Each week, SPIN digs into the catalog of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The second half of the two-part documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes is out on HBO Max today, July 25. And while Joel was one of the biggest singles artists of…
In 1985, SPIN founder Bob Guccione Jr. had an idea to create a new music magazine focused on covering alternative, college rock, hip-hop and different underground music scenes in a younger, more rebellious voice. Over the past four decades, SPIN hasn’t just been a platform to provide emerging artists with a mainstream audience; it’s been…
Slipknot is bolstering its acclaimed self-titled 1999 debut album as part of a massive 25th anniversary reissue that will arrive Sept. 5 through Roadrunner. The first taste of the project is a previously unreleased demo of “Prosthetics,” which the masked, Iowa-reared hard rock band put to tape before album sessions with longtine producer Ross Robinson….
Chappell Roan will complete a touring victory lap this fall with newly announced shows in New York, Kansas City, Mo., and Los Angeles, all while teasing a new single, “The Subway,” for release on Aug. 1 through Island. The artist will visit Forest Hills Stadium on Sept. 20-21, 23-24, Kansas City’s Museum and Memorial Park…
On a sweltering midsummer day in New York City, J Balvin is being chauffeured to a promotional stop for his new album Mixteip, released July 17. In the past decade, the Colombian superstar is often credited as catapulting reggaeton back into the mainstream while introducing Latin music to new places and massive stages. At 40,…
Michael “Fitz” Fitzpatrick is on vacation with his family, which includes three young sons. It’s a brief getaway for the Fitz and the Tantrums frontperson, coming just ahead of the release of the band’s sixth album, Man on the Moon, and a 31-date headlining summer tour. “So much testosterone and shitty listening,” he says of…
The self-titled 1973 album released by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks before they joined Fleetwood Mac will be reissued Sept. 19 by Rhino after being out of print and embroiled in rights issues for nearly 50 years. The long-bootlegged Buckingham Nicks is resurfacing on vinyl and will also be available digitally and on CD. The…
Days after staging what were advertised as his farewell live performances as a solo artist and with Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne died today (July 22) at the age of 76 after struggling with significant health issues for many years. “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that…
For Minelli, pop music has never just been about hits. It’s been about voice — not just the one that’s sung, but the one that tells the truth. With Mixed Feelings (opening season), the Romanian artist opens a new chapter, not by chasing the charts — though she’s more than capable of dominating them —…
Bassist Terence “Geezer” Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi, lead singer Ozzy Osbourne, and drummer Bill Ward were all between the ages of 18 and 20 when they began playing together in Birmingham. Naming themselves after an Italian horror film in early 1969, Black Sabbath recorded their self-titled debut by the end of that year. Over the…
