Over the week my mother was dying, I listened to Boy George’s second solo album, Tense Nervous Headache, every night after coming home from the hospital. Locked in my bathroom, sitting on the floor, my 21-year-old self needed at least one full playthrough to help process what was happening. Less than a year later, still […]
She’s back! Taylor Swift has announced a new album, The Life of a Showgirl, and has begun taking pre-orders for it on her web site, but it seems more information will have to wait until her appearance tomorrow (Aug. 13) on boyfriend Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast. The news follows a day of teases on […]
Florence + the Machine are teasing new music on social media, including a spooky clip in which singer Florence Welch, clad in a red dress, digs a hole in a windy, desolate soundscape. She later emits three visceral screams, apparently upon seeing what’s inside. Welch and company’s last new album, Dance Fever, came out in […]
Maye Osorio couldn’t sleep. One day, while buying a yoga mat at the Grand Central Market’s Bazaar in Downtown Los Angeles, she found out why. “I had a meeting that day in that building, and I saw a lady who was selling yoga mats, so I went up to her and she just started reading […]
As I walk into Yellow Racket Records at 2311 E. Main Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Destroyer is playing over the loudspeakers. Ben VanderHart, the founder and creative director of the store, is sitting at a table in the Listening Room, a space situated in the next room over from the main store area, where listening […]
Name Will Anderson Best known for My music-related videos that you’ve probably skipped past on your feed at some point. Current city Nashville, TN. Really want to be in Anywhere I can drink coffee and eat pizza near a beach with my dogs. Excited about My new album How Little Love Is / How Worth Everything. My current music collection has […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Composer and arranger Boris “Lalo” Schifrin died in June at the age of 93, leaving behind a remarkable body of work. Schifrin was born in Argentina, studied music at a conservatory in […]
Primus pulled in an eclectic list of surprise guests for its show last night (Aug. 6) at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre, welcoming Tool drummer Danny Carey and bassist Justin Chancellor, opening act Ty Segall, South Park co-creator Matt Stone, comedian Bill Burr and bass virtuoso MonoNeon onstage at various points. Chancellor and Burr (on drums) […]
“Now I think you can stay there. It’s like an Airbnb now,” says filmmaker Amy Berg about the now-famous house where musician Jeff Buckley lived during his three-month stay in Memphis, the city he retreated to after the release of Grace to work on his second album, My Sweetheart the Drunk. Buckley’s time there was […]
Netflix syndrome. Most of us suffer from it, even if we’ve never heard of it. It’s the phenomenon of spending massive amounts of time scrolling through online content, trying to choose what you want to watch. But rather than making a decision, you become frustrated and overwhelmed, settling on watching something you don’t really want […]