“It’s so rad to be on this wave again,” says Yellowcard frontman Ryan Key. “What are the odds of catching this wave twice in your life, 20 years apart?” Around this time two decades ago, Key’s band was riding high on the platinum sales of 2003’s Ocean Avenue and the Top 40 crossover success of […]
“If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records,” was famously David Lee Roth’s sales pitch for the legendary California hard rock quartet he originally fronted from 1973 to 1985, and again from 2007 to 2020. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen and his brother Alex […]
Inside the Frolic Room in Hollywood, a small crowd of early drinkers leans up against the bar as an old Rolling Stones song blares overhead. It’s another hot day outside on the boulevard, but in here, it’s all shadowy glamour and laughter as the locals knock back one drink after another. It’s not where the […]
Taylor Momsen sits at a desk in her New York City apartment, the place she’s called home since she was 12, a sign hangs just beyond her right shoulder: “love” written in cursive pink neon. “Welcome to my home,” she says, fresh faced and smiling, a natural beauty in black wide-rimmed glasses. In August, her […]
No Doubt will reassemble for their first proper run of shows since 2015 with a six-date residency next May at Sphere in Las Vegas. The extravaganza is set for May 6, 8-9, 13, 15-16, with tickets going on sale Oct. 17 to the general public. The Gwen Stefani-led group reunited for two Coachella sets in […]
Name Kyle Stoopid Best known for Singer-songwriter-performer of Slightly Stoopid. Current city: Ocean Beach, San Diego, California. Really want to be in Home is where your heart is. As long as you’re surrounded by love and good people, it’s where you should be. That could be anywhere. That being said, we grew up close to Mexico by the beach, so […]
Walking up to DJ Jazzy Jeff’s Delaware home, it’s nearly impossible not to recall a scene in the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” where his character, Jazz, gets tossed out of Uncle Phil’s house—by Uncle Phil. More than three decades have passed since the beloved ’90s sitcom’s debut and in that time, Jazzy Jeff has established […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The Cranberries’ 1994 album No Need to Argue is their most popular release, selling seven million copies in the U.S. alone. And it’s been expanded multiple times with the addition of demos, […]
When Walt Disney died in 1966, his creative vision did too. The studio that had produced the animated classics Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, Dumbo, and Fantasia began focusing on live action, leading the company into genres that it had never approached before. Escape to Witch Mountain (1975), The Black Hole (1979), […]
Without specifying who is doing what, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has revealed the roster of presenters and performers for its 2025 induction ceremony, which will be held Nov. 8 at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater and will be streamed live on Disney+. Among them are Olivia Rodrigo, Elton John, Doja Cat, Missy Elliott, […]