The Year in Fictional Music
Every year, pop culture gets a new class of pop stars, and also a new class of fake pop stars. We’re talking about fictional musicians like Spinal Tap, Powerline, and…
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Corey Feldman
Name Corey Feldman Best known for Truth. More from Spin: Outtakes: 2Pac Every Bob Dylan Album, Ranked The 5 Best Overlooked Films of 2024 Current city Los Angeles. Really want…
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:…