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1. Why Libricide’s Kismet Feels Like the Kind of Find People Gatekeep

   Some albums don’t ask for attention so much as take it. Kismet, the new music release from Libricide, has that effect. While some music sounds thrown together for the algorithm, it doesn’t flatten itself into the kind of vague, interchangeable rock that disappears the second the chorus ends. It sounds alive, slightly unruly, and fully […]

2. Michael Stipe’s Solo Debut Will Be Out This Year

   R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night (April 23) to confirm that his long-in-the-works solo debut will be released...

3. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Wraps Synth LP

   The prolific Australian group revealed on social media today (April 24) that its next album, made entirely on its bespoke modular synthesizer setup...

4. Deep Cut Friday: ‘You Can’t Talk to the Dude’ by Jonathan Richman

   Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. In the seven years between starting college and moving in with the woman I’m now married to, I had eight different roommates. Some of those roommates were good friends, strangers who I […]

5. The Milk Carton Kids Are Alright

   Joey Ryan waited 15 years for this moment. The day when someone wouldn’t automatically associate his folk group the Milk Carton Kids with all those sad images of missing youth splatted across grocery stores in the 1980s. “That is so fucking cool to hear,” he says after learning that I thought the band name was […]

6. 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Chet Faker

   Name  Chet Faker Best known for Confusing people. Current city Sydney. Really want to be in The woods, as far away from everything as possible. Excited about  Releasing new music. My current music collection has a lot of  Scandinavians. And a little bit of  Japanese. Preferred format  Vinyl, but I wish mini-disc was still a...

7. OOIOO and Lightning Bolt: Together at Last!

   You might be disappointed to learn that OOIOO and Lightning Bolt do not actually collaborate on their new LP, The Horizon Spirals/The Horizon Viral. But maybe it’s for the best. The pairing of two of the underground’s wildest bands, powered by two of the most formidable drummers in the biz — OOIOO’s YoshimiO and the […]

8. Justin Vernon Details His Bob Dylan Cover Band

   Now, he’s finally offering a clearer picture of what that actually means -- and it’s not Bon Iver as usual.

9. Geese Fall Tour Includes Band’s Largest NYC Show

   Geese's charmed run as one of the buzziest indie rock bands of recent memory will extend at least through early November.

10. Quicksand Strikes Back With ‘Bring On The Psychics’

    New York trio Quicksand's improbable second act will continue July 17 with its first album in five years.