With their new, Aaron Dessner-co-written/co-produced album Prizefighter out today (Feb. 20) through Glassnote, Mumford & Sons have announced a gargantuan 2026 North American tour, including first-time visits to such stadiums as Chicago’s Wrigley Field (June 11) and Boston’s Fenway Park (June 22). Starting June 2 in Vancouver, the trek will also visit arenas and amphitheaters, […]
Despite making it clear for decades that he had no intention of ever rejoining Journey, vocalist Steve Perry has definitively shot down speculation that he would do exactly that ahead of the Feb. 28 launch of the band’s Final Frontier farewell tour. Perry’s 1977 arrival helped break Journey into the mainstream and turned it into […]
After Canadian indie rock band Wolf Parade’s 2005 song “I’ll Believe in Anything” zoomed back into the spotlight thanks to a sync in the buzzy gay hockey-themed show Heated Rivalry, group member Spencer Krug has unveiled a solo piano version of the track today (Feb. 20) through Sub Pop. Spotify streams for “I’ll Believe in […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. I remember when my older brother bought Radiohead’s Airbag / How Am I Driving? EP in the spring of 1998, and we were eager to hear more songs from the sessions that […]
Here’s a thing that happened one day at SPIN back in the ’90s: we all went to the airport. I don’t remember how we got there, or if we arrived together, I don’t remember much at all except that we met at the airport. Huddled together outside one of the terminals at LaGuardia. By “we” […]
As expected, Foo Fighters will release their 12th studio album ahead of a summer stadium tour, with Your Favorite Toy set to arrive April 24 through Roswell/RCA. The title cut is available now; a number of other new song snippets already appeared on the band’s web site, which in recent days was redesigned to depict […]
Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, the humans behind virtual group Gorillaz, don’t view death as the end, but as an excuse for a hell of a wake. Never ones for a morbid affair, they celebrate numerous collaborators on The Mountain (Kong) who have since passed on, including the Fall’s Mark E. Smith, De La Soul’s […]
Beloved singer/songwriter Jesse Malin on Wednesday (Feb. 18) kicked off the second incarnation of Silver Manhattan, the Broadway-inspired show about his life and career that delves into the freak spinal stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down in 2023. The show traces how a music-loving kid from Queens navigated the New York hardcore […]
“Honestly, this is one of the best interviews I’ve ever had.” Wohdee, who hails from the working class city of Birmingham, England, radiates warmth, smiles easily and is intentional with her answers. There’s no indication, at least not on Zoom, that she’s a beast on the mic. The rapper is on an upward trajectory, having […]
The Bandcamp page of L.A.-based Sedona mentions two new genres you might want to check out: myth rock and hair-salon pop. “I’ve also been calling it ‘pageant rock,’” she says. “It’s kind of been my fave right now.” The “it” that Sedona has been calling pageant rock is the music she has been writing and […]