Frederick Mark Linkous was born into a family of coal miners in Virginia in 1962, and in the ’80s he moved to New York City and then to Los Angeles in search of success in the music industry. Linkous’s gift for riffs and hooks is readily apparent in the two albums he recorded as the […]
Dominique Fils-Aimé’s music makes indoors feel like outdoors—capturing the fresh, natural, rejuvenating version of being in nature. The singer-songwriter sits cross-legged on a blue couch, a slouchy sweater casually slipped off her shoulder, revealing a tank top underneath. An array of plants has unintentionally arranged itself into a halo behind her head. Her hair is […]
Joining forces amongst the Eel River’s majestic California Redwoods, Dirtybird Campout and Northern Nights Music Festival took over Cook’s Valley Campground for “an extraordinary weekend of music, art, cannabis, wellness, and community.” Fusing Dirtybird’s signature house/techno/tech-funk with Northern Nights’ unique music curation and one-of-a-kind cannabis experience, dance music fans were treated to the familiar “surprise […]
Name Geoff Wilkinson Best known for If you’ve never met me—“Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia).” If you have met me—my natural wit and charm, of course! Current city London. Really want to be in London (although like most Brits I still dream of living next to the sea—we do live on an island after all). Excited about The new (all instrumental) Us3 […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. In the constantly shifting landscape of popular music, headliners and opening acts can trade places in the space of just a couple of years. In fact, that’s exactly what happened to a […]
About 18 months ago, violinist-composer-singer Lili Haydn sent me a kind text: our dear friend, the irrepressible singer-songwriter Angela McCluskey, had suffered a massive heart attack and was in a coma from which she likely wouldn’t wake. The next day, we lost her. My first thought was of pianist Paul Cantelon, Angela’s husband of more […]
For a hugely popular, contemporary country music act—especially one with a fine, stately name—Old Dominion sure like to get weird. That creative impulse goes all the way back to their 2015 debut album, Meat and Candy, which had a cover depicting a waitress presiding over a table covered in a smorgasbord of delicious candy and […]
The modern glam rock resurgence can be attributed to a few bands, though it was The Darkness in the early 2000s that gave the movement weight. While bands like Starcrawler, Maneskin, and Temples are continuing what The Darkness started, it’s Britain’s The Struts that are igniting the real fire in the genre. The Struts formed […]
When I caught up with deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman) on a Tuesday afternoon in mid-August, it’s raining in Toronto and one of his three cats, Peanut, is going a little crazy with the thunderstorm outside. Zimmerman has been in the basement, where he’s been trying to resolve a developer challenge, before he emerges to speak to […]
Wisconsinite drummer Butch Vig, Nebraskan guitarist Duke Erikson, and Minnesotan guitarist Steve Marker met in the late ’70s in Madison, Wisconsin. Although Erikson and Vig’s bands Spooner and Fire Town each released a couple of well-received albums, it was really Smart Studios, which Vig and Marker founded in Madison in 1983, that made the Midwestern […]