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 […]
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...
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 […]
Joey Ryan waited 15 years for this moment. The day when someone wouldnât automatically associate his folk group the Milk Carton Kids with all those sad images of missing youth splatted across grocery stores in the 1980s. âThat is so fucking cool to hear,â he says after learning that I thought the band name was […]
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...
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 â OOIOO’s YoshimiO and the […]