Stranger Things star and musician Finn Wolfhard is adapting the acclaimed 2016 Replacements biography Trouble Boys into a feature film, SPIN can confirm. Wolfhard has been working for several months with his father Eric and Neighborhood Watch producer Rich Peete to co-write a screenplay based on the book, which was written by journalist Bob Mehr….
Nine Inch Nails will reprise their dazzling Peel It Back tour in U.S. arenas next year, beginning Feb. 5 in New Orleans and concluding March 16 in Sacramento, Ca. The opening act will again be electronic musician Boys Noize, who also performed during portions of Nine Inch Nails’ sets at the recent shows. The two…
Mike Frazier doesn’t waste time. A title card flashes over footage of him opening a garage door: “The Belly Is In the Brain.” It immediately cuts to Frazier, now seated and centered in the frame. “For two years I felt debilitating nausea, chronic pain, and the worst mental health crisis of my life.” As he…
French musician Melody Prochet’s fourth album as Melody’s Echo Chamber, Unclouded, will arrive Dec. 5 from Domino Records and, as previously reported, was produced and co-written with Swedish musician Sven Wunder. A new song, “In the Stars,” is out now. “The music I create unusually inhabits the liminal zone between realism and fables,” says Prochet….
It’s an eventful day in the world of North Carolina indie duo Sylvan Esso, who have released their first single in three years, “WDID,” and pledged to remove their digital catalog from Spotify. The confrontational cut is the first to be released on their own label, Psychic Hotline. “As we prepare to release new music,…
There was a stretch in 1990 when our Saturdays belonged to midnight showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. My friends and I would don our best bondage gear and join the long queue outside the Nuart Theatre in West Los Angeles, waiting in “anticipation” to belt out the cult musical’s songs while performing the…
Though he began releasing music in the early ’90s, Jeff Tweedy has been a steady, calming force for aging indie fans for the past 20 years. After kicking a painkiller addiction and seemingly moving past the anxiety that fueled early Wilco classics such as Summerteeth and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Tweedy has mainly explored warm, genial…
Chris Cuffaro here tells Matt Thompson how he captured this band as the sonic storm was set to break. The shoot came through SPIN. I got a studio at the lot on A&M Records. I walked into the studio at the lot, looked around, and said, “OK, we’ve got a gray backdrop, a black backdrop;…
Ruston Kelly was in the middle of a years-long existential crisis when he left his own body and watched himself sitting at his piano. An astral projection. He was sober, clean from drugs for a few years. An apparition approached him while he floated. It was Jesus. As the figure came closer to Kelly, the…
Yusuf/Cat Stevens has canceled a North American book tour in support of his memoir Cat on the Road to Findout due to visa issues. The events were to feature conversations and stripped-down performances and were set to begin Thursday (Oct. 2) in Philadelphia. “Waiting months for visa approvals, we held out as long as we…
