Pop Spotlight

Just three weeks after she graduated high school in 2020, Hannah Jadagu randomly received a DM on Instagram from Tony Kiewel, co-president of Sub Pop Records, the storied indie label that was home to Nirvana […]

It’s hard to think of a band with a career trajectory similar to Rancid. When punk exploded in the ‘90s, it was always the band repping first-wave British punk acts like U.K. Subs and GBH. […]

Blue Chips is a monthly rap column that highlights exceptional rising rappers. To read previous columns, click here. Name five Boston rappers. Take a second. Stop reading and think about it. Kudos if you got […]

Printed simply on the back cover of the new Foo Fighters album But Here We Are are four words that pretty much say all one needs to know about its reason for existence: “For Virginia […]

Forget indie sleaze – there was something much, much darker and more captivating growing in New York’s underground in the early 2000s. Khanate were stretching doom metal far beyond conventional musicality, as guitarist Stephen O’Malley’s […]

Kirsten Izer, who was “always making music, since I was 11 years old,” started her career at 18 as a publicist for indie artists. After a while she decided to become a journalist, and interviewed […]

On a refreshingly cool Saturday night in late April, Austin’s Urban Heat is just back from touring the east coast and southwest and about to begin a homecoming set at Hotel Vegas’ outside patio stage. […]

Welcome to Difficult Fun! Each month, SPIN will spotlight the best punk on the planet and discuss it here, with the ambition of challenging preconceived notions of what the four-letter word actually means and, ideally, […]

Nobody expected things to go this way for Foyer Red, least of all Foyer Red themselves. The band began casually, an idea hatched earlier but born from pandemic stir craziness. Unable to continue with their […]

As teenagers in their early days, they jammed together in their basement doing covers of Nirvana, Rancid and Rage. Today, they’re the epic force of indie electro-rock known as Jimkata. The trio of Evan Friedell […]

As one of the creators and producers of the original Electric Daisy Carnival in the early 90’s, electronic artist, producer and DJ Destructo has been a force in dance music for nearly three decades. He […]

As she prepared to lower herself into the kiddy pool full of cornstarch, red food coloring and glitter, Lindsey French was only a little concerned. “I was like ‘You guys, what’s going to happen if […]