Annie Kuchenmeister was 16 years old when she and her sister, 11-year-old Nissa, formed the South Minneapolis band Loki’s Folly in 2017. With Annie on guitar and Nissa on drums, the duo started the band out of their love of Green Day and My Chemical Romance. But it was Minneapolis’ own, the Replacements, that was […]
Millions of years ago, a group of monstrous warriors from outer space was banished to Earth, where they proceeded to decimate the dinosaur population, fornicate with apes, and ultimately, create what would come to be the human race. These “Scumdogs of the Universe,” as they call themselves, were then frozen in Antarctica some time during […]
South African-born, Harlem, New York City raised, DJ/producer AQUTIE is unifying the dance world with her signature global African dance sound, incorporating elements of Afro house, AfroTech, gqom (a South African form of dance music), and amapiano, also a South African genre. And she’s about to tour the world. You just played Coachella for the […]
“Cool. Wow. Being interviewed by SPIN, full circle,” gushes filmmaker and former SPIN intern Chandler Levack while sitting in an empty office of Toronto’s Elevation Pictures. The Canadian company is distributing her new film, Mile End Kicks, which just had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Toronto-born Levack went from music […]
What happens in Quebec too often stays in Quebec. A case in point: Viviane Audet. Actress, singer-songwriter, musician, composer — she’d be a big fish in any-sized pond. But as Steve Martin once observed, “It’s like those French have a different word for everything.” The upshot: Her amazing projects have received decidedly limited coverage in […]
It’s 8:00 a.m. in Los Angeles and Mark Laita’s already been up for five hours. If you’re one of the over 6.6 million who subscribe to his YouTube channel, Soft White Underbelly, you’ve witnessed the heart-wrenching, disconcerting stories he’s captured in nearly 3,000 videos; up-close tales told by real people, many suffering from addiction and […]
I’d gone to a homeless camp in North Portland to bring a meal to a man named Paul. But there was a big conflict going on, because the city had posted a sign at the camp saying they had to leave by a certain time. And that certain time was then. Rapid Response Bio-Clean is […]
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 […]