Category: SPIN

Magazines, like people, need a quiet place. Especially SPIN, cast as it is with so much strutting egos and talk of great sounds. Hence here—amidst the hurlyburly, the din, the…

The late Mac Miller‘s unreleased 2014 album Balloonerism will finally see the light of day on Jan. 17. The artist, who died of a drug overdose in 2018, shelved Balloonerism…

The old adage “better late than never” certainly applies to former Def Jam Recordings hip-hop group 3rd Bass, who recently announced their reunion after years of bad blood. The public…

This first appeared in our September print issue. But not all of you managed to snatch an issue from the stands before hordes of ravenous magazine freaks ran screaming through…

The 2025 edition of the Coachella festival will be headlined by Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott. The long-running event in the desert outside Palm Springs will…

Wilco‘s 2004 project A Ghost Is Born, which won the Grammy for Best Alternative Album, has been beefed up with extensive archival material for a slightly belated 20th anniversary reissue,…

In contrast to the lake effect clouds darkening the Buffalo skies in the middle of the day, I recognized the radiant turquoise and yellow paint of my destination immediately. The…

Everything Is Recorded, the heavily collaborative recording project of XL Recordings head Richard Russell, will release its third album, Temporary, on Feb. 28 through the label. A new single, “Losing…

It was Slash, the top-hatted, sunglasses-wearing guitarist for Guns N’ Roses, who inspired Grace Bowers to pick up a guitar at age 9. But it wasn’t until she heard B.B.…

Brothers Jeff and Steven McDonald helped put SoCal punk on the map in the late 1970s as teenage miscreants in Redd Kross, and now their unique tale is being told…