‘Sorry, Baby’ Dares Us to Smile
Wedding comedy with difficult subject matter is serious business. It takes a deft hand to craft a film that intertwines laughter with trauma without coming off as insulting or pandering.…
How a Trap House Freestyle Became Hip-Hop’s Ultimate Weed Anthem
It started in a smoky trap house in East Oakland, teens banging on a table, freestyling about scrounging up enough cash to buy a twenty sack. A chant: “I got five…
Why Music Documentaries Keep Getting It Wrong
It’s fun to live vicariously through musicians. They go to extremes so we don’t have to—but we love watching them do it. In recent years, music-focused films and series have…
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Spider Stacy of the Pogues
Name Spider Stacy Best known for Playing tin whistle and singing with the Pogues. More from Spin: Deep Cut Friday: “Fade Away and Radiate” by Blondie 25 Songs That Still Believe in Peace…
Deep Cut Friday: “Fade Away and Radiate” by Blondie
Each week, SPIN will dig into the catalog of great artists and highlight songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The conventional wisdom about the late…
How Country Star Dustin Lynch Is Making Vegas Nightlife Dance to a Different Beat
A country singer walks into a Las Vegas EDM club. The punchline? He’s headlining the place.Dustin Lynch, the chart-topping Tennessean behind the global country hit "Small Town Boy," has left…
25 Songs That Still Believe in Peace
“I did feel that the day was going to come eventually, but it’s not a song I ever wanted to sing,” Julian Lennon told me in 2022, when asked about…
MADONNA, MOVIE STAR
Madonna graced the first cover of SPIN forty years ago, which coincides with the anniversary of her film debut, Desperately Seeking Susan. She also happens to be the actress with…
Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Ruban Nielson Channels Sister’s Death Into His Darkest Music Yet
Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Ruban Nielson doesn’t make eye contact as he holds his phone up to his face with both hands. He is at his Palm Springs home, where he…
Dropkick Murphys are ‘For the People’
It’s been two weeks since Ken Casey flew across the North Atlantic Ocean, traveling over 4,000 miles to Warsaw, Poland, where he joined an aid group to drive first responder…