Chuck Inglish today isn’t the same Chuck Inglish from 2022. He sounds noticeably different, like he’s weathered some recent storms that have reshaped his perspective on the world. Throughout the interview, it becomes painfully clear the Cool Kids co-founder has, in fact, been chewed up and spit out over the last three years, a period […]
Chris Daughtry has gone over to the dark side. You can see it right on his skin: his arms and shoulders newly blacked out, smothering his previous tattoos under unbroken sleeves of ink. And it can be heard in his newest music, which leans away from his earlier pop-rock radio past toward something both heavier […]
Big Daddy Kane takes a couple of deep breaths backstage at The Railyard in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he’s performing a free show as part of Raashan Ahmad’s Wonderful Fantastic Hip Hop Festival. A revolving door of fans are hounding him for photos and he respectfully obliges, although it’s clear he’s trying to get […]
Spend a few hours with Die Spitz and you’ll realize a bit of chaos follows the band wherever they go. Not that it’s a bad thing. In three years since releasing their debut EP, this ad hoc group of 22-year-old friends and sometimes roommates who meld punk, metal, hardcore, ’90s alt rock (and melody when […]
Name Seán Griffin Best known for I’m best known for being the lead singer of the Ruffians and also that guy with a pile of kids. Current city Kingston, NY. Really want to be in I’m pretty happy here in the Hudson Valley, but I wouldn’t mind being in Galway city, and since we are dreaming I’d be turning […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The members of the Beatles were early champions of Harry Nilsson’s music, and the Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter’s early albums spun off massive chart hits like 1969’s “Everybody’s Talkin’” and 1971’s “Without You.” Over […]
The kids are not all right, according to the internet. Gen Z, and I suppose now Gen Alpha, is/are experiencing anxiety and depression at unprecedented levels. Most of this is a reasonable reaction to the fact that we are inhabitants of a self-immolating rock hurtling towards extinction; and to the latest terrible news about (please […]
King Princess is ready to take the next step with fans: getting matching tattoos. On Sept. 13, one day after the release of her latest music manifesto, Girl Violence, the New York-based artist, aka KP aka Mikaela Straus, is hosting a global flash event in partnership with select women- and LGBTQ-led tattoo shops in the […]
It’s hard to explain if you weren’t there. I was there, though. It was one of the few times that I was there for one of those things you had to be there for. It was 2010-ish, in the steaming-hot basement of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, a landmark venue for the city’s music […]
Westerns feel good, feel right, in volatile, contested times. But not just any Westerns — not kitsch dross like Joel Souza’s Rust, which even a real-life blood curse can’t make matter. No: we’re talking feral sagas of de-civilization which burn like a dirty-ass Book of Job, scorched to the bone with Job’s question, “Why did […]