Lady Gaga (12), Bruno Mars (11) and Kendrick Lamar (10) lead the nominees for the 2025 edition of the MTV Video Music Awards, which will air live for the first time on CBS on Sept. 7 from UBS Arena just outside Manhattan. The show will also be simulcast on MTV and stream on Paramount+ in […]
Ozzy Osbourne died last month of a heart attack and was also suffering with coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s, per the rock legend’s death certificate. Osbourne passed away July 22 in London at the age of 76, just 17 days after completing his final live performances with Black Sabbath and his solo band. According to […]
A week after surprising fans with a drop of 17 new singles, Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams has unveiled a video for the song “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party.” Described as a “portrait” of the artist’s Nashville hometown, the Zachary Gray-directed clip finds her milling around the city’s popular Broadway district, hanging out with Tennessee […]
As I pull up to Sunny War’s small, red and black Craftsman bungalow, the last remnants of the 4 inches of snow that fell earlier in the week are melting under the blue, cloudless sky over her historic Glenwood neighborhood in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She invites me in to sit at her small dining room table. […]
DENM still remembers hearing Sublime on the radio as a kindergartner. The SoCal native, born Mac Montgomery in 1990, grew up with songs like “Santeria,” “What I Got,” and “Garden Grove” serving as the soundtrack to his life. Just 6 years old when lead singer Bradley Nowell died of an accidental drug overdose, DENM didn’t […]
Fresh off a massive performance yesterday (Aug. 3) at Lollapalooza in Chicago, Doechii has revealed plans for her Live From the Swamp tour this fall. The 12-date headlining outing will kick off Oct. 14 at the Windy City’s Aragon Ballroom and wrap Nov. 10 in Seattle. Its name is inspired by themes and imagery from […]
When Evan Felker got back to making music again with Turnpike Troubadours in 2022, it came with a new sense of balance. On the road, life tended to unfold at night at the microphone, but on his ranch in Central Oklahoma, Felker was up early and working with his hands. With about 200 cows, his […]
A Long Island hip-hop crew called Spectrum City evolved into Public Enemy in the mid-’80s, signed to Def Jam, and became one the most politically outspoken and musically innovative groups the genre had, and has, ever seen. Chuck D and Flavor Flav have been the group’s only two consistent members over the years: the high-minded […]
One of the more intriguing reissues of the 2020s is a rare, 50-year-old album by a band with a crap name. In Fall 1972, Greene Bottle Records, a subsidiary of Paramount, released the debut album by a New York City group called Pool-Pah, who combined odd synth excursions and strutting funk with winding prog arrangements […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The Pogues performing in Amsterdam on November 4, 1989. (Credit: Frans Schellekens/Redferns) Elvis Costello loved the Pogues in the 1980s. The band’s opinions of Costello, however, were mixed. Bassist Cait O’Riordan began […]