Big Daddy Kane takes a couple of deep breaths backstage at The Railyard in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he’s performing a free show as part of Raashan Ahmad’s Wonderful Fantastic Hip Hop Festival. A revolving door of fans are hounding him for photos and he respectfully obliges, although it’s clear he’s trying to get […]
Spend a few hours with Die Spitz and you’ll realize a bit of chaos follows the band wherever they go. Not that it’s a bad thing. In three years since releasing their debut EP, this ad hoc group of 22-year-old friends and sometimes roommates who meld punk, metal, hardcore, ’90s alt rock (and melody when […]
For one cruel moment it felt like we had David Bowie back. He went silent for nearly a decade after suffering a heart attack during a performance in Prague in 2004, resurfacing in 2013 with The Next Day, a strong collection of songs that felt like a comfortable, but not revelatory, coda to a multi-decade-long […]
Name Seán Griffin Best known for I’m best known for being the lead singer of the Ruffians and also that guy with a pile of kids. Current city Kingston, NY. Really want to be in I’m pretty happy here in the Hudson Valley, but I wouldn’t mind being in Galway city, and since we are dreaming I’d be turning […]
Pink Floyd are expanding their 1975 album Wish You Were Here for a 50th anniversary deluxe edition due Dec. 12 from Sony Music. The collection is led by six previously unreleased alternate versions and 16 live recordings sourced from a bootleg of an April 26, 1975, concert at Los Angeles Sports Arena. The first song […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The members of the Beatles were early champions of Harry Nilsson’s music, and the Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter’s early albums spun off massive chart hits like 1969’s “Everybody’s Talkin’” and 1971’s “Without You.” Over […]
Extending a New York-area tradition since 2017, LCD Soundsystem will be back in action this winter with another residency, this time comprising 12 shows across three weekends at Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Queens. Dates for the Bowery Presents-produced run begin Nov. 20 and conclude Dec. 13. Although the James Murphy-led group has previously anchored its […]
The kids are not all right, according to the internet. Gen Z, and I suppose now Gen Alpha, is/are experiencing anxiety and depression at unprecedented levels. Most of this is a reasonable reaction to the fact that we are inhabitants of a self-immolating rock hurtling towards extinction; and to the latest terrible news about (please […]
Gorillaz have gathered another highly eclectic cast of collaborators for their ninth album, The Mountain, which will be released March 20 on the Damon Albarn-led band’s new KONG label. Lead track “The Happy Dictator” features sibling pop auteurs Sparks and can be sampled below. Among the other artists lending a hand on the 15-track The […]
King Princess is ready to take the next step with fans: getting matching tattoos. On Sept. 13, one day after the release of her latest music manifesto, Girl Violence, the New York-based artist, aka KP aka Mikaela Straus, is hosting a global flash event in partnership with select women- and LGBTQ-led tattoo shops in the […]