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How & the Why with Cypress Hill
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Deep Cut Friday: “Between a Laugh and a Tear” by John Mellencamp
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The duality of pleasure and pain, of comedy and tragedy, or of life’s highs and lows is fertile territory for songwriters. And John Mellencamp has created some great songs out of those…
Deep Cut Friday: ‘Between a Laugh and a Tear’ by John Mellencamp
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The duality of pleasure and pain, of comedy and tragedy, or of life’s highs and lows is fertile territory for songwriters. And John Mellencamp has created some great songs out of those…
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols
Name Steve Jones Best known for Swearing on the Bill Grundy Show [on December 1, 1976]. Current city London. Excited about I’m going to be touring until middle of October—all around Europe and England, then going to South America for a few dates. We end up in the States, in Dallas, and work our way all around the States. My current music collection…
John Lennon, Yoko Ono’s Early ’70s Output Compiled For Boxed Set
When John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved from London to New York in the wake of the Beatles‘ 1970 demise, they secured an unassuming one-bedroom apartment on Bank Street in New York’s Greenwich Village, immersed themselves in the thriving counterculture and lent their voices to the raging anti-war movement in opposition to the American government’s evermore deadly presence in Vietnam….
A Stellar Return: Chance the Rapper Unveils Star Line at Airbnb-Powered Adler Planetarium Experience
Chicago has a way of making music feel bigger than sound. It’s in the air, the skyline, and woven into the city’s history — and on a warm Thursday night in July, the stars were shining on the Adler Planetarium. Chance the Rapper revealed Star Line, his first album in six years, during an exclusive,…
B-Real Breaks Down How “Insane in the Brain” Made Cypress Hill Superstars
B-Real drops a bombshell mere minutes into our interview. Cypress Hill’s 1993 juggernaut, “Insane in the Brain,” was initially written as a diss track aimed at “Treat ‘Em Right” rapper Chubb Rock. Suddenly, after more than 30 years of hearing the Grammy-nominated song in heavy rotation, it was no longer perceived as just a weed…
20 Years Later, the Soundtrack of ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Still Echoes
I was 21 when Brokeback Mountain was released. I have such fond memories of going to the gay bar in my hometown of Minneapolis and dancing to bass-driven remixes of Gustavo Santaolalla’s gentle, emotive original score. Even in its house-music version, there’s an inherent sadness in these songs, and sometimes that’s the best to dance…
Daron Malakian: ‘I’m Blessed to Have Both Scars and System’
In a big empty house high in the hills near Glendale, California, Daron Malakian is singing along to an old outlaw country tune. It’s called “Waymore’s Blues,” a classic Waylon Jennings ballad from 1975. It’s a gently loping track set to acoustic guitar, organ, and a playful bass groove. The lyrics are a little bit…