Phish leader Trey Anastasio is among the many musicians saluting the life of Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir, who died Saturday (Jan. 10) at the age of 78. Anastasio played on several occasions with Weir over the past 30-plus years, the most high-profile of which was at the Dead’s 50th anniversary Fare Thee Well concerts…
Roxanne Shanté is listening to her Juice Crew partner Masta Ace talk about RZA’s upcoming EP, Juice Crew, when she has an a-ha moment. Unbeknownst to her, RZA had started the project years ago to accompany the 2017 release of the Shanté biopic Roxanne Roxanne. Suddenly it all clicked. Song titles like “Single Mothers,” “Lolita,”…
Dry Cleaning singer Florence Shaw likes to keep some distance between her vocals and the rest of the band. Shaw’s curious confidences, spoken-word confessions, and bemused monologues appear to have only a passing relationship to the propulsive rhythms and brittle riffs that frame them. That dissonance can be striking at first, but it grows restrictive–stark…
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…
