Why Libricide’s Kismet Feels Like the Kind of Find People Gatekeep
Photo Courtesy of Libricide 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…
The Horrible Economics of AI Are Starting to Come Crashing Down
An eyebrow-raising trend has emerged this year: tech leaders rating their employees’ productivity based on the number of AI tokens they use. The trend, ribbingly dubbed “tokenmaxxing,” has sparked discourse…
Michael Stipe’s Solo Debut Will Be Out This Year
Michael Stipe performs with R.E.M. on June 13, 2024 (photo: Bennett Raglin / Getty Images for Songwriters Hall Of Fame). R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe stopped by The Late Show With…
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Wraps Synth LP
(photo: Maclay Heriot) King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have gone an uncharacteristically long time without releasing new music (10 months, to be exact), but that streak is about to…
Deep Cut Friday: ‘You Can’t Talk to the Dude’ by Jonathan Richman
Jonathan Richman on March 3, 1990. (Credit: Gie Knaeps) Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut…
The Milk Carton Kids Are Alright
The Milk Carton Kids. (Credit: Max Wagner) Joey Ryan waited 15 years for this moment. The day when someone wouldn’t automatically associate his folk group the Milk Carton Kids with…
“It’s how The Beatles must have felt” – Stephen Street on recording The Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead
Speaking in the new issue of Uncut - in shops now and available to buy online from us here - as part of our extensive celebrations of The Queen Is…
“It’s a movie, not a documentary”: Ringo Starr on Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles films
Speaking in the new issue of Uncut - in shops now and available to buy online from us here - Ringo Starr reflects on Sam Mendes’ forthcoming quartet of Beatles…
Inside our new free Uncut CD: On Rotation, a selection of the month’s best new music!
The new June 2026 issue of Uncut – in shops now or available to order online by clicking here – comes with a free CD: On Rotation, 15 tracks of the…
Big Thief live at Brixton Academy – a band that refuses to stand still
You can tell that Big Thief are feeling good about their four-night residency at Brixton Academy when they open with a delicate new song, “What I Only Dream Of”. It’s…