If you’re a true music fan, you know that in April, Southern California’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival marks the beginning of US festival season. In May, Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) in Las Vegas kicks into gear, and by June, festival season is happening in full force across the globe. The quest for seeing…
Name Grace Potter More from Spin: Alan Sparhawk Lets Go on ‘With Trampled By Turtles’ The Budos Band Take Seven Steps to Heaven Bruce Springsteen Boosts Mexican ‘Soldaderas’ On ‘Adelita’ Best known for Showing up in musical collaborations that make zero sense except that it’s happening and it’s too late to think about it so just ENJOY….
Last year’s White Roses, My God—Alan Sparhawk’s first record since the 2022 passing of his wife and musical partner Mimi Parker—felt like an exorcism. Using a TC Helicon Voicetone pedal, Sparhawk twisted and distorted his voice while eschewing guitars for computers and keyboards; metal machine music to take the place of grief. Sparhawk returns less…
Lorde leaves little to the imagination in the Grant Singer-directed video for her new song “Man of the Year,” which finds her removing her top, covering her breasts with tape and dancing cathartically around a Los Angeles loft space apparently filled with nothing but dirt. It’s the second Jim-E Stack-produced track to emerge from Lorde’s…
The ever-prolific Philadelphia-reared singer/songwriter Alex G has set a July 18 release date for his major label debut for RCA Records, Headlights. The artist began releasing music on Bandcamp in 2010 and signed five years later to Domino Records, which has issued his past four full-lengths. Headlights is led by the single “Afterlife,” the Charlotte…
John Fogerty is pulling a Taylor Swift. The former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has re-recorded 20 of his best-known songs for the collection Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years, which he announced onstage last night (May 28) during an 80th birthday concert at New York’s Beacon Theatre. It…
Just in time for the band’s 50th anniversary this year, Talking Heads will reissue their Brian Eno-produced 1978 sophomore album, More Songs About Buildings and Food, in deluxe editions July 25 from Rhino Records. A previously unreleased alternate version of “Found a Job” from the set is out now. Fans will be treated to three…
The two rival gangs know shit is about to go down. More from Spin: Bruce Springsteen Boosts Mexican ‘Soldaderas’ On ‘Adelita’ Pavement Returning To Headline Levitation Fest Clipse ‘Sort Out’ First Album In 16 Years Serious-looking faces make their way across cobblestone streets, eyes staring intensely ahead under caps, hoods, or furrowed brows. Mike Rivkees…
Beloved rap duo Clipse, consisting of brothers Pusha T and Malice, are putting the finishing touches on their first album in nearly 16 years, LET GOD SORT EM OUT, which will be released July 11. A new single, “Ace Trumpets,” will be out at midnight tomorrow (May 30). The album was produced by longtime collaborator…
Pavement told fans its one-off October 2024 performance in New York would be its “last show for a long time,” and now we know exactly how long. The pioneering indie rock act will return to the stage Sept. 28 to co-headline the annual Levitation festival in Austin, Tx., capping a year highlighted by the release…
