When a 10-year-old Freddie Ross Jr. stepped into the Pressing Onward Baptist Church — a little brick building on Danneel Street in New Orleans — he was mesmerized by the spirit he felt and the celebration he witnessed among its congregants. He knew it was a safe place. Young Freddie, known best now as Big Freedia, […]
It’s a bright weekday morning in Los Angeles as the singer-songwriters of Folk Bitch Trio roll up to the Laurel Canyon Country Store. This isn’t exactly a pilgrimage for them, but these young Australian folkies fully understand where they’re at, and have a sense of the profound musical history that has unfolded on these winding […]
Before Good Neighbours’ Oli Fox and Scott Verrill arrive at their “Burgers + Bangers” album listening party at Clark Street Diner in Hollywood—dubbed “Blue Sky Café” for the evening in honor of their upcoming album Blue Sky Mentality—the mood is already set by the select group of fans in attendance. Fashion ranges from the ’70s […]
It takes guts to call yourself the world’s best American band. To be fair, White Reaper never technically did that. They just released an album in 2017 called The World’s Best American Band, stocked it with top-to-bottom arena-slash-convertible rock reminiscent of the opening of an ’80s movie shot in a high school parking lot establishing […]
You know Seth MacFarlane’s voice. You’ve heard it a million times as Peter, Brian, and Stewie Griffin. Or maybe as Stan and Roger Smith on “American Dad!” Or maybe as the eponymous bear from the Ted movies. If you’ve seen a Seth MacFarlane vehicle, you’ve not only heard his voice plenty, but you know that […]
Ruston Kelly was in the middle of a years-long existential crisis when he left his own body and watched himself sitting at his piano. An astral projection. He was sober, clean from drugs for a few years. An apparition approached him while he floated. It was Jesus. As the figure came closer to Kelly, the […]
Chris Cuffaro here tells Matt Thompson how he captured this band as the sonic storm was set to break. The shoot came through SPIN. I got a studio at the lot on A&M Records. I walked into the studio at the lot, looked around, and said, “OK, we’ve got a gray backdrop, a black backdrop; […]
Australian vocalist, producer, DJ and dance music trailblazer KLP recently brought her community vision to Ibiza’s superclub Hï. Her collaborative programming included a “Sweat It Out” writing camp that incorporated 50 international artists as well as a string of night clubs. The Platinum-certified artist has been getting solid rotation on BBC Radio 1, Kiss FM […]
Name X Ambassadors (Intro completed by Sam Nelson Harris) Best known for My moustache. Current city Los Angeles. Really want to be in A cabin in the woods learning how to be a cobbler or some shit because the entertainment industry is sooo wacky and I often wanna run away from it all. (But who am I kidding? I’d […]
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 […]