I remember the confusion and excitement I felt seeing “Captain” Lou Albano of the WWE (formerly called the WWF) appear in Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” music video when it premiered in December 1983. Why was a wrestling star in a Cyndi Lauper video on MTV? It turns out that Albano and…
Richard Philip Henry John Benson was not a normal person. In the mid-90s, he was a hunk Italian prog guitarist in nuts-tight denim, bare-chested beneath a black silk blazer, famous across Rome for his fretboard stunt show VHS tapes. The guitar tricks on his mail-order “instructional” videos were nearly irreplicable — dizzying two-hand tap triplets…
With his 1982 song “I Have the Touch” enjoying new visibility thanks to its inclusion in the Timothée Chalamet-starring film Marty Supreme, Peter Gabriel is turning his attention to his next studio album, o\i. The project’s lead track, “Been Undone,” can be sampled below in its Tchad Blake-helmed Dark-Side Mix. “I’m delighted to say that tonight,…
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. In ancient Greek literature, the lost city of Atlantis was a fictional island that sank into the Atlantic Ocean. In late ’70s Washington, D.C., Atlantis was briefly the namesake of a key…
Name Crispian Mills of Kula Shaker Best known for Britpop on to Lord Krishna (people are still high from that mantra shizz). Current city London, rehearsing for a tour. Really want to be in Home in Penzance, Cornwall. If I was there I would be staring out of the window at the beautiful island of St Michael’s Mount, reminding myself that the…
Horror Show is a new series uncovering the stories of artists’ experiences with the supernatural, paranormal, and unexplained—and how surviving it provided new appreciation for creating in the here and now. For many generations, the family of filmmakers Ximena and Eduardo García Lecuona has experienced a long-running phenomenon: When it’s your time to leave this…
In December of 1991, I was asked to do a photoshoot with Henry Rollins for SPIN. The majority, if not all, the photos I had seen of Henry had presented that intensity and punk-like rage he was known for. I planned to capture images that went beyond that facade while remaining true to the Rollins…
Of course you’ve missed some great stuff since 1985! A lot of you weren’t even born then! Not only has the advent of digital releases made more music available, but it has also made keeping up (whatever that means these days) increasingly impossible. So regard the following 40 recommendations as mini-subsurface maps and drill accordingly!…
As always, this year’s Miami Art Week, brought the convergence of global art fairs, cultural events, brand activations, and late-night bacchanals that transform the city into an around-the-clock cultural ecosystem. The 2025 edition brought together creatives and tastemakers across art, fashion, music, culture, gastronomy, and nightlife. The week began on a softer frequency with two…
For all of the much-needed weirdo adrenaline and absurdity that Sarah Sherman brings to Saturday Night Live — acting casually with singing meatballs protruding from her neck, or portraying 1922’s pointy-eared, silent film Nosferatu irked by 2024’s muscular iteration — nothing mesmerizes more than her stand-up persona, Sarah Squirm. Beloved for taking outrageous body-horror comedy…
