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Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, Jim White and Emmett Kelly‘s new band the Hard Quartet have at last confirmed their debut album, a self-titled project arriving Oct. 4 from Matador Records. The group’s second single, “Rio’s Song,”…
Rock’s history is filled with success stories, both the gradual kind and the so-called “overnight” varieties. But that history also has stories of richly deserving artists who saw their path…
SAN MARCOS, Tex. — Texas rapper S7GMA knew at a young age that he needed to get away from his birthplace if he was going to survive, and he’s putting…
To date, Brazilian DJ/producer Mochakk has clocked over 160 shows in 29 countries, including a DC-10 residency and a 5000 capacity sold out Cercle show at the Plaza de España…
When Moon Zappa and I arrange a place to meet to discuss her memoir, Earth to Moon, she requests the San Fernando Valley, which I wasn’t expecting. This is the…
Live frontman Ed Kowalczyk is the latest guest on the SPIN Presents Lipps Service podcast, during which he discusses the veteran band’s return to touring and reflects on the 30 years since the…
The Smashing Pumpkins, the Chicago quartet comprised originally of singer/guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha, bassist D’arcy Wretzky, and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, were one of the most exciting bands in…
Bob Dylan has recorded a cover of Cole Porte’s “Don’t Fence Me In” for the end title credits to the upcoming biopic Reagan, in which Dennis Quad portrays the former…
Apt to mix the erotic and the romantic, a woman for whom an empty bed is an existential hostility, Tinashe Jorgensen Kachingwe is the Christine McVie of modern R&B. The…
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