LITTLE RICHARDHere’s Little RichardSPECIALITY, 1957Little Richard took my breath away when I first heard him, and he was always in the forefront of all my music. He was raucous and…
In the middle of a rainstorm in Miami, Mau y Ricky are finding shelter in the place where they feel most at home—the recording studio. After nearly a decade of…
HAYDEN PEDIGO“He’s an instrumental guitarist – a little bit John Fahey, a little bit Ry Cooder – but he’s very charismatic, even though he’s not singing. It’s just the way…
Tom Hanks made his directing debut in 1996 with That Thing You Do!, a fictional saga of a one-hit-wonder 1960s band punningly called the Wonders. The title song, written by…
Somewhere deep in the archives of the lime-green, forum-shaped headquarters of Mutato Muzika, Mark Mothersbaugh is digging up the distant past. The building houses his music production company on the…
Dominique Fils-Aimé’s music makes indoors feel like outdoors—capturing the fresh, natural, rejuvenating version of being in nature. The singer-songwriter sits cross-legged on a blue couch, a slouchy sweater casually slipped…
Joining forces amongst the Eel River’s majestic California Redwoods, Dirtybird Campout and Northern Nights Music Festival took over Cook’s Valley Campground for “an extraordinary weekend of music, art, cannabis, wellness,…
Name Geoff Wilkinson Best known for If you’ve never met me—“Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia).” If you have met me—my natural wit and charm, of course! More from Spin: Deep Cut Friday: ‘Cast No Shadow’…
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 constantly shifting landscape of popular music,…