On December 5, 2025, Spotify’s Wrapped statistics showed that Bad Bunny was the most-streamed artist of the year with 19.8 billion streams. To put that into perspective, there are a little over 8 billion people in the world, and streams of Bad Bunny’s music more than double the global population. His popularity shouldn’t come as […]
Since Record Store Day’s debut in April 2008, its annual celebration of vinyl and the culture of independently owned record stores has only grown wilder: from its start in the U.S. to becoming an international event; from being held one day in April to the inclusion of a second event on Black Friday; from hosting […]
Whatever expectation or preconception exists around Chet Faker—whether through his recorded music or onstage—the individual behind it, born Nick Murphy, is consistently unexpected and disarming. When I interviewed him in 2019 for his debut Nick Murphy album Run Fast Sleep Naked, he showed up carrying fresh-pressed juices in a shoulder cooler bag. Six years later, […]
“Many found the music offensive, the dancing objectionable, and the popularity of both with young people verging on a mental health crisis.” So writes music historian Susan C. Cook about ragtime, the heavily syncopated ancestor of jazz that arose in the late 1800s. Like all things, ragtime’s subversiveness faded over time, and, a century later, […]
Puscifer is not like other bands. Not even like other bands fronted by the same man. Maynard James Keenan has spent the last three decades presiding over the muscular alt-metal of Tool and the inventive hard rock of A Perfect Circle—all of it to great success—but reveals a different side of himself as master of […]
Bad Bunny made history yet again as the first Super Bowl Halftime Show headliner to perform entirely in Spanish tonight (Feb. 8) at Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco, welcoming surprise guests Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin for an homage to the sounds and sights of his native Puerto Rico. The eight-song performance began in a […]
The contents of a life-changing spray bottle are at the center of Taylor Swift’s new “Opalite” video, in which she portrays a woman searching for happiness while living with a pet rock. The clip can also be streamed on Spotify and Apple Music for the first 48 hours, after which it will be available on […]
Tame Impala brings new life to its hit song “Dracula” with a remix featuring BLACKPINK member Jennie, the Julian Klincewicz-directed lyric video for which can be seen below. The original version, from the Kevin Parker-led project’s latest Columbia album Deadbeat, hit No. 1 on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart earlier this week. “Hey, Kevin, what’s up? […]
Name Tom Lea, violist from Vitamin String Quartet Best known for Being a lovable classically trained viola player who loves ‘90s hip-hop and all things soulful. Current city Los Angeles. Really want to be in Anywhere in Japan. I haven’t been there since I was touring with my old band Rhye in 2018 and I really cannot wait to […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Warren Zevon kicked around the music industry for a decade before becoming a star. He wrote commercial jingles and songs for the Turtles and Murray McLauchlan, played in Phil Everly’s band, and […]