More than 170 exclusive titles will be available in independent record stores on Nov. 28 as part of RSD Black Friday, including from Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, Chappell Roan and Billie Eilish, plus a witchy promotion with turntable maker Crosley surrounding the release of the film Wicked: For Good. Fans of a certain age will […]
Smashing Pumpkins have already reissued their 1995 double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness on several occasions, but another version will emerge Nov. 21 from UMe to celebrate the project’s 30th birthday. Available digitally and in CD and vinyl incarnations, the anniversary set is highlighted by 80 minutes of previously unreleased live recordings from […]
Ascendant rock quartet Momma are expanding their acclaimed latest Polyvinyl album, Welcome to My Blue Sky, on Nov. 14 with four outtakes and a cover of “Christian Brothers” by the late Elliott Smith’s pre-fame band Heatmiser. A head-nodding new single, “Cross Your Heart,” is out now in tandem with a video directed by Prophet Media’s […]
Kansas City, Mo., underground rock vets Boys Life will break a 29-year-hiatus from releasing new music with Ordinary Wars, a four-song EP arriving Nov. 21 from Spartan Records. The lead track, “Ordinary War,” is out now. “I think about how short life is a lot. I think we buy into a fantasy that America, money, […]
Stranger Things star and musician Finn Wolfhard is adapting the acclaimed 2016 Replacements biography Trouble Boys into a feature film, SPIN can confirm. Wolfhard has been working for several months with his father Eric and Neighborhood Watch producer Rich Peete to co-write a screenplay based on the book, which was written by journalist Bob Mehr. […]
Nine Inch Nails will reprise their dazzling Peel It Back tour in U.S. arenas next year, beginning Feb. 5 in New Orleans and concluding March 16 in Sacramento, Ca. The opening act will again be electronic musician Boys Noize, who also performed during portions of Nine Inch Nails’ sets at the recent shows. The two […]
It’s an eventful day in the world of North Carolina indie duo Sylvan Esso, who have released their first single in three years, “WDID,” and pledged to remove their digital catalog from Spotify. The confrontational cut is the first to be released on their own label, Psychic Hotline. “As we prepare to release new music, […]
French musician Melody Prochet’s fourth album as Melody’s Echo Chamber, Unclouded, will arrive Dec. 5 from Domino Records and, as previously reported, was produced and co-written with Swedish musician Sven Wunder. A new song, “In the Stars,” is out now. “The music I create unusually inhabits the liminal zone between realism and fables,” says Prochet. […]
Shoegaze heroes Hum and Chapterhouse will reunite for the third Slide Away festival, which is organized by Philadelphia band Nothing and will visit Brooklyn, N.Y., Chicago and Los Angeles in May 2026. It will be Hum’s first shows since 2019 and the 2021 death of drummer Bryan St. Pere, while Chapterhouse will be on stage […]
Bad Bunny will be the first Puerto Rican artist to headline Apple Music’s Super Bowl Halftime Show on Feb. 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Ca. The news was revealed tonight (Sept. 28) following weeks of speculation about potential stars Taylor Swift and Adele. “What I’m feeling goes beyond myself,” said the artist, who […]