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1. 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...

2. How a Still-Defiant Shepard Fairey Turned Punk Rock Attitude Into 30 Years of Activist Art

   In the life and work of artist Shepard Fairey, social justice and the musical counterculture have always collided, igniting many of his most striking images. Most famously, they have come in the form of 18-by-24-inch posters, with messages against police violence, war, and government surveillance, and calling for peace, civil rights, and multiculturalism. There are […]

3. Gym Class Heroes’ Travie McCoy Talks New LP On ‘Lipps Service’

   Gym Class Heroes' Travie McCoy is the guest on the newest installment of the Lipps Service podcast.

4. Repelican’s Jon Ehrens Ponders the Cosmos

   “There was a site you probably remember called MP3.com, it was like pre-social media,” says Jon Ehrens, 41, thinking back to the music he made in high school. “I needed a name fast because I recorded four songs and just wanted to upload them immediately, and I used the name Repelican.” 25 years later, Ehrens […]

5. 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 […]

6. 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 […]

7. Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner Score Golden Globe Noms

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

8. 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...

9. 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.

10. 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 […]