oregon, is a major city without a major tourist destination. New York City has the Statue of Liberty and countless museums. Chicago has Millennium Park, while Los Angeles is brimming with iconic places. People who visit Portland come for its access to nature and excellent restaurant scene. Visitors may flock to Powell’s Books, but […]