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1. Roots Picnic Rounds Out With Badu, Kehlani

   The Roots Picnic has filled in the rest of its 2026 lineup.

2. Neil Diamond Conjures Third, Final Rick Rubin LP

   Neil Diamond is returning with one last chapter from his long-running collaboration and commercially successful run with Rick Rubin.

3. ‘Lipps Service’ Welcomes Peaches, The Hives

   Provocative Canadian artist Peaches and Swedish rockers the Hives are the guests on the...

4. DJ GQ takes Miami’s Caribbean sound from local clubs to SiriusXM’s Tuff Gong Radio

   Gary Hardie, known professionally as DJ GQ, recently hosted a Bob Marley birthday celebration from a SiriusXM studio in Miami Beach, moving between the mixing console and the microphone throughout the broadcast. Between songs, he cued classic dancehall records, interviewed Quino McWhinney of Big Mountain, and entertained a small live audience gathered for the taping. Hours later,...

5. Deep Cut Friday: ‘Africa Talks to You’ by Sly & The Family Stone

   Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Two of 1971’s most iconic soul albums fit together as a question and an answer. After Marvin Gaye released his thought-provoking opus What’s Going On in May of that year, Sly & […]

6. 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith and Close Enemies

   Name  Thomas W. Hamilton, a.k.a Ham, Hammy, Whammit, or as Joe Perry called me a few times when we were kids, Tom Ham-BONE-ilton and Mr. Sweet Emotion ( thank you, Steven). Best known as  The tall skinny guy next to the drummer, madly wiggling his fingers even though you can’t tell what he’s playing. Current city  A secret […]

7. Q1 Just Rewired Culture

   From CES to Sundance, the Super Bowl to the WBC, the Grammys to the Oscars, and now SXSW to the Winter Music Conference, the calendar has been packed with cultural checkpoints. Awards were handed out, deals were signed, and a lot of handshakes happened in hotel lobbies and members’ clubs. But beneath the ceremonies, deeper […]

8. Ashley McBryde: Come Hell or High Whiskey

   Ashley McBryde has been trying to record “Rattlesnake Preacher” for more than a decade. She first heard it in the mid 2010s, during a song exchange with her friend, the late songwriter Randall Clay, and it was love at first sound. She related to its embrace of the disreputable, its insights into the extremes of […]

9. Lorde ‘Inspired’ After Parting Ways With Universal

   Lorde has parted ways with Universal Music Group, to which she has been signed in some form since she was 12 years old.

10. Power ‘Hour’: Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine Pens Memoir

    The book was co-written with Joe Layden and details Mustaine's multi-year battle with squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue.