Name Dan Sugarman Best known for Being the lead guitarist in Ice Nine Kills and ex-As Blood Runs Black. Riffs and slippery-dumb leads, mentoring other musicians, and wearing costumes, makeup and suits in front of too many people. More from Spin: ‘Eddington’: Ari Aster’s Miserabilism Gets in the Way of a Promising Social Satire Jakob Nowell Was…
Paul Haggis’ Crash (2004) is a shallow film; its characters nothing more than reductive racial tropes colliding into and screaming epithets at one another. Somehow, the film defied the odds and beat out the heavily favored Brokeback Mountain to win the Oscar for Best Picture. Two decades and one pandemic later, perhaps the time is…
Dev Hynes is reactivating his Blood Orange project for its first album in seven years, Essex Honey, which will arrive Aug. 29 from RCA. Two tracks from it, “Mind Loaded” and “Somewhere in Between,” can be sampled below. Essex Honey is loaded with high-profile collaborators, including Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar, Mustafa, Turnstile’s Brendan Yates,…
Get ready to bust a move this fall when dance music mavens Kaytranada and Justice team for a fall North American co-headlining tour. The trek will begin Oct. 16 in Vancouver and conclude Nov. 16 in Miami. Tickets go on sale July 25. The two acts previously teamed for a June 2024 summer solstice concert…
Nine Inch Nails’ first proper new song in five years, “As Alive As You Need Me To Be,” has emerged ahead of the fall release of TRON: Ares, for which the Trent Reznor-led group is supplying the soundtrack. The latter is due Sept. 19 from Interscope, with the third film in the TRON franchise hitting…
Tame Impala is today (July 17) celebrating the 10th anniversary of its beloved album, Currents, but frontman Kevin Parker is also dropping some unsubtle hints about the state of the band’s next full-length. The as-yet-untitled effort will be the follow-up to 2020’s The Slow Rush, which was released just weeks prior to the onset of…
After eight long years, Alabama Shakes have officially reunited, and it feels (and sounds) so good to see the trio back in their element, plugged in and lashing out with soulful fury. On July 15, they launched their first tour since 2017 with a sold-out show at Chicago’s Salt Shed Fairgrounds that felt so natural…
Hours after his bandmates filed a multi-count lawsuit against him following Jane’s Addiction’s sudden dissolution last September, frontman Perry Farrell has filed his own complaint against Dave Navarro, Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins in Los Angeles County Superior Court on charges of assault and battery, intentional inflection of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress…
* Noah Kahan will have some fun in the sun with Mumford & Sons, Caamp, Role Model, flipturn, Gigi Perez, Sam Barber, Leif Vollebekk, Goldford and Cassandra Coleman as part of the third-annual Out of the Blue festival, which will descend Jan. 8-11, 2026, at Moon Palace Resort in Riviera Cancún, Mexico. Tickets go on…
The non-singing members of Jane’s Addiction have sued frontman Perry Farrell over a September 2024 onstage fight in Boston that forced the cancelation of their in-progress tour and new studio album and eventually ended the band. Guitarist Dave Navarro, bassist Eric Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins filed the complaint in Los Angeles County Superior Court…
