“Sorry, I was thinking about something else.” These are the first words you hear on the Beths’ latest, Straight Line Was A Lie, apologizing for the opening track’s false start. At first, it feels like a cute, self-deprecating peek behind the curtain from the celebrated New Zealand band, but upon reflection, it’s actually a fitting…
Cha Wa is a traditional Mardi Gras Indians greeting in New Orleans that means “here we come” or “we’re comin’ for ya.” Appropriately, a hearty shout of “CHA WA!” is the first thing I hear out of “Spyboy” Irving “Honey” Banister Jr.’s mouth when he and two of his bandmates appear on my Zoom screen….
*SPIN helped curate the soundtrack to this film. About a month and a half ago, a friend of mine I’ve known since seventh grade died unexpectedly. I immediately called our mutual friend, Bryan, to tell him the bad news, and we grieved together. So, when I watched filmmaker Brian Brightly’s new independent film, The Wake,…
Without calling Donald Trump out by name, Neil Young tees off on the U.S. government’s recent mobilization of National Guard troops into Washington, D.C., in a new song, “Big Crime,” which he debuted last night (Aug. 27) in Chicago and has since posted a soundcheck recording of on his web site. “No more great again…
After surprising fans earlier this month with a drop of 17 new singles, Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams has collected the tracks into a proper album dubbed Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party. The project is available now digitally and can also be pre-ordered on vinyl ahead of a Nov. 7 release date. A limited run of…
Some of the biggest names in music will head south next spring as part of Lollapalooza festival visits to Chile, Argentina and Brazil, including Sabrina Carpenter, Tyler, the Creator, Chappell Roan, Deftones, Skrillex, Lorde and Doechii. The events will be simultaneously held March 13-15, 2026, at Parque O’Higgins in Santiago and Hippodromo de San Isidro…
86-year-old legend Mavis Staples has rounded up a star-studded cast of collaborators for her new album, Sad and Beautiful World, arriving Nov. 7 from Anti-. The Brad Cook-produced project is led by Staples’ covers of Frank Ocean’s “Godspeed” and Kevin Morby’s “Beautiful Strangers,” the latter of which was written in tribute to victims of the…
Tom Hanks made his directing debut in 1996 with That Thing You Do!, a fictional saga of a one-hit-wonder 1960s band punningly called the Wonders. The title song, written by Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, captures the ’60s zeitgeist in a tidy two minutes and 43 seconds. But Hanks chose it after a wide audition….
Somewhere deep in the archives of the lime-green, forum-shaped headquarters of Mutato Muzika, Mark Mothersbaugh is digging up the distant past. The building houses his music production company on the Sunset Strip, but also the entire recorded history of Devo, the groundbreaking art-punk new wave band he co-founded with Jerry Casale back in the 1970s….
Home is a feeling. Home can be a mountain, an island, a stranger’s home where you’re welcomed like family. Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known as Bad Bunny, decided he’s homebound for the summer. During prime festival and touring season, the megastar—whose latest album Debí Tirar Más Fotos (I Should Have Taken More Photos) hit…
