Puerto Rican reggaeton star Myke Towers has dropped his sixth studio album, “Island Boyz,” a sprawling 23-track project that showcases his Caribbean roots while pushing into new sonic territory. The album, released July 17, features collaborations with Quevedo, De La Ghetto, Manuel Turizo, and Nigerian artist Omah Lay, among others. The project marks a departure…
Fresh off a massive performance yesterday (Aug. 3) at Lollapalooza in Chicago, Doechii has revealed plans for her Live From the Swamp tour this fall. The 12-date headlining outing will kick off Oct. 14 at the Windy City’s Aragon Ballroom and wrap Nov. 10 in Seattle. Its name is inspired by themes and imagery from…
DENM still remembers hearing Sublime on the radio as a kindergartner. The SoCal native, born Mac Montgomery in 1990, grew up with songs like “Santeria,” “What I Got,” and “Garden Grove” serving as the soundtrack to his life. Just 6 years old when lead singer Bradley Nowell died of an accidental drug overdose, DENM didn’t…
When Evan Felker got back to making music again with Turnpike Troubadours in 2022, it came with a new sense of balance. On the road, life tended to unfold at night at the microphone, but on his ranch in Central Oklahoma, Felker was up early and working with his hands. With about 200 cows, his…
One of the more intriguing reissues of the 2020s is a rare, 50-year-old album by a band with a crap name. In Fall 1972, Greene Bottle Records, a subsidiary of Paramount, released the debut album by a New York City group called Pool-Pah, who combined odd synth excursions and strutting funk with winding prog arrangements…
In lieu of a more traditional album release, Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams has dropped 17 individual new tracks on DSPs through her Post Atlantic imprint, which is distributed by Secretly Distribution. They were produced by Daniel James and also include contributions from Brian Robert Jones, Joey Howard and Jim-E Stack. Williams debuted the shoegaze-steeped “Mirtazapine”…
There is always risk in covering a song that feels sacred. Paula DeAnda’s 2006 hit Walk Away (Remember Me) is one of those songs that never really left the room. But in Jackson Breit’s latest reimagining, he does more than revisit the track. He rebuilds it with reverence and restraint, letting the original’s emotion simmer…
Chappell Roan offers a valentine to the Big Apple on her new single, “The Subway,” which is out now in tandem with an Amber Grace Johnson-directed music video. “This song encompasses everything I love about New York City — with the hope, heartbreak and healing that it has to offer us all,” the artist said…
Music producer and DJ Jorge Duarte, better known as Jörgen, releases his first single, “Montañas Oscuras,” for SPIN Records today (August 1), available across all streaming platforms. “‘Montañas Oscuras’ was born out of pure inspiration,” says Jörgen. “After attending Skyline Festival in Los Angeles in 2025, where Marco Carola and the Martinez Brothers delivered unforgettable…
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The Pogues performing in Amsterdam on November 4, 1989. (Credit: Frans Schellekens/Redferns) Elvis Costello loved the Pogues in the 1980s. The band’s opinions of Costello, however, were mixed. Bassist Cait O’Riordan began…
