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1. 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Crispian Mills of Kula Shaker

   Name  Crispian Mills of Kula Shaker Best known for  Britpop on to Lord Krishna (people are still high from that mantra shizz). Current city  London, rehearsing for a tour. Really want to be in  Home in Penzance, Cornwall. If I was there I would be staring out of the window at the beautiful island of St Michael’s Mount, reminding myself...

2. Deep Cut Friday: ‘At the Atlantis’ by Bad Brains

   Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. In ancient Greek literature, the lost city of Atlantis was a fictional island that sank into the Atlantic Ocean. In late ’70s Washington, D.C., Atlantis was briefly the namesake of a key […]

3. Horror Show: Blumhouse’s New Film Takes on the Living Dead

   Horror Show is a new series uncovering the stories of artists’ experiences with the supernatural, paranormal, and unexplained—and how surviving it provided new appreciation for creating in the here and now. For many generations, the family of filmmakers Ximena and Eduardo García Lecuona has experienced a long-running phenomenon: When it’s your time to leave this […]

4. Outtakes: Rollins

   In December of 1991, I was asked to do a photoshoot with Henry Rollins for SPIN. The majority, if not all, the photos I had seen of Henry had presented that intensity and punk-like rage he was known for. I planned to capture images that went beyond that facade while remaining true to the Rollins […]

5. THE 40 BEST ALBUMS FROM THE LAST 40 YEARS THAT YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T HEAR (BUT SHOULD’VE)

   Of course you’ve missed some great stuff since 1985! A lot of you weren’t even born then!  Not only has the advent of digital releases made more music available, but it has also made keeping up (whatever that means these days) increasingly impossible. So regard the following 40 recommendations as mini-subsurface maps and drill accordingly! […]

6. Snapped: Miami Art Week 2025 (A Photo Essay)

   As always, this year’s Miami Art Week, brought the convergence of global art fairs, cultural events, brand activations, and late-night bacchanals that transform the city into an around-the-clock cultural ecosystem. The 2025 edition brought together creatives and tastemakers across art, fashion, music, culture, gastronomy, and nightlife. The week began on a softer frequency with two […]

7. WILL MAKE YOU SQUIRM

   For all of the much-needed weirdo adrenaline and absurdity that Sarah Sherman brings to Saturday Night Live — acting casually with singing meatballs protruding from her neck, or portraying 1922’s pointy-eared, silent film Nosferatu irked by 2024’s muscular iteration — nothing mesmerizes more than her stand-up persona, Sarah Squirm.  Beloved for taking outrageous body-horror comedy […]

8. John Fluevog: Rebel Sole

   Walk into any Fluevog store—from Vancouver to Amsterdam—and you feel it immediately: this is not fashion as usual. It’s part art gallery, part spiritual sanctuary, part joyful rebellion.  For 55 years, Vancouver-born legendary designer John Fluevog has been quietly reshaping what a shoe can mean, building a world where craftsmanship, whimsy, and radical self-acceptance stand […]

9. The Best Music Videos of 2025

   Rumors of MTV’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. In October, it was announced that many of MTV’s subchannels in Europe and South America would be discontinued at the end of 2025. But the social media telephone game quickly led to many believing that MTV as a whole, in the U.S. and everywhere else, was shutting […]

10. DARK SIDE OF THE DREAM

    Last year the Residents celebrated the 50th anniversary of their debut, Meet the Residents. But the theatrical, quixotically anonymous band, who’ve been in costume longer than KISS, are still full of piss and vinegar and recently released longtime-in-the-making true crime concept album Doctor Dark, based in part on the 1990 heavy metal trial around two […]