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5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: David Ellefson of Megadeth/DIETH Ace Frehley – 10,000 VoltsMNRK Heavy Rock lives! Reports of its death are, apparently, premature (although they were pretty convincing). Ace Frehley, founding member and lead guitarist […]

Cergio Prudencio’s Antología 1 Showcases Daring Bolivian Composer Cergio Prudencio – Antología 1: Obras para la Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos (Buh Records) Cergio Prudencio was born in La Paz, a city at the feet […]

Stream Sheer Mag’s New Album A Distant Call Sheer Mag – Playing Favorites (Third Man) Even at capacity, there’s room for joy at the dive bar. On Playing Favorites, the third full-length release from Philadelphia […]

Faye Webster Announces New EP, Listen to ‘Car Therapy’ Faye Webster – Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian) Faye Webster’s “Lifetime,” the second single off her fifth album, Underdressed at the Symphony, is the kind […]

Friko Follow Big Indie-Rock Footprints on Debut Album Friko – Where we’ve been, Where we go from here (ATO) Chicago’s vaunted teen/DIY scene has already launched a bunch of interesting bands, including ‘90s-inspired post-punk trio […]

Thurston Moore’s Memoir, Sonic Life, Coming in October Devon Ross came by her music obsessions naturally. At 24, she’s already had a successful career as a high-fashion model, but music was always a defining part […]

Ex Hex Announce New Album It’s Real With “Cosmic Cave” Mary Timony – Untame the Tiger(Merge) With Mary Timony, the steadying groove—rhythmic guitar wizardry usually, keyboard or piano legerdemain on occasion—was always, secretly, the point. […]

SPIN Daybreaker: 23 Songs You Shouldn’t Wait Any Longer to Discover More from Spin: SPIN Daybreaker: 23 Songs You Shouldn’t Wait Any Longer to Discover Remember photo albums? Matt Carins and Ryan Henderson of Hollow […]

Brie Stoner On the Sultry Simplicity of Her Serge Gainsbourg-Inspired Single “Hungry” By the sound of her upcoming album, Me Veo, and the smoldering late-60s-French-pop-sounding song, “Hungry,” you wouldn’t guess that Brie Stoner would be […]

Quarters of Change Search for Light When Quarters of Change formed in 2017, finding its alt-rock sound was somewhat of a covert operation. The band, which consisted of vocalist Ben Roter, guitarist Jasper Harris, and […]

The Struts’ Luke Spiller Will Perform With Members of Queen at Taylor Hawkins Tributes More from Spin: The Struts’ Luke Spiller Makes Fourth Appearance On Lipps Service The Struts Open Up About Taylor Hawkins Tributes […]

Lo Moon’s Matt Lowell Tells Us About the Song That ‘Felt Like Water’ Almost exactly two years ago, I sat with Matt Lowell and Sam Stewart, Lo Moon’s vocalist/songwriter and guitarist, on the deck of […]

Jessie Murph Talks Major-Label Debut And The Importance Of Rascal Flatts On Lipps Service If you ask Jessie Murph to pinpoint the moment she first realized a career as an artist was a possibility, she’ll […]

On Their Debut LP, Office Dog Plug In, and Pluck Up What do you do if you’re nursing a particularly bad breakup and feeling extra burnt out on your solo career? If you’re New Zealand […]

14 Artists to Watch in 2024 If a Chemical Brothers-inspired banger is born on a laptop and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? That was a conundrum long pondered […]