For music hounds, every day is Record Store Day, especially at the end of the week after you get your paycheck. And while those who live that milkcrate life likely akin the official RSD to going out drinking on St. Patrick’s Day, the fact there are two dates attached to this shopper’s holiday proves how…
Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold once lost a high school talent show after performing an Elliott Smith cover, but audiences are sure to be more accepting of his lovely, just-released take on the late singer/songwriter’s “Angel in the Snow,” which can be found on the soundtrack to the Amazon MGM holiday movie Oh. What. Fun. As previously…
Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska has been getting a lot of attention lately, with the Scott Cooper-helmed biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere and Nebraska ‘82: Expanded Edition both released in October. In 1984, Springsteen released Born in the U.S.A., Springsteen’s first political album, a commentary on national identity, disillusionment, and patriotism through the eyes of Vietnam…
Is this real life, or just fantasy? That’s the blurry line Charli xcx navigates in the trailer for her new film The Moment, in which she portrays a thinly veiled version of her arena-filling, pop star self. The movie will be released in theaters Jan. 26 by A24 and is the first from the artist’s…
Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist Gary “Mani” Mounfield has died at the age of 63, according to a social media post from his brother. No cause was provided. Mounfield’s bass work helped propel the Stone Roses out of the post-Smiths-era Manchester, England, several years before the Britpop revolution made superstars out of Oasis, Blur…
If you were to have asked late Sugar Hill Records co-founder Sylvia Robinson who helped put hip-hop—a genre traditionally dominated by men—on the map, she would have justifiably raised her hand. Robinson, who passed away in 2011, was largely responsible for hip-hop’s first Top 40 single, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugar Hill Gang (1979), as…
This is a new ongoing series about the business of music with a SPIN twist. There’s a new headliner in the music business, and it’s not on stage. It’s in the wings, in a tailored suit, with a checkbook bigger than the tour budget. Over the last decade, the most unexpected disruptor in music hasn’t…
Trance legends Above & Beyond culminated their US tour at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountainview, CA with a celebration of their album release and the announcement of their forthcoming flagship show location: Above & Beyond Group Therapy 700 at The Gorge. A&B have a rich history at The Gorge, previously holding their milestone ABGT250 in 2017,…
** A highly eclectic lineup of pop and alternative acts will assemble July 30-Aug. 2 in St. Charles, Ia., for the 11th Hinterland Music Festival, including headliners KATSEYE, Lorde, Mumford & Sons and Kali Uchis. The undercard offers Jessie Murph, Santigold, MUNA, beabadoobee, Geese, Wet Leg, Suki Waterhouse, the Format, CMAT and Jane Remover. The…
David Byrne re-teams with one of his favorite collaborators, Brian Eno, on the new single “T Shirt,” which the pair co-wrote. “T Shirt” didn’t make the cut for Byrne’s latest album, Who Is the Sky?, but has been played nearly every night on the in-progress tour in support of it. The song also features piano…
