Jake Kiszka didn’t need to put another musical project on his agenda. As Greta Van Fleet’s guitar player, Kiszka has been on an accelerating rocket ship since the group’s major label launch in 2017. But it wasn’t enough for Kiszka to play blistering live shows with his brothers in their Grammy-winning group. On their last […]
Roxy Music released its final album, Avalon, in 1982, capping off a decade that saw the group morph from the shimmering art rock of its debut to something more majestic but wearier. Seven years had passed since the group’s last masterpiece (Siren). The uneven Manifesto (1979) and Flesh + Blood (1980) felt like a group […]
As hip-hop was first blooming, with small steps, into the mainstream culture, long before it was the Earth-straddling phenomenon it became, a small cohort of photographers was capturing it in its infancy in New York City. Joe Conzo took some of hip-hop’s first ‘baby pictures’ in the 1970s, including of early b-boys and b-girls, DJs […]
On the heels of a collaboration at the MTV Video Music Awards, rising U.K. star YUNGBLUD and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Aerosmith are crossing the generational divide again with a five-song EP, One More Time, which will be released by Capitol on Nov. 21. The lead single, “My Only Angel,” is out now. […]
Name Ken Vasoli of the Starting Line Best known for Lifer song and dance man. Simultaneous professional bass player/semi-professional singer. Bleached hair 1999-2003. Current city Philadelphia, PA. Really want to be in I wouldn’t mind retiring in El Pescadero, Mexico. I would enjoy beach life with the family. Great eating and surfing, perhaps improving my skills at the latter. […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Bob Dylan’s sixth album Highway 61 Revisited, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary, opens with the landmark single “Like a Rolling Stone.” The song that follows it on the album, “Tombstone Blues,” […]
As a member of the hardcore outfit the Armed and the atmospheric jazz collective Fuubutsushi, Patrick Shiroishi has proven that he can handle both aggressive thrash and evocative ambience with finesse. For his latest solo project, he balances both, and creates something fraught and angry, yet strangely serene. Forgetting Is Violent begins with a voice […]
In 2005, what began as a modest multi-venue, fan-driven punk event in Chicago has morphed into a large-scale outdoor event that continues to mark its territory as one of the most impressive independent music fests in the country. Over the years, it’s ballooned in popularity thanks to its anything goes and everything happens here reputation. […]
Artists both familiar and new will be on display when NBC’s Saturday Night Live returns for its 51st season this fall. Bad Bunny will serve as host and Doja Cat as musical guest for the debut episode on Oct. 4. Bunny is about to wrap a historic residency in his home country of Puerto Rico […]
U2 will be honored with the 2025 Woody Guthrie Prize during an Oct. 21 ceremony at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Ok., and group members Bono and the Edge will be on hand to accept. The award is given annually to artists who “best exemplify Guthrie’s spirit and work by speaking for the less fortunate through music, […]