Touring and Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual hit shelves—and the music business’ consciousness—in 2023. This year, the much-needed audiobook for the 600+ page book was released. Edited by award-winning psychotherapist and music industry health consultant Tamsin Embleton, who founded the nonprofit Music Industry Therapist Collective in 2018, the longtime music professional contributed the introduction […]
“The villain is the character that the people remember,” said actor Udo Kier, an icon of world cinema who’s carved out his own specific niche of Euro-flavored antagonists in a career spanning six decades. But remembrance, and inevitable reverence, for villains bears a divisiveness as we’re morally conditioned to demonize them. (Credit: Getty Images) The […]
Taylor Momsen breezes into a Manhattan diner like a benevolent banshee, her pale skin and long blonde hair shock against her all-black silhouette. She’s just come from a makeup trial, lids dusted with iridescent shadow glow against her blue eyes. She orders a Coke Zero with a straw, curling her long fingers around the pebbled […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Prince released an album almost every year of the 1980s, but his output was so prolific throughout that decade that there was always more material spilling forth through other outlets. He wrote […]
Name Mike Edwards Best known for Singer from Jesus Jones, EMF’s best known side project. Current city I don’t live in a city, and without referring to Google Maps to see where my nearest cathedral is, I expect my closest qualifying metropolis would be Birmingham. Really want to be in Most of the time, I would rather be somewhere in […]
“Sometimes I wish I didn’t feel so much,” says Mon Laferte. “On a normal day, I probably find myself crying 10 different times. I wake up, walk into my garden, and suddenly I feel everything: the sky, the clouds, a butterfly. I find beauty even in a garbage dump. I start making up stories: who […]
After falling apart onstage in Boston last September when frontman Perry Farrell attacked guitarist Dave Navarro, Jane’s Addiction has announced its official breakup. The four members have also issued apologies to one another for the band’s unfortunate fate, which involved cancelling an in-progress tour, aborting new music, a host of social media finger-pointing and, eventually, […]
Having already announced its first proper performance with Mermaid Avenue collaborator Billy Bragg at its upcoming Solid Sound festival, Wilco has confirmed the rest of the lineup for the June 26-28 event at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Ma. Beyond Wilco and Bragg, who will play both together and individually, the fest will present the […]
It’s a day of mixed news for Rolling Stones fans, as the band has nixed plans for a 2026 stadium tour of U.K, and Europe but will release its second album with producer Andrew Watt at some point next year, sources confirm to SPIN. Rumors about the Stones’ return to the road picked up in […]
Having recently signed on to direct a film version of the Replacements biography Trouble Boys, musician and Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard has directed the first music video for the classic 1973 George Harrison single “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth).” The stop-motion animation project was meticulously assembled by 20 animators from Toronto-based […]