Pop Spotlight

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 […]

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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 […]

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 […]

Wand – Vertigo Drag City Since their 2014 debut, Ganglion Reef, the L.A.-based Wand have braided garage, psych, and classic rock into a fuzzed-out whole that constantly swings between inspiration and tribute.  More from Spin: Meshell […]

Crack Cloud – Red MileJagjaguwar Crack Cloud began in 2015 as a self-preserving creative outlet. In recent years, the Canadian collective have realized that art is more of a retractor that’s beneficial to examine personal […]

Dr. Dog – Dr. DogWe Buy Gold Records Saying an album was intended to sound like a live recording can be a banal bit of marketing speak, a fatuous cliché that could mean almost anything. […]

Eminem – The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)Shady Records/Aftermath Entertainment/Interscope Records About 20 years ago, Eminem became more boring than he was offensive, and more exhausting than he was entertaining.  Since unloading his […]