Mike Skinner fades in and out of focus as he shifts around against a green screen of brightly colored pills and capsules at his London. As the central force behind the Streets—last heard of in 2012 with the dismaying album, Computers and Blues—this choice of backdrop is more in keeping with Skinner circa 2002 and […]
There was a time when live music was all there was. No shaky mobile phone camera videos of concerts uploaded to Instagram Stories or YouTube. No hissing bootleg tapes recorded out of the lint-ridden pocket of a teenage concertgoer’s knitted wool sweater. No sounds emanating from a needle against a scratched-up piece of easily shattered […]
Type ”Murray, Kentucky” into a Google Maps search box, and the jagged edges of what USA Today once called the “Friendliest Small Town in America” come into view. There are two labels. One, predictably, is for Murray State University, a public college in town. The other is simply called “Confederate Monument.” It’s right there by […]
Rufus Wainwright admits that he couldn’t have picked a worse time to waft back from the heady opera-world heights where he’s quietly existed for nearly a decade. But he had no choice — his latest ninth outing, Unfollow the Rules, which drops this Friday (July 10), is a sleek, Mitchell Froom-produced return to the cocktail-chilled […]
Jeff Ament should be in Europe right now and Pearl Jam should be hitting their stride playing in front of tens of thousands of fans in support of this year’s acclaimed Gigaton. But you know the story by now. When Pearl Jam postponed the first leg of their U.S. tour in March and, later on, the […]
The ubiquitous advertising campaign featuring “the most interesting man in the world” got it wrong. The most interesting man is indeed a debonair gray-haired gentleman, but he’s real: Ted Templeman, record producer of classics from Van Halen, Van Morrison, stellar non-Van’s including Captain Beefheart, The Doobie Brothers, Bette Midler, and many more. The 77-year-old Santa […]
Some songs are like time travel. You drop the needle on your favorite record, close your eyes and fall into a golden memory. Deep house producer and international DJ Kaskade took that formula one further. His new single, “When I’m With You,” featuring warm vocals from longtime friend and collaborator Colette, transports us back to […]
When singer and songwriter Nahko Bear wrote “Dear Brother” for Nahko and Medicine for the People’s fourth album, Take Your Power Back, it wasn’t to charge up the masses to fight against racial injustice and police brutality in 2020. It was written in 2014 — a year after the Black Lives Matter Movement was born and during the […]
In a world where little makes sense anymore, Public Enemy suddenly reemerging to release a fiery new song on Juneteenth actually makes a lot of sense. Early on Friday morning, the legendary hip-hop pioneers released their latest song, “State of the Union (STFU),” with a video to go along with it. It marked the first […]
An online push to supplant the city of Richmond’s longstanding statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee with one of GWAR’s late frontman, Oderus Urungus, is gaining traction, with nearly 50,000 people endorsing the Change.org petition in just sis short days. On Tuesday, SPIN spoke with the goo-splattering metal outfit’s drummer, JiZMak Da Gusha, who […]