As I greet Bryan Adams on our phone call, he’s surprised that SPIN is doing a feature on him. “I didn’t know that SPIN was a big fan,” he says, as he heads to Italy to continue his world tour supporting his new album, Roll With the Punches. I’m confused and ask him to elaborate. […]
On May 21, 1998, I saw Garbage at what used to be The Palace in Hollywood. I wasn’t there for Garbage—I came for the opener, bizarrely, Talvin Singh—but I left singing Garbage songs. I knew all the singles. How could you not in the ’90s, when their music was everywhere? Even more than the songs […]
Smack dab in the middle of the final decade before the millennium—when some truly believed the world would end—chaos and catastrophe marked a year of strong attempts towards peace and world change. The O.J. Simpson murder trial began in January, 1995. The Oklahoma City Bombing took the lives of 168 people in April. The Srebrenica […]
Amid their first tour since 2017, Alabama Shakes have released “Another Life,” their first new song in more than a decade. The track precedes their debut album for new label Island Records, a release date for which has yet to be announced. “Another Life,” which the band has been playing live on its current tour, […]
Amazon MGM Studios has acquired the long-in-the-works, Morgan Neville-directed Paul McCartney documentary Man on the Run and will release the film Feb. 25, 2026, on Prime Video and in select theaters on a date yet to be announced. Man on the Run is premiering this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. As previously […]
Name Tom Johnston Best known for Being a singer, guitar player, songwriter for the Doobie Brothers. Current city Marin County, north of San Francisco a little bit. Really want to be in Dublin, that’s a great town. I really like Dublin. Excited about Our new album, Walk This Road. We’re starting the U.S. version of touring on that right now. We’ve been over in […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. “This is a song some of you have probably never heard…most of you,” Jeff Buckley told his audience during a July 1995 performance in France, introducing “What Will You Say”—a haunting midtempo […]
After surprising fans earlier this month with a drop of 17 new singles, Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams has collected the tracks into a proper album dubbed Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party. The project is available now digitally and can also be pre-ordered on vinyl ahead of a Nov. 7 release date. A limited run of […]
Some of the biggest names in music will head south next spring as part of Lollapalooza festival visits to Chile, Argentina and Brazil, including Sabrina Carpenter, Tyler, the Creator, Chappell Roan, Deftones, Skrillex, Lorde and Doechii. The events will be simultaneously held March 13-15, 2026, at Parque O’Higgins in Santiago and Hippodromo de San Isidro […]
Without calling Donald Trump out by name, Neil Young tees off on the U.S. government’s recent mobilization of National Guard troops into Washington, D.C., in a new song, “Big Crime,” which he debuted last night (Aug. 27) in Chicago and has since posted a soundcheck recording of on his web site. “No more great again […]