Outtakes: 2Pac
I photographed Tupac in 1993, at Smashbox Studios in Culver City, in L.A. It was for a magazine, I forget which now, tied to the John Singleton movie, Poetic Justice,…
Beyoncé Debuts ‘Cowboy Carter’ Cuts At NFL Halftime Show
It was a night of firsts at Houston’s NRG Stadium on Christmas (Dec. 25), as Beyoncé performed songs from her hit country album Cowboy Carter for the first time as…
Every Bob Dylan Album, Ranked
In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and…
The 5 Best Overlooked Films of 2024
In her effortless pithy way, Mae West phrased it best: “It’s better to be looked over than overlooked.” Of the hundreds of films released during any given year, most of…
Album of the Year: The Cure’s ‘Songs of a Lost World’
How does The Cure always know what we’re feeling, even before we do? It would be euphemistic to say that 2024 was transformative: war, death, struggle, strife. And near the…
Honey, I Think I Shrunk Gen X
In the January 1991 issue of SPIN, interviewing Perry Farrell, who we had crowned Artist of the Year for 1990 because he created Lollapalooza and broke up Jane’s Addiction, two…
The Best EPs of 2024
The extended play occupies a strange middle ground in the music world. An EP can feel like a glorified single with an A-side and some tacked-on bonus tracks, but they…
The Philly Specials Combines Football with Music to Make Holiday Magic
Jordan Mailata had never even played football. Growing up in Australia, he only ever watched the Super Bowl—a secular football fan rather than practicing and fully indoctrinated. More from Spin:…
Jewel Wants You to Know That You’re Not Alone
Jewel’s newly-cut bangs peep out from underneath her cowboy hat, her braided pigtails fall over the brown-and-white animal-print blouse she’s wearing as we greet each other over our video conference…
Urban Development
In August 2024—just a month prior to the release of his new album, High—Keith Urban took the stage in Athens, Alabama, and played a two-hour set for more than 5,000…