Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. I didnât grow up with many Beatles albums (my motherâs more of a Rolling Stones girl and I got heavily into The Who as a teenager). So hearing the bandâs self-titled 1968 […]
A lot of people are quietly mourning who they used to be. They’re not failing or falling behind, they’re just uncertain of who they are now or how to move in this new era. I’ve felt it, too. I’ve always thought of myself as an agent; someone who sees “it” early, spots trends, connects dots, […]
Name Tim Burgess Best known for Obviously the singer in The Charlatans is at the top of this list, but I’m as much about the other stuff, too. Over the past few years The Listening Party has always come up in conversations, more recently The Merch Market but I try to keep my C.V. as...
The Nova Scotian electro-pop musician Rich Aucoin is estimating how many analog synthesizers he used while recording his four-volume Synthetic: A Synth Odyssey (We Are Busy Bodies). “I think the number is 162.” The project, which Aucoin recorded in Calgary’s National Music Center and L.A.’s Vintage Synthesizer Museum, is a lyrics-free affair, so the 162 […]