On March 19, SPIN Magazine turned 40, marking four decades of redefining music and cultural journalism. Launched in 1985 by Bob Guccione, Jr., SPIN didn’t just cover music — it challenged the status quo, reshaped how artists were covered, and ultimately became the voice of a generation. At a time when the field was crowded…
Sabrina Carpenter, Hozier, Doja Cat, Luke Combs, the Strokes, John Summit, Doechii, Feid and Cage the Elephant lead the bill for the 2025 installment of the Austin City Limits festival, which will be held in Zilker Park from Oct. 3-5 and Oct. 10-12. The bill will also feature Modest Mouse, Japanest Breakfast, T-Pain, Empire of…
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Named after his group’s hit 1986 collaboration with Aerosmith, Run-D.M.C.’s Daryl “DMC” McDaniels’ Walk This Way fundraiser will be held May 17 at Pier 45 in New York’s Hudson River Park. Proceeds from the 5K walkathon will benefit the Felix Organization, a nonprofit supporting children in New York’s foster care system. Beyond the 5K, the…
Moments after arriving at the Met Gala in New York tonight (May 5) wearing “a bespoke piano creation” by Burberry in collaboration with his own benji bixby fashion line, André 3000 has released a seven-track, 16-minute collection of music, 7 piano sketches. The Epic project follows his Grammy-nominated 2023 album New Blue Sun, which found…
Buoyed by their first No. 1 U.K. album in 26 years, veteran rock outfit James will perform their beloved 1993 album Laid in its entirety for the first time on a fall North American tour, kicking off Sept. 3 in Atlanta. The trek will wind its way west before wrapping Oct. 5 in Vancouver. Sprinkled…
Suzanne Vega is solely responsible for why so many of my Gen X contemporaries named their firstborn “Luka,” after her 1987 song of the same name. When Vega joins me via video call, I share this anecdote with her, but she doesn’t seem impressed. “It’s a little early in the morning for me,” she says,…
Masked Swedish rock band Ghost became the first hard rock act in four-plus years to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with SKELETÁ (Loma Vista), which shifted 86,000 copies last week to far surpass albums by SZA, Kendrick Lamar and Sabrina Carpenter. It’s the biggest opening-week haul for a rock, hard rock or…
For the man who once sang, “That was my ass you saw bouncing next to Ludacris,” Oh Smokey may come across as a more mature affair. For almost two decades, Eef Barzelay (who often records under the moniker Clem Snide) has written mordantly funny songs that thread the needle between the heartbreaking and the profane….
The first time the members of Goose realized that some of their heroes noticed what they were doing happened one night on the road in 2019. They were in the van, driving overnight back home to Connecticut, as keyboardist Peter Anspach plugged his headphones into the Apple Music show Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig. More…
