Matt Healy of the 1975 revealed his struggles with heroin addiction during an interview today (Oct. 12) with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, admitting that he required a stint in rehab for the problem. [embedded content][embedded content] Healy said his bandmates sat him down for an intervention of sorts during work on The 1975’s 2018 album […]
Being Funny in a Foreign Language is the sound of the 1975 no longer selling their own myth. They sound relieved. After a decade of playing the self-referential and pop-minded rock band – frontman Matty Healy’s famous “a millennial that baby-boomers like” lyric can still summarize why people love and hate him – the British […]
The 1975 have shared another new single off their forthcoming, previously reported, Being Funny In A Foreign Language. The release of “All I Need To Hear” is accompanied by a Samuel Bradley-directed live performance video that was recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in the U.K. [embedded content][embedded content] While talking to Apple Music 1 […]
Last month, British pop rock band the 1975 announced that their new album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language, will be released on Oct. 14. So far, the band has shared the tracklisting and its first single, “Part of the Band.” Today, the Matty Healy-led group released a new video for “Happiness.” [embedded content][embedded content] […]
For much of the last quarter-century, Vagrant Records has been synonymous with the emo and alternative scenes. Much like how Epitaph Records and Fat Wreck Chords have become well-established homes for punk, Vagrant remains one of the most significant labels in the world thanks to a catalog featuring hundreds of beloved albums and dozens of […]
For a year that made no sense, it’s only fitting that 2020’s best songs make strange neighbors on a mixtape. You can’t recap 2020 without mentioning Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP,” a sex song so dirty that even the edited version leans toward an R rating (“wet and gushy,” anyone?). But on this […]
More than 700 members of the UK music industry, including artists, managers, record label execs, agents, songwriters and producers, have joined forces and signed an open letter vowing to combat hate. “In recent months through a series of events and incidents, the anti-black racists and antisemites, plus those who advocate islamophobia, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia, have […]
Rock is obvs not dead but it’s not hard to see why people always say it is, almost wishfully. For decades, the most commercially viable (and even critically bolstered) rock was dominated by white dudes, which is troublesome considering how many of its pioneers, including the dearly departed, radically queer genius Little Richard, were not. […]
Why now? Because — and there’s no reason to ignore the elephant in the room: SPIN stewardship has changed hands many, many times since we made the online jump — we got our chance. Because plenty of our favorite albums of the last 10 years could still use a boost. Because some of the already unanimously […]
Right, the 1975. I’m dating someone who said, “don’t forget to mention that they’re annoying.” How do you forget anything with this band really; their every maneuver comes with a flashing neon sign that reads “this is the Britpop power ballad” or “tracks 9-12 listened to too much M83 (which is any at all, really).” […]