Category: SPIN

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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:…