Rock stars from throughout the past 50 years have joined to pay tribute to influential KISS guitarist Ace Frehley, who died yesterday (Oct. 16) at the age of 74. The musician suffered a brain injury after falling in his recording studio last month and had been breathing with the aid of a ventilator in recent […]
Alex Gaskarth, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for pop-punk band All Time Low, says the group’s new album, Everyone’s Talking, out October 17, was inspired by the 20th anniversary shows they were playing in 2024. “There was such an outpouring of love and support from the fans, and that invigorated us to start writing new […]
Name Anton Newcombe Current City I live in Berlin and have my studio [there]. Really want to be in I’m one of those people that looks at property listings in Sweden and Norway on the ocean or lakes and thinks, “I could afford this…I don’t need people.” Excited about I’m excited to finish our tour; Canada, U.S.A., Mexico, then South […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. MTV premiered on August 1, 1981, and four different videos by Split Enz aired on the channel in its first 24 hours. The New Zealand band had only made its Hot 100 […]
The city of Golden Sands may not actually exist, but it still has a weird and wonderful TV station. Programme 4 broadcasts commercials for local restaurants like Ramon’s Venetian Room (with new pleather-bound menus) and local businesses like Browner Carpeting (check out their floor-to-ceiling garage shag). There are ads for the annual Starving Artist Mathis […]
KISS co-founder and guitarist Paul “Ace” Frehley died today (Oct. 16) from head injuries suffered during a recent fall in his recording studio. He was 74. “We are completely devastated and heartbroken,” his family said. “In his last moments, we were fortunate enough to have been able to surround him with loving, caring, peaceful words, thoughts, […]
It took the Cure 16 years to release a studio album after 2008’s 4:13 Dream, but it seems that Robert Smith and company are working much more quickly in its wake. In an updated band biography posted on the Cure’s web site, it is revealed that the musicians spent time this March at Wales’ Rockfield […]
On a sweltering Saturday afternoon at Austin City Limits, the de la Rosa brothers of Latin Mafia are drenched in sweat after performing on the Miller Lite Stage. As one of the few Latin acts on the bill, the trio carry themselves more like Mexican rock stars after inciting mosh pits and crowd-surfing during their […]
“What’s crazy is we had two different sessions at Pachyderm. And each time the power went out, which we already thought was really weird. In fact, the guy who runs the studio, Nick [Tveitbakk], said that never happened in 15 years,” John Pelant explained, while sitting on a lawn chair from the safety of his […]
On one of the U.S. tours to support the album Alien Lanes, Guided By Voices, for whom I played bass guitar at that time, did a show at a club in Los Angeles called Spaceland. It was so new it didn’t even have a stage. The P.A. system was not top flight, either, which is […]