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1. Finn Wolfhard, A$AP Rocky Tapped For ‘SNL’ ’26 Debut

   Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard will host the first episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live of 2026, with musical guest A$AP Rocky joining the fun on Jan. 17.

2. Wild Card: Skrillex

   With his album F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT, there were simply no rules. The album, released on April 1 (but no joke), is listened to as a seamless live mix. The 34 track, 46 minute journey lands like a blockbuster movie that doesn’t quit until its playfully arpeggiated end credits. The album is a complete game […]

3. Travis Bacon’s Musical Mayhem

   When Kevin Bacon got bludgeoned to death in bed while smoking a post-coital joint in the 1980 classic Friday the 13th (four years before hitting it big in Footloose), it began a frightful and fruitful entertainment trajectory for him and his family. He went on to star in a string of horror and sci-fi flicks […]

4. The Mental Health Manual Every Touring Musician Needs

   Touring and Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual hit shelves—and the music business’ consciousness—in 2023. This year, the much-needed audiobook for the 600+ page book was released. Edited by award-winning psychotherapist and music industry health consultant Tamsin Embleton, who founded the nonprofit Music Industry Therapist Collective in 2018, the longtime music...

5. The Complex Legacy of Queer Villains in Cinema

   “The villain is the character that the people remember,” said actor Udo Kier, an icon of world cinema who’s carved out his own specific niche of Euro-flavored antagonists in a career spanning six decades. But remembrance, and inevitable reverence, for villains bears a divisiveness as we’re morally conditioned to demonize them. The historical depiction of […]

6. Kenshi Yonezu x Hikaru Utada: The Emotional Weight of “JANE DOE”

   Kenshi Yonezu approaches each project with focus, and “JANE DOE” is no exception. Written as the ending theme for Chainsaw Man: The Movie – Reze Arc, the song contrasts the adrenaline of “IRIS OUT” with something much softer and more vulnerable.  From the beginning, Yonezu didn’t imagine himself as the main voice of the song. […]

7. Album of the Year: Lily Allen’s ‘West End Girl’

   If success is the best revenge, Lily Allen’s West End Girl achieved both in 2025, while reinventing what an album about heartbreak could be.  Its unique narrative structure, biting lyricism, and shameless vulnerability was a reintroduction to Allen’s musical gifts, which longtime fans have admired since her 2006 hits “Smile” and “LDN.” But it was […]

8. EsDeeKid, Timothée Chalamet Squash Rumors With Remix Collab

   After weeks of breathless online speculation, British rapper EsDeeKid and actor Timothée Chalamet confirmed Friday (Dec. 19) that they aren't, in fact, the same person...

9. Deep Cut Friday: ‘Another Lonely Christmas’ by Prince

   Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Prince released an album almost every year of the 1980s, but his output was so prolific throughout that decade that there was always more material spilling forth through other outlets. He wrote […]

10. A CHRISTMAS CAROL

    Taylor Momsen breezes into a Manhattan diner like a benevolent banshee, her pale skin and long blonde hair shock against her all-black silhouette. She’s just come from a makeup trial, lids dusted with iridescent shadow glow against her blue eyes. She orders a Coke Zero with a straw, curling her long fingers around the pebbled […]