This new series highlights on-the-record conversations that didn’t make it into the published feature, with text directly lifted directly from the transcript. Anything off the record remains off the record. By the time I interviewed Ace for his February 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without feature, the weekly series was in its third year. He […]
The history of recorded music is not long. There are records available from the very earliest days of sound reproduction, which in its familiar form was invented by some guy named Edison in New Jersey. If your favorite band is or was Bon Jovi, it’s possible that one of Bon Jovi’s great-grandparents was alive when […]
Though Boris has been steadily releasing albums since 1996, there will always be a before and after Pink for the band. Formed in Tokyo in 1992, Boris has released 29 studio albums, 14 EPs, and seven live albums since its inception. However, Pink remains their zenith, a sprawling 47-minute masterwork that marries sludge metal with […]
Sometimes you have to blow things up and start over again to some degree, even if things were working in the first place. A fresh start, a blank canvas, can inspire the creative process like the first time. But does it count as starting over if you’re doing it with your day-ones? Besphrenz, the genre-defying […]
If you’ve been wondering what Of Monsters and Men have been up to in the six years since their last album, the answer is: a lot. The Icelandic folk-rock group released a documentary, Tíu, and an accompanying EP in 2023 to mark the 10th anniversary of their debut, My Head Is an Animal. In the […]
Rock stars from throughout the past 50 years have joined to pay tribute to influential KISS guitarist Ace Frehley, who died yesterday (Oct. 16) at the age of 74. The musician suffered a brain injury after falling in his recording studio last month and had been breathing with the aid of a ventilator in recent […]
Alex Gaskarth, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for pop-punk band All Time Low, says the group’s new album, Everyone’s Talking, out October 17, was inspired by the 20th anniversary shows they were playing in 2024. “There was such an outpouring of love and support from the fans, and that invigorated us to start writing new […]
Name Anton Newcombe Current City I live in Berlin and have my studio [there]. Really want to be in I’m one of those people that looks at property listings in Sweden and Norway on the ocean or lakes and thinks, “I could afford this…I don’t need people.” Excited about I’m excited to finish our tour; Canada, U.S.A., Mexico, then South […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. MTV premiered on August 1, 1981, and four different videos by Split Enz aired on the channel in its first 24 hours. The New Zealand band had only made its Hot 100 […]
The city of Golden Sands may not actually exist, but it still has a weird and wonderful TV station. Programme 4 broadcasts commercials for local restaurants like Ramon’s Venetian Room (with new pleather-bound menus) and local businesses like Browner Carpeting (check out their floor-to-ceiling garage shag). There are ads for the annual Starving Artist Mathis […]