B-Real drops a bombshell mere minutes into our interview. Cypress Hill’s 1993 juggernaut, “Insane in the Brain,” was initially written as a diss track aimed at “Treat ‘Em Right” rapper Chubb Rock. Suddenly, after more than 30 years of hearing the Grammy-nominated song in heavy rotation, it was no longer perceived as just a weed […]
I was 21 when Brokeback Mountain was released. I have such fond memories of going to the gay bar in my hometown of Minneapolis and dancing to bass-driven remixes of Gustavo Santaolalla’s gentle, emotive original score. Even in its house-music version, there’s an inherent sadness in these songs, and sometimes that’s the best to dance […]
The irony isn’t lost on Guy Garvey that he had to get good and drunk to write a song called “Sober.” “Isn’t it perverse?” he says with a chuckle. The Manchester band first came up with the track’s taut, bass-driven groove shortly after Alex Reeves (The Ting Tings, Bat For Lashes) started playing drums for […]
In a big empty house high in the hills near Glendale, California, Daron Malakian is singing along to an old outlaw country tune. It’s called “Waymore’s Blues,” a classic Waylon Jennings ballad from 1975. It’s a gently loping track set to acoustic guitar, organ, and a playful bass groove. The lyrics are a little bit […]
Maye Osorio couldn’t sleep. One day, while buying a yoga mat at the Grand Central Market’s Bazaar in Downtown Los Angeles, she found out why. “I had a meeting that day in that building, and I saw a lady who was selling yoga mats, so I went up to her and she just started reading […]
As I walk into Yellow Racket Records at 2311 E. Main Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Destroyer is playing over the loudspeakers. Ben VanderHart, the founder and creative director of the store, is sitting at a table in the Listening Room, a space situated in the next room over from the main store area, where listening […]
Name Will Anderson Best known for My music-related videos that you’ve probably skipped past on your feed at some point. Current city Nashville, TN. Really want to be in Anywhere I can drink coffee and eat pizza near a beach with my dogs. Excited about My new album How Little Love Is / How Worth Everything. My current music collection has […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Composer and arranger Boris “Lalo” Schifrin died in June at the age of 93, leaving behind a remarkable body of work. Schifrin was born in Argentina, studied music at a conservatory in […]
“Now I think you can stay there. It’s like an Airbnb now,” says filmmaker Amy Berg about the now-famous house where musician Jeff Buckley lived during his three-month stay in Memphis, the city he retreated to after the release of Grace to work on his second album, My Sweetheart the Drunk. Buckley’s time there was […]
Netflix syndrome. Most of us suffer from it, even if we’ve never heard of it. It’s the phenomenon of spending massive amounts of time scrolling through online content, trying to choose what you want to watch. But rather than making a decision, you become frustrated and overwhelmed, settling on watching something you don’t really want […]