When four esteemed underground music veterans joined forces in 1997 to record their Thrill Jockey debut album as Pullman, their entirely acoustic, overdub-free sound was a surprising but welcome contrast to the vastly more experimental work that Ken (formerly Bundy K.) Brown, Doug McCombs, Chris Brokaw and Curtis Harvey had been making for years in…
Bob Weir, who joined the Grateful Dead on guitar and vocals at the age of 16 and then spent the next 60 years helping shepherd its legacy, died today (Jan. 10) at the age of 78. According to a social media post from his family, the jam band legend was diagnosed with cancer in July…
Long before social media, the multimedia performance poet John Giorno, once the toast of New York City’s underground spanning Andy Warhol’s Factory, the punk rock revolution and the Beat Generation, created a free zone of radical poets and socio-political activists available at the end of a phone line — Dial-A-Poem. Beginning in 1969, Giorno offered…
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Ben Stiller’s directorial debut Reality Bites spun off one of the biggest soundtrack albums of 1994, arguably overshadowing the Gen X rom com’s modest box office profits. The compilation sold more than…
Megan Moroney gets a lift from Ed Sheeran (on the song “I Only Miss You”) and Kacey Musgraves (on “Bells & Whistles”) on her upcoming album, Cloud 9, which will be released Feb. 20 by Sony Music Nashville/Columbia. The artist broke the news in a video to fans, which can be seen below. The 15-track…
“Every time I want to stop, I remember there’s someone somewhere who is silently inspired by the things I do and that motivates me to keep going.” – Victoria Ibek If you ask emerging vocalist, songwriter and beat maker Victoria Ibek what her favorite music genre is, she’ll tell you she’s a #1 fan of…
Happy New Year, friends and colleagues. Hope you had a meaningful holiday. I took some downtime to unplug, travel, and think deeply about the future I want to create. 2026 is already shaping up to be a wild ride. A few signals that are hard to ignore: America’s 250th anniversary The FIFA World Cup Grand…
Name The Bloody Beetroots Best known for People call me “the baddest man in electronic music.” I answer to Bob. I also cook. Current city I live on the road, but I land in two places: Bassano del Grappa (Italy) and Los Angeles, where my team runs base. Really want to be in One day I’ll open Bob’s—a beachside shack in the Balearics. I’ll serve…
When not busy bashing his former Smiths bandmates, making controversial statements about immigration and terrorism and canceling or postponing some 200 shows in the past decade-plus, Morrissey has found time to complete his first album in nearly six years, Make-Up Is a Lie. It will be released Feb. 27 through Sire, to which the Smiths…
One of the most intriguing and unexpected current-day musical phenomena is the popularity of tiki, or exotica, a style of music dating back to the mid-20th century. Exotica is quintessentially American — the perfect soundtrack for cocktail hour. In its original quirky run, exotica’s leading lights included Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, and Juan García Esquivel….
