Korean Brit Pop
I don’t remember how I discovered the British-invasion-inspired band HOA, but I was confused when I came across one of the group’s 2024 singles, “Tomorrow and Tomorrow (I Love You).”…
‘It’s Going to Be the Best Fucking Festival Experience of Your Life’: How Pickathon Survives in Corporate America
Imagine a music festival without any of the worst parts of a music festival. Intimate, creatively designed stages covered by ample shade. Musicians who play twice during the weekend to…
‘The City Raised Me’: DeathbyRomy’s Love-Hate Relationship with Hollywood
DeathbyRomy knows a few things about Los Angeles. The city of her birth has been an inspiration and a cautionary tale, a place of ecstasy and trauma, darkness and light.…
CULT OF PERSONALITY
I met Nile Rodgers as we were putting the first issue of SPIN together. We were introduced by our mutual (and still) friend Robert Drake, the great sound engineer. We…
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low
Name Alex Gaskarth / All Time Low!More from Spin: Now Hear This: July 2025 Fuubutsushi Comes Alive Deep Cut Friday: “Kill All Your Friends” by My Chemical Romance Best known for Holding the…
Deep Cut Friday: “Kill All Your Friends” by My Chemical Romance
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalog of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series.Tonight, My Chemical Romance is kicking off the…
Outtakes: The Kiss
In April 1993, celebrating our 8th anniversary, like we’d forgotten to do it the month before (entirely possible) because the launch was March 1985, we ran a cover of upcoming…
311 Continues to Scorch
Nick Hexum thought he was going to die. During 311’s self-financed tour to support their first major label album, 1993’s Music, the group’s lead singer and guitarist was driving the…
OLD SOUL
The great British film director Alfred Hitchcock, who, if he didn’t invent the modern thriller certainly set the mold, once said: “A star is someone the camera loves.” And by…
Moby Ascends to a Higher Calling
It’s an uncharacteristically cold, gray day in Los Angeles, which doesn’t seem to bother Moby. He’s up early and ready to talk, and no subject appears to be off limits.…