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He had a purple stain on his forehead. It smelled of beets and vinegar. He’d gotten used to it. He didn’t know it was there. He couldn’t understand why you leaned away and pressed yourself […]

Back in October 2022, the three members of Meet Me @ The Altar received a handwritten note in their dressing room at the When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas. As one of the […]

“I have one song about growing up and a bit about my childhood,” Annie DiRusso says with some apprehension. “Baptized by a pedophile in a church that reeks of oak and death.” She shoots an […]

Blurring the lines between house and indie dance, alt electronic duo Phantoms have been lighting it up since their debut EP, Broken Halo, landed them an early deal with Republic/Casablanca. Without skipping a beat, they’ve […]

The Tubs exist at the intersection of several concurrent crises — urban decay, the housing crisis, the mental health epidemic, the gig economy and the devaluation of the arts, just to name a few. However, […]

Welcome back 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, […]

Karol G wants the world to know that bichotas have feelings too. After breaking into the male-dominated reggaeton scene with her Latina “woman boss” persona on 2020 hit “Bichota,” Karol G lets her emotions fly […]

Starya’s new EP Find the Key is a symphony of syncopation. With its pulsing arps, sidewinding basslines and pop house vocals, the singer-songwriter-producer-DJ-multi-instrumentalist brings something truly fresh to the electronic scene. Hailing from LA, Starya […]

Blue Chips is a monthly rap column that highlights exceptional rising rappers. To read previous columns, click here. BigXthaPlug speaks as he raps. On the phone and on record, the Dallas, Tx native sounds like […]

It’s shaping up to be a huge year for live metal. The amount of stacked festivals and unmissable tours is growing by the week. Baltimore’s venerable Maryland Deathfest may be taking a year off — […]

Ona Tzar is 33 and lives between London and Berlin, a pretty cool pair of places to be young and creative. She describes herself as a polyglot of artistic vessels — performer, producer, singer, “visual […]

Leah Chisholm is so excited to go grocery shopping, she’s literally screaming. “I’m so fucking good, it’s scary,” the Oregon-raised, Austin-based 27-year-old better known as LP Giobbi says over the phone. “I get to be […]