The more digital the world becomes, the more valuable real life gets. Watching something on an IG Story is not the same as being in the room when it happens. In a world where information is abundant and democratized, relationships are currency. People want to work with people they actually know. In-person connection is far […]
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. In R.E.M.’s early years, Michael Stipe was comfortable with ambiguity, as a lyricist and as a public figure. His lyrics were dense and cryptic, but they wouldn’t be printed out in the […]
Name Michael Hampton a.k.a. Kidd Funkadelic Best known for Joining Parliament Funkadelic at age 17, and over the past 50 years playing more than 5,000 shows in 400 cities across six continents with them, totaling over 10,000 hours on stage. I certainly didnât count all that up, a friend calculated it with AI help on the research. […]
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready has seen it all both onstage and in his experiences traveling the globe with Pearl Jam for the past 35-plus-years, but he’s about to tell a new story in an entirely different way. On Oct. 6, he’ll release the original Z2 graphic novel Farewell to Seasons, which reimagines the rise […]
As legend goes, there was a night in the late ’80s when Princess Diana was hellbent on joining her friends Freddie Mercury, DJ and TV host Kenny Everett, and actress Cleo Rocos for a night out at the notorious London gay bar Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Knowing she’d need a good disguise, the group came up […]