*SPIN helped curate the soundtrack to this film. About a month and a half ago, a friend of mine I’ve known since seventh grade died unexpectedly. I immediately called our mutual friend, Bryan, to tell him the bad news, and we grieved together. So, when I watched filmmaker Brian Brightly’s new independent film, The Wake, […]
“Sorry, I was thinking about something else.” These are the first words you hear on the Beths’ latest, Straight Line Was A Lie, apologizing for the opening track’s false start. At first, it feels like a cute, self-deprecating peek behind the curtain from the celebrated New Zealand band, but upon reflection, it’s actually a fitting […]
In the middle of a rainstorm in Miami, Mau y Ricky are finding shelter in the place where they feel most at home—the recording studio. After nearly a decade of penning multi-platinum hits for themselves and other artists, the Latin superstars are opening a new door to more creative control with their EP La Llave, […]
Bon Jovi have rounded up a deep roster of special guests for an updated version of their 2024 album Forever, which will reappear Oct. 24 via Island in a new Legendary Edition. A new single, “Red, White and Jersey” is out on Friday (Aug. 29), along with a fresh take on original album closer “Hollow […]
There’s a distinct lack of synchronicity in the Police camp. Per U.K. reports, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland are suing vocalist/bassist Sting in London’s High Court under the “general commercial contracts and arrangements” category, claiming they are owed millions in royalties. The specific details of the filing have not been made public, but […]
Tom Hanks made his directing debut in 1996 with That Thing You Do!, a fictional saga of a one-hit-wonder 1960s band punningly called the Wonders. The title song, written by Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, captures the ’60s zeitgeist in a tidy two minutes and 43 seconds. But Hanks chose it after a wide audition. […]
86-year-old legend Mavis Staples has rounded up a star-studded cast of collaborators for her new album, Sad and Beautiful World, arriving Nov. 7 from Anti-. The Brad Cook-produced project is led by Staples’ covers of Frank Ocean’s “Godspeed” and Kevin Morby’s “Beautiful Strangers,” the latter of which was written in tribute to victims of the […]
Somewhere deep in the archives of the lime-green, forum-shaped headquarters of Mutato Muzika, Mark Mothersbaugh is digging up the distant past. The building houses his music production company on the Sunset Strip, but also the entire recorded history of Devo, the groundbreaking art-punk new wave band he co-founded with Jerry Casale back in the 1970s. […]
Frederick Mark Linkous was born into a family of coal miners in Virginia in 1962, and in the ’80s he moved to New York City and then to Los Angeles in search of success in the music industry. Linkous’s gift for riffs and hooks is readily apparent in the two albums he recorded as the […]
A day ahead of the launch of their fall tour with Pixies in Santa Ana, Ca., Spoon has treated fans to a new double A-sided single featuring the songs “Chateau Blues” and “Guess I’m Fallin in Love.” Here both below. The tracks emerged from summer recording sessions for the follow-up to 2022’s Grammy-nominated Lucifer on […]