In Music and Life, Ray LaMontagne Cherishes Things That Last
If you know of an old house for sale around the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, preferably pre-1800, we might have a buyer. “My sweetie and I are just crazy about…
Mamaleek: Utter Enigma and Understandably Human
“The studio is just a moment in time,” Mamaleek tells me, over a faceless Zoom call. The band doesn’t customarily give interviews, but two members agree to meet with me.…
Snapped: ISOKNOCK’s 4EVR Gallery Event (A Photo Essay)
Counterculture electronic duo ISOXO and KNOCK2 join forces again on their dynamic ISOKNOCK collab, releasing their hard hitting trap x dance 4EVR LP on 88 Rising, self described as “filtering…
Garbagebarbie Rises from the Rubbish
How does an unknown band, one that’s never headlined an established venue, manage to sell out their first show at the Echo in Los Angeles? For garbagebarbie, the quartet of…
Ravyn Lenae in the Radical Present
On the cover of her sophomore album, Ravyn Lenae dunks her reddened hair into her grandmother’s basement sink. The photo is sepia-stained, and the interior around her is crude and…
Every X Album, Ranked
Singer/bassist John Doe and guitarist Billy Zoom formed X in L.A. in 1977, just as the debut albums by the Ramones and the Clash debuts were inspiring the first wave…
The Professor Will Now Unpack—Pitbull, Ne-Yo, and Afrojack’s ‘2 the Moon’
Dr. Tom Zoellner is a tenured Professor of English at Chapman University, the author of numerous distinguished works of non-fiction, and an editor-at-large of the Los Angeles Review of Books.…
Charles R. Cross, Kurt Cobain And Jimi Hendrix Biographer, Dies At 67
Veteran music journalist Charles R. Cross, who wrote best-selling biographies of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix and founded the long-running Bruce Springsteen fan magazine Backstreets, died Aug. 9 of…
Mark Foster Talks Filling ‘the Well Back Up With Life’ to Create Art
More from Spin: 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Mark Foster of Foster the People Hear Ezra Koenig and Foster the People’s Mark Foster Discuss Jeffrey Epstein Conspiracy Theories on…
Anyone Wanna Start a Rumor About girlfriends?
Travis Mills has heard the conspiracy theory about Avril Lavigne—the one where she actually died and in 2003 was replaced by someone named Melissa who looks enough like her to…