It takes guts to call yourself the world’s best American band. To be fair, White Reaper never technically did that. They just released an album in 2017 called The World’s Best American Band, stocked it with top-to-bottom arena-slash-convertible rock reminiscent of the opening of an ’80s movie shot in a high school parking lot establishing […]
You know Seth MacFarlane’s voice. You’ve heard it a million times as Peter, Brian, and Stewie Griffin. Or maybe as Stan and Roger Smith on “American Dad!” Or maybe as the eponymous bear from the Ted movies. If you’ve seen a Seth MacFarlane vehicle, you’ve not only heard his voice plenty, but you know that […]
Ruston Kelly was in the middle of a years-long existential crisis when he left his own body and watched himself sitting at his piano. An astral projection. He was sober, clean from drugs for a few years. An apparition approached him while he floated. It was Jesus. As the figure came closer to Kelly, the […]
Even in our post-genre era, Doja Cat remains hard to pigeonhole. Since hitting superstardom in 2019, her hits have shifted between hip-hop, pop, R&B, Afrobeat, and even indie singer-songwriter. But even with all that, I didn’t expect Vie. In the lead-up, buzz suggested Vie would be a retro pop album. And it is, but let’s […]
Chris Cuffaro here tells Matt Thompson how he captured this band as the sonic storm was set to break. The shoot came through SPIN. I got a studio at the lot on A&M Records. I walked into the studio at the lot, looked around, and said, “OK, we’ve got a gray backdrop, a black backdrop; […]
Although official numbers are still being confirmed, Zach Bryan broke the record for largest U.S. concert last night (Sept. 27) in front of 112,000 fans at Michigan Stadium on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Mi., just edging out the 110,905 mark set by George Strait in 2024 in College Station, Tx. “This […]
Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder revived his side band, Earthlings, for the first time in two years last night (Sept. 26) to close the first night of his annual Ohana festival in Dana Point, Ca. The group, which also features guitarists Andrew Watt, Josh Klinghoffer and Glen Hansard, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith […]
Name X Ambassadors (Intro completed by Sam Nelson Harris) Best known for My moustache. Current city Los Angeles. Really want to be in A cabin in the woods learning how to be a cobbler or some shit because the entertainment industry is sooo wacky and I often wanna run away from it all. (But who am I kidding? I’d […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. On later Cure albums, Robert Smith’s songs started getting longer, and so did the instrumental intros, with the band frequently establishing a groove for a minute or two before Smith begins to […]
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt, Tom Stern’s bio-doc chronicling the chaotic yet culturally significant career of San Antonio, Texas’ Butthole Surfers, was much-lauded at South By Southwest earlier this year for its revelatory examination of the band—which lives up to its title with a humorous, heartfelt, and unflinchingly honest approach. It’s also […]