Grammy Awards 2024: The Full List Of Winners (Updating)
The 66th annual Grammy Awards are being handed out today (Feb. 4) at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, with Trevor Noah again hosting the live…
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MC5’s Wayne Kramer: The Lost Interview
When it comes to the vast, undulating history of rock music, you’d be hard-pressed to find a band as innovative, invigorating, provocative and perpetuating as…
Panic In Detroit: Our 1997 Wayne Kramer Feature
This article was originally published in the June 1997 edition of SPIN. In memory of Wayne Kramer, who died on Feb. 2, 2024, we are…
Wayne Kramer’s 10 Best Songs
When MC5 burst out of Detroit and onto the national scene in 1969, they did it as only they could: with Kick Out the Jams,…
‘Dear John’: The Legacy of No Doubt’s Original Frontman John Spence
One night in 1986—before current members Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal, and Adrian Young were in the band—No Doubt had finished playing a backyard gig to…
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Nathaniel William Hilts of The Dead South
Name The Dead South/Nathaniel William Hilts Best known for Kind eyes and a beer gut. Current city Regina, Saskatchewan Canada Really want to be in Tough question as I…
Squid’s Louis Borlase Tells Us Why Their New Single is a Dumpster Fire
It’s a gloomy afternoon in Southeast London, as Squid guitarist Louis Borlase reports, from his home in Deptford, UK. So far the day has been “chaotic”…
10 Pedals Every Guitarist Should Own
Whether you’ve been collecting guitar pedals for decades or just picked up the hobby in recent months, there are some staples that everybody should own.…
I Attended a 28-Hour Drone Music Festival. (Should I Have Brought a Pillow?)
Friday, 6:34 p.m. Should I have brought a real pillow? A blanket? It’s too late to do anything about it. I’m already driving toward Minneapolis’…
Pearl Jam Unveil Upcoming Album At Daytime L.A. Playback
Pearl Jam debuted their upcoming 12th studio album today (Jan. 31) in front of a crowd of invited guests at Los Angeles’ famed Troubadour club,…
Miley Cyrus, Lorde, The National Lead ‘Stop Making Sense’ Covers LP
Miley Cyrus, Lorde, the National have joined Paramore as part of Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense, a song-for-song tribute…
Dragged Under’s Tony Cappocchi on Freedom of Speech, Relatability in Rock
Tony Cappocchi, vocalist of punk rock band Dragged Under, believes we can learn a lot from freedom of speech, regardless of how it’s used. “Freedom…
Meet Niko Brim: Hip-Hop’s Next Gen Superstar
There was a time when Niko Brim and his mother had nothing. To make ends meet, he took various odd jobs teaching swim lessons, walking…
Downtime With Greta Van Fleet’s Sam Kiszka
Sam Kiszka is sitting in front of an ocean-blue wall sipping coffee, enveloped in a sea of calm. It’s the start of autumn, and even…
Netflix’s “We Are the World” Documentary Brings Us Back to That Night
Getting superstar musicians together in the studio is like herding cats. That’s a major takeaway from The Greatest Night in Pop, the documentary about the…
Khruangbin Plot North American Tour Behind New Album
Khruangbin will support their upcoming album A LA SALA with an extensive North American tour, beginning with a previously announced April 14 appearance at the…
Heart Embarking On First Tour In Five Years
Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Heart will return to the road for the first time in five years this spring on the Royal Flush…
Joni Mitchell Confirms First-Ever Grammy Performance
Joni Mitchell’s remarkable comeback continues with the announcement today (Jan. 28) that she will perform for the first time ever at next week’s Grammy Awards.…
Watch Justin Timberlake Return To ‘SNL’ With New Songs
Justin Timberlake capped a big comeback week by visiting NBC’s Saturday Night Live last night (Jan. 27) to perform the new songs “Sanctified” and “Selfish”…
Lil Nas X Documentary: An Intimate Portrait of a Cultural Pioneer
Lil Nas X cuts an imposing figure. In a gold net tank top that shows off his ripped physique, ballooning brown parachute pants, sky-high heels,…