Name Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte of 3OH!3. Best known for Being one of two dudes who can’t really dance, sings just OK, used to be slightly handsome, but can still rock a fuckin’ party. — Nat Current city Los Angeles. — Sean Boulder, CO. — Nat Really want to be in Margeritaville. — Sean Anglet,…
The Replacements in 1988. (Credit: Ebet Roberts/Redferns//Getty Images) I bought my first copy of Let It Be when I was 15 and it unlocked my lifelong love of the Replacements. Soon I was hunting down albums, bootlegs, zines, T-shirts—I even agreed to clean my high school biology teacher’s snake and guinea pig tanks for several…
Bassist Roger Waters and drummer Nick Mason began playing music together as teenagers while studying architecture at the London Polytechnic. By the end of 1965, they had been joined by keyboardist Richard Wright and singer/guitarist Syd Barrett. Barrett named the band Pink Floyd in homage to two favorite blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council….
Fellow buzzy singer/songwriters MJ Lenderman and Role Model share the stage on the next episode of PBS’ Austin City Limits, which premieres tomorrow (Nov. 22) at 8pm ET. Backed by this band the Wind, Lenderman makes his program debut with a six-song set heavy on material from his acclaimed album Manning Fireworks. SPIN premieres a…
For music hounds, every day is Record Store Day, especially at the end of the week after you get your paycheck. And while those who live that milkcrate life likely akin the official RSD to going out drinking on St. Patrick’s Day, the fact there are two dates attached to this shopper’s holiday proves how…
Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold once lost a high school talent show after performing an Elliott Smith cover, but audiences are sure to be more accepting of his lovely, just-released take on the late singer/songwriter’s “Angel in the Snow,” which can be found on the soundtrack to the Amazon MGM holiday movie Oh. What. Fun. As previously…
Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska has been getting a lot of attention lately, with the Scott Cooper-helmed biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere and Nebraska ‘82: Expanded Edition both released in October. In 1984, Springsteen released Born in the U.S.A., Springsteen’s first political album, a commentary on national identity, disillusionment, and patriotism through the eyes of Vietnam…
Is this real life, or just fantasy? That’s the blurry line Charli xcx navigates in the trailer for her new film The Moment, in which she portrays a thinly veiled version of her arena-filling, pop star self. The movie will be released in theaters Jan. 26 by A24 and is the first from the artist’s…
Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist Gary “Mani” Mounfield has died at the age of 63, according to a social media post from his brother. No cause was provided. Mounfield’s bass work helped propel the Stone Roses out of the post-Smiths-era Manchester, England, several years before the Britpop revolution made superstars out of Oasis, Blur…
If you were to have asked late Sugar Hill Records co-founder Sylvia Robinson who helped put hip-hop—a genre traditionally dominated by men—on the map, she would have justifiably raised her hand. Robinson, who passed away in 2011, was largely responsible for hip-hop’s first Top 40 single, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugar Hill Gang (1979), as…
