Bright Eyes will play their twin 2005 albums I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn in their entirety at three special shows next summer — their first to celebrate their back catalog in this fashion. The events will take place May 6 at Red Rocks outside Denver, May 23 at…
The National’s Bryce Dessner, Nick Cave, Miley Cyrus, HUNTR/X, Wicked‘s Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood are among the musicians who received nominations today (Dec. 8) for the Golden Globe Awards, which will take place Jan. 5 live on CBS. Dessner and Cave are nominated for Best Original Song for the title…
Robert Smith has tapped a host of beloved acts for his first stint curating the lineups for the U.K.’s annual Teenage Cancer Trust charity concert series, including My Bloody Valentine, Garbage, CHVRCHES and Manic Street Preachers. The seven shows will be held at Royal Albert Hall in London beginning March 23 with Elbow and MRCY,…
The best thing that happened to pop music in recent years is that Grammy-winning songwriter Amy Allen watched that insipid Twilight saga and was revolted by the sight of the childbirth scene. This experience spurred Allen to leave “real school,” as she calls the nursing program she was enrolled in at Boston College, and go…
Artist/producer Dijon coaxed Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon back to the live stage last night (Dec. 6) during his performances on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, as the latter joined a super-sized band for the occasion also featuring Zack Villere, Nick Hakim and former Dirty Projectors vocalist Amber Coffman. Dijon contributed to Vernon’s 2025 Bon Iver comeback…
At a March Seattle gig, SML generated three epic improvisations of subtle groove science (the second piece even evoked the funky swagger of Average White Band’s “Schoolboy Crush”) and galvanic hypnosis. It was the best show this writer saw in 2025, and that it differed from the relative concision of the group’s records just proves…
The latest Warp album from the New York composer/pianist Kelly Moran, Don’t Trust Mirrors, is the culmination of six years of work, and it sounds like a definitive career statement. In retrospect, 2024’s conventionally pretty neo-classical record Moves in the Field stands as an anomaly in her catalog. Its elegant, sprightly piano pieces diverge from…
For more than a decade, Melody Prochet’s songs have drifted through dream logic — language dissolving into texture, emotion refracted through haze. Unclouded, her fourth album as Melody’s Echo Chamber and third for Domino Records, doesn’t abandon that ethereal quality thanks to the arrival of the Swedish producer/songwriter Sven Wunder, best known for the lush…
Liquid Canvas — the premier streaming art platform that transforms any smart TV into a digital gallery — has introduced its newest collection, the music-focused Black Paint on Linen series. The lineup showcases more than a dozen striking digital portraits of musical legends, from Bob Marley and Bono to David Bowie and John Coltrane, offering…
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Few bands have married the harsh clang of industrial rock to sugary pop hooks quite as deftly as Garbage. So it feels appropriate that a little of one of the band’s best…
