Alyse Zavala, the ferociously mesmerizing front woman of the ferociously mesmerizing band LYLVC (pronounced “lilac”), prides herself on getting through barriers. “Any door that has a lock on it,” she says, “give me a little bit of time and I’m going to get through that freaking door. You know what I’m saying?” Yes. She’s saying […]
Name Angelo Moore a.k.a. Dr. Mad Vibe Best known for Fishbone Soldier #1… a poet, an artist, a musician, actor, entertainer, purifier of truth. I’m here to hold up a mirror to you to look at your soul, unfiltered and with love. Sometimes the truth is ugly, but we can make it beautiful with art. Current city Los […]
Every once in a while, a new artist grabs my attention. In a world where catalog artists are dominating the mainstream and there are more than 100,000 new songs dropping daily on Spotify and YouTube, it’s very difficult for many artists to cut through. Enter LaRussell. When we were a talent agency, we had a […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. I remember when my older brother bought Radiohead’s Airbag / How Am I Driving? EP in the spring of 1998, and we were eager to hear more songs from the sessions that […]
Here’s a thing that happened one day at SPIN back in the ’90s: we all went to the airport. I don’t remember how we got there, or if we arrived together, I don’t remember much at all except that we met at the airport. Huddled together outside one of the terminals at LaGuardia. By “we” […]