If you told Michelle Zauner in early 2021 that she’d dominate the year-end lists — both in music and books — she would’ve thought you were nuts. But here we are. And she had a perfect spot to soak it all in: Onstage in early December during a warm Mexico City evening, her confident stage […]
A pair of rappers pulling off the best Tom Tom Club sample since Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” (G Perico & Rucci), an iconic New Wave band trafficking in tongue-in-cheek nostalgia (Duran Duran), a blackgaze act embracing their love of vocal harmony (Deafheaven), and psych-rockers using the shopping mall as a metaphor for capitalist greed (My Morning […]
Back in June, SPIN published The 30 Best Albums of 2021 (So Far), rounding up everything from mainstream rock to experimental hip-hop. Six months later, we’re back with our year-end recap — and it’s interesting how, even though the stylistic balance has stayed consistent, the picks themselves haven’t. While this list also covers a lot of […]
Japanese Breakfast is the latest artist to head to New York’s Electric Lady Studios to record an EP for Spotify. In addition to Jon Batiste, Patti Smith, Natalie Bergman, and Faye Webster, Japanese Breakfast was accompanied by the Quartet 121 string section for their Electric Lady set. The band performed “Be Sweet,” and “Savage Good […]
Another day, another festival announcement with the reveal of who’s heading down to Austin for Levitation 2021. Get your costume ready because the event takes place on Halloween weekend beginning on Thursday, Oct. 28 to Oct. 31. There will also be a kick-off preshow on Wednesday Oct. 27 with Red Fang, Nothing, and Starcrawler headlining. […]
Last week, Michelle Zauner released her third album as Japanese Breakfast, which came a few months after the release of her stunning memoir, Crying in H Mart. Now, that book is coming to the big screen. MGM’s Orion Pictures has acquired the film rights to the New York Times best selling memoir. There is no release date set for […]
Best Album lists tend to earn all the internet hype — it always feels like a somewhat serious, academic endeavor, adding to the pantheon of OK Computers and To Pimp a Butterflys. But Best Songs lists are weirder, messier, even more challenging on a nuts and bolts level. (When was this song released? When was […]
About two years after her mother passed away, Michelle Zauner was people-watching in the food court of a Korean supermarket in Philadelphia. She studied the people eating, wondering what their stories were and wondering if they cared about hers. “I felt this real need to tell them and to show them. I think that’s very […]
Following her 2018 critically acclaimed essay in The New Yorker, Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner has announced that her upcoming memoir, Crying in H Mart, will be releasing on April 20, 2021. “My mother passed away almost six years ago and ever since, my life has felt folded in half, divided into a before and after […]