My Chemical Romance will perform at three major U.S. festivals next year promoted by Danny Wimmer Presents, including Welcome to Rockville in Daytona Beach, Fl., Sonic Temple in Columbus, Oh., and Louder Than Life on a September date to be announced in Louisville, Ky. The news was conveyed via the main stage video screens at…
In 2005, what began as a modest multi-venue, fan-driven punk event in Chicago has morphed into a large-scale outdoor event that continues to mark its territory as one of the most impressive independent music fests in the country. Over the years, it’s ballooned in popularity thanks to its anything goes and everything happens here reputation….
As a member of the hardcore outfit the Armed and the atmospheric jazz collective Fuubutsushi, Patrick Shiroishi has proven that he can handle both aggressive thrash and evocative ambience with finesse. For his latest solo project, he balances both, and creates something fraught and angry, yet strangely serene. Forgetting Is Violent begins with a voice…
On the heels of a collaboration at the MTV Video Music Awards, rising U.K. star YUNGBLUD and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Aerosmith are crossing the generational divide again with a five-song EP, One More Time, which will be released by Capitol on Nov. 21. The lead single, “My Only Angel,” is out now….
Taylor Swift fans will descend on cinemas worldwide next month for release party events tied to her new album, The Life of a Showgirl. The Oct. 3-5 screenings are dubbed Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of Showgirl and will include an 89-minute program led by the unseen “The Fate of Ophelia” video. Describing the happenings…
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Bob Dylan’s sixth album Highway 61 Revisited, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary, opens with the landmark single “Like a Rolling Stone.” The song that follows it on the album, “Tombstone Blues,”…
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For years, guitarist Jon Fadem has been the kind of musician that other musicians notice. Whether leading the charge onstage with his long-running Talking Heads tribute Start Making Sense or trading licks with legends like Parliament/Funkadelic’s George Clinton and Bernie Worrell, Buddy Miles, or Sly and the Family Stone’s Larry Graham, his playing has always…
Millions of years ago, a group of monstrous warriors from outer space was banished to Earth, where they proceeded to decimate the dinosaur population, fornicate with apes, and ultimately, create what would come to be the human race. These “Scumdogs of the Universe,” as they call themselves, were then frozen in Antarctica some time during…
Artists both familiar and new will be on display when NBC’s Saturday Night Live returns for its 51st season this fall. Bad Bunny will serve as host and Doja Cat as musical guest for the debut episode on Oct. 4. Bunny is about to wrap a historic residency in his home country of Puerto Rico…
