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1. Roland Gift on ‘She Drives Me Crazy,’ Which is Not a Song He Would Save in a Shipwreck

   Fine Young Cannibals’ Roland Gift is leaning all the way to the left, so much so that he could be lying down. It’s unclear, as he’s on a video call from his native U.K. and his background is so blurred, he looks like he’s floating horizontally above his sofa. This is not how I expected […]

2. Altin Gün Salutes Neşet Ertaş On New Album

   Amsterdam-based Turkish psych purveyors Altin Gün mine the catalog Anatolian legend Neşet Ertaş for the source material on their new album...

3. AMERICANA

   A flame-haired, dirty white-suited Tyler Childers strides with intent through a standing, whooping, exultant ovation in Nashville and takes the stage to give his rejection speech at the Americana Music Association’s annual awards ceremony. Freshly anointed as Americana’s Emerging Artist of the Year, Childers wastes no time ripping the genre a new asshole. After declaring […]

4. SPIN Celebrates 40 Year Anniversary with Party at Miami Art Week

   After 40 years of cutting-edge music and cultural coverage, SPIN celebrated its milestone birthday in style at Back to Basics’ debut event — a bespoke concert headlined by hip-hop luminaries Clipse and CeeLo Green at the SCOPE Art Show on the sands of Miami’s South Beach. The Dec. 4 Miami Art Week party was thrown […]

5. Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner Score Golden Globe Noms

   Dessner and Cave are nominated for Best Original Song for the title track from...

6. Robert Smith Lands MBV, Garbage For Teenage Cancer Trust

   Robert Smith has tapped a host of beloved acts for his first stint curating the lineups for the U.K.'s annual Teenage Cancer Trust charity concert series...

7. Bright Eyes Performing Twin 2005 LPs On Tour

   Bright Eyes will play their twin 2005 albums I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn in their entirety at three special shows next summer.

8. Amy Allen on the Five Songs That Changed Everything

   The best thing that happened to pop music in recent years is that Grammy-winning songwriter Amy Allen watched that insipid Twilight saga and was revolted by the sight of the childbirth scene. This experience spurred Allen to leave “real school,” as she calls the nursing program she was enrolled in at Boston College, and go […]

9. ‘I Shot David Bowie’

   Frank Ockenfels III first crossed paths with David Bowie by chance. Ockenfels was assigned to photograph Bowie and his band Tin Machine for an early-’90s iteration of Creem magazine. It was the last of four photo sessions the band had endured that day in Los Angeles, and Ockenfels asked them to remove their shirts. Then, […]

10. Dijon Jams With Justin Vernon, Nick Hakim On ‘SNL’

    Artist/producer Dijon coaxed Bon Iver's Justin Vernon back to the live stage last night...