“You’re going to wear this to the show? You’re going to wear the shirt of the band you’re going to see? Don’t be that guy.” These words have had a longer legacy in the world of music fandom than many bands. They were said by the character Droz played by Jeremy Piven, in the cult…
In person, Ghostface Killah isn’t as intimidating as his name suggests. While he’s tall and somewhat imposing, there’s a gentle soul behind his eyes. As a member of one of hip-hop’s greatest and most successful groups, the almighty Wu-Tang Clan, he’s accustomed to accolades and automatic respect but at the same time he has a…
Name Billy Hamilton Best known for The bassist of Silverstein, collector of vinyl records. More from Spin: Rental Vans, Corn Nuts, and the Open Road: Emo Darlings Macseal Headlining First Tour Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe Ponders Peace and Human Potential in New Book Bartees Strange Makes Listeners Face His Fears (and Hopefully Their Own) Current city Toronto,…
Touring coast to coast? A big step. As headliners? Huge deal. But what really makes this tour unique for the indie rockers in Macseal? “It’s the first one that we didn’t book ourselves,” laughs one of the band’s vocalists and guitarists, Cole Szilagyi. That’s a solid milestone for a band that’s been at it since…
Dolly Parton, Lainey Wilson, Orville Peck, Dasha and Jackson Dean are among the special guests on Australian children’s group the Wiggles’ upcoming country album, Wiggle Up, Giddy Up!, which will be released March 7. The Parton-penned “Friends” and a rework of her classic “9 to 5,” here dubbed “Counting 1 to 5,” are both available…
Randy Blythe is best known as the lead singer for Lamb of God. With the five-time Grammy-nominated metal band from Richmond, Virginia, he has released nine studio albums, beginning with 2009’s Wraith. Every Lamb of God release has charted in ten countries; 2022’s Omens reached #15 on the Billboard 200. Blythe is also a best-selling…
When Bartees Strange took the stage at The Paramount in L.A.’s historic Boyle Heights neighborhood on February 13th, he was quick to let the audience know exactly where he’s at. “I worked on this album for three-and-a-half years and it drove me a little insane,” he opens with, “It feels good to have it coming…
Jimmy Page was a guitarist in the Yardbirds and one of the busiest session musicians in London in the mid-‘60s when he first proposed forming a group of his own with the Who’s rhythm section—and legend has it that Keith Moon joked that the band would go down “like a lead balloon.” In 1968, Page…
Picture this: It’s the first Friday of May. Los Angeles’ subtle winter gloom has melted away to reveal brilliant blue skies, and the long-awaited 75-degree heat is beckoning you relentlessly toward the beach. You put your phone on “Do Not Disturb” and slip it in your pocket. Suddenly, your only craving is for a watermelon…
She’s the face of Lucky Brands and Eterne, and taking off as a model, but what she really wants to do is write screenplays. And she already has. “I’ve finished a sci-fi screenplay but it’s sort of extreme — kind of a super bigtime sci-fi, so I feel I need to do some smaller stuff…
