Body Meat – StarchrisPartisan Records Chris Taylor likes leaning into sonic chaos—fusing dance, metal, and trap to shape Body Meat’s strikingly tumultuous electronic pop. More from Spin: SPIN Returns to Print for the First Time […]
Zeal & Ardor Sound Burdened By Black-Metal Roots on ‘GREIF’
Zeal & Ardor – GREIF Redacted GmbH Rejection of metal orthodoxy is baked into the concept of Zeal & Ardor, the onetime solo project of Swiss-born musician Manuel Gagneux, who now oversees a full six-piece […]
For Melt-Banana, ‘3 + 5’ Equals Amped-Up Exhilaration
Melt-Banana – 3 + 5 A-Zap Call it Japanoise, hardcore, noise-rock, grind-core, noise-punk (as yours truly did above) or what have you, but after 30 years of banging out inordinate chunks of brain-melting genius, Melt-Banana have […]
Fontaines D.C. Leave Post-Punk Behind on the Exhilarating ‘Romance’
Fontaines D.C. – RomanceXL Where do you go after you’ve made a debut like Dogrel? More from Spin: Lee DeWyze’s ‘Gone For Days’ Is An Introspective Love Letter To the Moon Unit Zappa and Back […]
Tinashe Continues Her Winning Streak With ‘Quantum Baby’
Apt to mix the erotic and the romantic, a woman for whom an empty bed is an existential hostility, Tinashe Jorgensen Kachingwe is the Christine McVie of modern R&B. The late Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter, poet […]
Garbagebarbie Rises From the Rubbish
How does an unknown band, one that’s never headlined an established venue, manage to sell out their first show at the Echo in Los Angeles? For garbagebarbie, the quartet of Fletcher Milloy (singer/guitar), Daniel Karasev […]
Oso Oso Return to a Sweet Spot on ‘Life Till Bones’
Oso Oso – Life Till BonesYunahon Entertainment It’s starting to feel like Jade Lilitri was born with a bottomless bag of perfect pop-rock hooks slung over his shoulder. More from Spin: Update: Eddie Vedder Leads […]
Mal Not Bad’s Debut Holds Our Hand Through the Pain
Mal Not Bad – This Is Your New Life(Same Same) Even when we’re old enough to understand that many things are out of our control, it doesn’t make it easy to accept that life is […]
Fucked Up Live to Fight ‘Another Day’
Fucked Up – Another Day Fucked Up Records Fucked Up’s sixth LP, 2023’s One Day, stands as one of the boldest formal experiments in their discography—a not-insignificant distinction for a band renowned for their genre-bending provocations […]
Blood’s ‘Loving You Backwards’ Is Confounding and Often Thrilling
Blood – Loving You BackwardsRamp Local There’s something terrifying about Blood’s debut album, Loving You Backwards. More from Spin: Universal Lands Film Adaptation Of Britney Spears Memoir Tomin Breaks Down the Building Blocks of Jazz […]
Tomin Breaks Down the Building Blocks of Jazz
Tomin – Flores para Verene / Cantos para CaraminaInternational Anthem When he’s not playing horns of one kind or another in the adventurous jazz/hip-hop collective Standing on the Corner, 27-year-old Tomin makes a living as […]
There’s No Putting Brigitte Calls Me Baby In A Corner
A decade ago, Wes Leavins was just a high school student in Port Arthur, Texas who was obsessively spinning his family’s record collection, trying to finding his voice and looking for a way out of […]