Beauty School Dropout has been a band for barely half a decade, but they’ve already played the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. When SPIN caught up with the busy Los Angeles quartet of singer Cole “Colie” Hutzler, guitarist Brent “Beepus” Burdett, producer-guitarist Bardo Novotny, and drummer Colton Flurry, they were fresh off a July […]
Bruce Springsteen fans are in for another bonanza of rarities with Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition, which arrives Oct. 17 from Sony Music a week ahead of the film that portrays its creation, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. The four-disc boxed set is led by a previously unheard electric trio version of “Born in the U.S.A.,” […]
It had been 19 years since Pete Droge released a solo album before his incredibly emotional and personal record, Fade Away Blue, was released on August 22. Turns out, he’d been busy. Droge was 40 when he decided he needed to find his birth mother. It was Thanksgiving weekend 2009. Droge was going through some […]
For the first time since 1916 when Pancho ‘La Cucaracha’ Villa and hundreds of revolutionary gangbangers (los Villistas) stormed the southern border to sack the New Mexico town of Columbus, America is experiencing — our government claims — a land invasion. The intervening century-plus has been quiet, too quiet, on the invasion-front — but not […]
Tame Impala get an assist from Stranger Things star/musician Joe Keery in the video for their latest new song, “Loser,” which follows the release last month of the seven-minute, electro-driven “End of Summer.” The clip was directed by KRISTOFSKI, who has worked closely for years on the visual side of Tame Impala with frontman Kevin […]
While they continue to astonish audiences on their first North American tour in three years, Nine Inch Nails have unveiled the Maxime Quoilin-directed video for “As Alive As You Need Me To Be,” the lead single from their soundtrack to the upcoming film TRON: Ares. The latter is due Sept. 19 from Interscope, with the […]
After high-profile team-ups with Joni Mitchell and Elton John, Brandi Carlile is going back to her own music on the new album Returning to Myself, which will be released Oct. 24 by Interscope/Lost Highway. The title track is out now, accompanied by a video from director Floria Sigismondi. Returning to Myself was produced by Carlile […]
When Ron Flynt began writing “Back to California,” the jangly title track and lead single of the first 20/20 album in twenty-seven years, he had no idea that the line “Not everybody wants to burn it down” would eventually be heard against the backdrop of the January L.A. wildfires. “Honestly, I thought that was a […]
Prior to meeting Mat Osman of Suede some three decades ago, I had already heard many positive things about him from colleagues who’d interviewed the bassist. We crossed paths on February 2, 1995, after Suede’s landmark show at the American Legion Hall in Los Angeles. He was approachable, warm, and inclusive. I gave him a […]
“Yeah, trumpet’s a motherfucker,” Theo Croker says with a chuckle when I express amazement at the range of sounds a skilled musician can get out of an instrument with just three valves. “Y’know, the pitch of the notes is determined by the shape of the aperture, which is the hole that you create with the […]