As I walk into Yellow Racket Records at 2311 E. Main Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Destroyer is playing over the loudspeakers. Ben VanderHart, the founder and creative director of the store, is sitting at a table in the Listening Room, a space situated in the next room over from the main store area, where listening…
Maye Osorio couldn’t sleep. One day, while buying a yoga mat at the Grand Central Market’s Bazaar in Downtown Los Angeles, she found out why. “I had a meeting that day in that building, and I saw a lady who was selling yoga mats, so I went up to her and she just started reading…
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Composer and arranger Boris “Lalo” Schifrin died in June at the age of 93, leaving behind a remarkable body of work. Schifrin was born in Argentina, studied music at a conservatory in…
Name Will Anderson Best known for My music-related videos that you’ve probably skipped past on your feed at some point. Current city Nashville, TN. Really want to be in Anywhere I can drink coffee and eat pizza near a beach with my dogs. Excited about My new album How Little Love Is / How Worth Everything. My current music collection has…
Nashville has never been short on storytellers, but few blend grit and glamour as seamlessly as Rip Gerber. His latest single, Limited Speed, takes listeners on a high-octane journey through the push-and-pull of a love moving at mismatched tempos, joined by professional race car driver Zoë Barry for the ride. In a city where slow-burn…
Acclaimed Stockholm-based artist/producer/composer Joel Danell, who records as Sven Wunder but rarely performs on his own albums, will play the first U.S. shows of his career this fall while opening for Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist on their tour in support of the just-released Alfredo 2. The trek begins Sept. 20 in Philadelphia and runs…
Primus pulled in an eclectic list of surprise guests for its show last night (Aug. 6) at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre, welcoming Tool drummer Danny Carey and bassist Justin Chancellor, opening act Ty Segall, South Park co-creator Matt Stone, comedian Bill Burr and bass virtuoso MonoNeon onstage at various points. Chancellor and Burr (on drums)…
Orchid in the Ivy’s punk rock cover of the Midnight Oil classic “Beds Are Burning” could not have come at a better time, in light of ongoing global dynamics, despite coming nearly four decades after the original. “The song explores the challenges Aboriginal Australians have faced, including the loss of land linked to developments such…
Now Hear This is a monthly A&R column that provides you with exciting new sounds we discovered through the innovative new music platform Groover. Each month, you can expect a varied bouillabaisse of songs from a vast spectrum of artists from all over the globe, regardless of genre or geography. Photo Courtesy of Hog Ryder…
“Now I think you can stay there. It’s like an Airbnb now,” says filmmaker Amy Berg about the now-famous house where musician Jeff Buckley lived during his three-month stay in Memphis, the city he retreated to after the release of Grace to work on his second album, My Sweetheart the Drunk. Buckley’s time there was…
