In June, I was on an Indie Week panel called “Indie Music Journalism: Navigating a Shifting Landscape” with with Creem’s Fred Pessaro and That Good Sh*t’s Annabelle Klein-Zilles, led by former Billboard editor Bill Werde. When Bill opened the discussion up for questions, a woman asked about the future of media given the reported rise…
Longtime the Cure guitarist/keyboardist Perry Bamonte, who played on such iconic albums as 1992’s Wish and was onstage with the U.K. band for nearly 500 shows over the past 35 years, has died at the age of 65 after a short illness. A London native, the left-handed player had a brief stint working in a…
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Stereophonic sound was all the rage in the second half of the ’60s, but nobody really knew if it would be the future of the music industry or a brief fad. Even…
Name Rome Ramirez Best known for Writing and performing songs that make people want to be outside in the water. Current city Nashville. Really want to be in I really want to go to Italy. I just want to eat all day and walk around and touch walls. Excited about Extremely excited about this album I’m working on and putting out more…
Jungs, schwingt weiter! David Bowie plays the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin, 1978. (Photo by ARTCO-Berlin/ullstein bild via Getty Images) On a Friday night at Berlin’s famed Metropol, the two surviving members of David Bowie’s Black American three-man backing rhythm section take the stage. Guitarist Carlos Alomar and bass player George Murray are missing their old percussionist…
For his work as film composer for The Testament of Ann Lee, Daniel Blumberg went back in time. The film is a vibrant musical drama starring Amanda Seyfried as the 18th-century ecstatic religious leader who founded the Shakers, and the music was built from the organic sounds of human voices and the percussion of clapping…
The two artists at the center of VOWWS came to their death-pop sound naturally. It can be heard in the music on the band’s new album, I’ll fill your house with an army, as it travels through layers of shadow and melody, anguish, and euphoria. Just don’t call it goth. “We’re not really big goth…
Kenshi Yonezu approaches each project with focus, and “JANE DOE” is no exception. Written as the ending theme for Chainsaw Man: The Movie – Reze Arc, the song contrasts the adrenaline of “IRIS OUT” with something much softer and more vulnerable. From the beginning, Yonezu didn’t imagine himself as the main voice of the song….
Touring and Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual hit shelves—and the music business’ consciousness—in 2023. This year, the much-needed audiobook for the 600+ page book was released. Edited by award-winning psychotherapist and music industry health consultant Tamsin Embleton, who founded the nonprofit Music Industry Therapist Collective in 2018, the longtime music professional contributed the introduction…
The War on Drugs celebrated their annual Drugcember to Remember residency at Philadelphia club Johnny Brenda’s last week by welcoming special guests Joe Walsh, the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, Real Estate’s Martin Courtney and founding member Kurt Vile at various points throughout. On Dec. 20, Vile was part of a War on Drugs throwback by…
