Melinda Duterte’s Jay Som project gets a lift from Paramore’s Hayley Williams and Jimmy Eat World’s Jim Adkins on Belong, her first new album in six years. The 11-track project will be released Oct. 10 through Polyvinyl Record Co. and is led by the Adkins-featuring “Float” and fellow new song “A Million Reasons Why.” Since…
The great British film director Alfred Hitchcock, who, if he didn’t invent the modern thriller certainly set the mold, once said: “A star is someone the camera loves.” And by that definition alone Alexa Dark is a star. And Spanish-American Alexa would particularly like that assertion, because her music — for which she is definitely…
Wedding comedy with difficult subject matter is serious business. It takes a deft hand to craft a film that intertwines laughter with trauma without coming off as insulting or pandering. Recent films such as Amsterdam (2022) and Don’t Look Up (2021), despite being made by skilled directors David O. Russell and Adam McKay, tried to…
At this point, I’m sure everyone reading this site is familiar with Mdou Moctar; our own AcidJack posted a killer recording of him from the 2017 Hopscotch fest. His version of Saharan folk music meets the unbridled shred of VH’s “Eruption” has caught the ears of curious listeners everywhere. I’ve seen them many times, and…
2000s era New York rock outfit the Rapture will return to the live stage later this year for their first tour since 2012 and first shows of any kind since four California-area one-offs in 2020. The trek will begin Sept. 16 in Minneapolis and run through Nov. 23 in Barcelona; click here for tickets, which…
It’s an uncharacteristically cold, gray day in Los Angeles, which doesn’t seem to bother Moby. He’s up early and ready to talk, and no subject appears to be off limits. Born Richard Melville Hall in New York City on September 11, 1965, Moby is the only child of Elizabeth McBride and James Frederick Hall, a…
Curtis Jackson III was born in Queens, New York, on July 6, 1975. In the late ’90s, he began his rap career as 50 Cent, and made friends and enemies all over Queens, recording with Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay, opening shows for Nas, feuding with another up-and-coming rapper, Ja Rule, and getting on the wrong…
It started in a smoky trap house in East Oakland, teens banging on a table, freestyling about scrounging up enough cash to buy a twenty sack. A chant: “I got five on it.” More from Spin: Pearl Jam Drummer Matt Cameron Steps Down From Band Every 50 Cent Album, Ranked Sabrina Carpenter Stays ‘Hungry’ With…
In a stunning development, drummer Matt Cameron, who joined Pearl Jam in 1998 shortly after Soundgarden split up, is stepping away from the band. In a statement posted this morning (July 7) on social media, the 62-year-old musician wrote, “after 27 fantastic years, I have taken my final steps down the drum riser for the…
It’s fun to live vicariously through musicians. They go to extremes so we don’t have to—but we love watching them do it. In recent years, music-focused films and series have inarguably cornered the documentary market. This explosion is partly thanks to streaming platforms, which have turned once-niche content into mass market entertainment. Viewers who might…
