Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw festival will once again feature a truly eclectic lineup when it descends on Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium on Nov. 15-16. Beyond the artist himself, the bill will be led by A$AP Rocky, Childish Gambino, Clipse and Doechii. Also set to appear at the 11th edition of the festival are…
Banjo virtuosos Steve Martin and Alison Brown have come together for their first collaborative album, Safe, Sensible and Sane, which will be released Oct. 17 on Compass Records. First single “Dear Time” featuring Jackson Browne and Jeff Hanna is out now in tandem with an accompanying music video filmed at Los Angeles’ Troubadour club. “With…
Name Geoff Wilkinson Best known for If you’ve never met me—“Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia).” If you have met me—my natural wit and charm, of course! Current city London. Really want to be in London (although like most Brits I still dream of living next to the sea—we do live on an island after all). Excited about The new (all instrumental) Us3…
Some songs feel like silk sheets slipping off your shoulders—Good Thing is not that song. Slay Raché’s latest release doesn’t whisper; it stares you down, wipes its tears, and walks out the door in slow motion. After sending late-night pulses with her last single “After Hours,” the genre-blurring artist returns with “Good Thing,” a track…
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. In the constantly shifting landscape of popular music, headliners and opening acts can trade places in the space of just a couple of years. In fact, that’s exactly what happened to a…
Mastodon co-founder/guitarist Brent Hinds died last night (Aug. 20) after his motorcycle was hit by a car in Atlanta. The musician, who left the band under tumulttous circumstances in March, was 51. Hinds was reportedly struck by a BMV SVU that failed to yield at an intersection. Local police are investigating the accident. In announcing…
About 18 months ago, violinist-composer-singer Lili Haydn sent me a kind text: our dear friend, the irrepressible singer-songwriter Angela McCluskey, had suffered a massive heart attack and was in a coma from which she likely wouldn’t wake. The next day, we lost her. My first thought was of pianist Paul Cantelon, Angela’s husband of more…
The Replacements’ third album, Let It Be, will be back in stores in deluxe form on Oct. 24, a few months after the 41st anniversary of its release. The Rhino project includes four LPs and three CDs that help trace the evolution of the material on Let It Be, which has long been regarded as…
When Erica Fox first thought about turning her passion of playing guitar into a career, she planned on doing so with her own original music as an artist. But while that may still be in the cards one day, she’s carved out quite a name for herself as a session musician and touring guitarist for…
As tipped here last week, Florence + the Machine will return with a new album, Everybody Scream, appropriately due for release by Republic on Halloween (Oct. 31). The project’s title track is out now in tandem with a video directed by Autumn De Wilde. The Florence Welch-led group previously teased a clip of the video…
