The Smile Debut Paul Thomas Anderson Video, Tease More New Music Thom Yorke – Confidenza OST XL Recordings Thom Yorke’s latest soundtrack opens with “The Big City,” an electro-symphonic slumber of synth bleeps and vocal blips. The album ends with “On the Ledge,” which evokes the sublime nightmare of a free-jazz brass band strutting down a portal into hell. If you could time travel back to the strained, exploratory sessions for Kid A and Amnesiac—his Big Swing albums with Radiohead, where he led his bandmates into dark corridors of sampling, vocal processing, modular synths, and krautrock ..read more

THE BOOK OF RUBIN There aren’t many rock ‘n roll drummers who are recognized names in the average household. Some exceptions to this are Ringo Starr, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Travis Barker, and the most talked about them all, Tommy Lee. Lee’s life has been unintentionally public, and, in the process, people have built a character around him. It’s an interesting one, unequal parts beauty and beast.  More from Spin: Slayer Reunion Highlights Louder Than Life Lineup Welcome To Rockville 2024: Foo Fighters, Mötley Crüe, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit To Headline THE BOOK OF RUBIN Starting this M ..read more

Hovvdy Spin Gold From the Yarn of Time With 10 minutes until Justice’s first show in six years, a swarm of devotees were camped at Coachella’s Outdoor Theater, and more were filing in. Anticipation heavied the air with super fans showing off their † tattoos (Justice’s logo) and homemade Justice tees, as well as a pre-show soundtrack of…the Doobie Brothers, 10cc, and Spandau Ballet. Men in hard hats rushed to hang giant LED screens twice their size. “Do you see these lights?” A security hand turned to the adults, who giggled like schoolchildren, cramped against the front rail. “Wait ‘til you s ..read more

Slash Plays The Blues With Brian Johnson, Steven Tyler On New LP More from Spin: Paul McCartney Lauds Beyoncé’s ‘Magnificent’ Take On ‘Blackbird’ 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Tom Maginnis of Buffalo Tom Slash Plays The Blues With Brian Johnson, Steven Tyler On New LP Name  Mark Tornillo Best known for  Vocalist for Accept since 2009, vocalist and founder of TT Quick and Analog Man. Current city  Readington, N.J. Really want to be in  Anywhere with a beach that’s warm all year long, doing nothing, with a beer in hand! Excited about  Ne ..read more

5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: HAUSER On the March-issued Image Issues LP, Brittany Davis explores the reality of navigating a visual world while blind. Sitting down with SPIN at SXSW, the singer-songwriter explains the album’s concept and how blind people can participate in visual art. “Image Issues, as a title, refers to not only my body dysmorphic type of view of myself,” Davis says. “It’s really difficult for me, as a person who’s never had vision, to envision visual concepts—such as what a woman is supposed to look like, how she’s supposed to present herself each day, why people may look ..read more

The Record Store: Seasoned Owner Tells Us How Much (and How Little) Record Stores Have Changed Hovvdy – Hovvdy Arts & Crafts The songs from Hovvdy, Texas natives Charlie Martin and Will Taylor, lead with their heart. It doesn’t matter if it’s inconvenient or unpolished—life’s too precarious to live any other way. And that approach has led them to their definitive work: their self-titled fifth album.  On “Give It Up,” Martin recalls a tender pep-talk: “‘It’s all in your heart’ / You say, ‘Don’t doubt it, boy / Don’t you know life’s too short?’” The track continues to blossom, each ne ..read more

‘As Pure and Raw as It Can Get’: The Pretty Reckless’s Going to Hell Turns 10 More from Spin: 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: HAUSER The Record Store: Seasoned Owner Tells Us How Much (and How Little) Record Stores Have Changed ‘As Pure and Raw as It Can Get’: The Pretty Reckless’s Going to Hell Turns 10 It’s two hours before doors open, and Ira Bornstein is already lined up outside The Atlantis in Washington, D.C. The grinning 24-year-old is clutching a Drop Nineteens skateboard and a tote bag containing four CDs—including two copies of Drop Nineteens’ 1992 shoegaze masterwork, Delaware—thr ..read more

Trump Administration Moves Forward With TikTok Ban Don’t be surprised if, someday soon, TikTok isn’t there anymore. Governments all over the world have banned or restricted it, and the U.S. government wants to. Some of this is complicated, but most is about politicians expressing fake grave concern about a supposed threat to the U.S. and its children, and won’t someone think of the children? More from Spin: How MGMT’s ‘Little Dark Age’ Became an Unstoppable TikTok Meme Tom Morello Gives Viral Rage Against the Machine TikTok His Stamp of Approval Trump Administration Moves Forward With TikTok ..read more

Where to Next, Charley Crockett? Charley Crockett – $10 Cowboy Son of Davy/Thirty Tigers There’s always someone who’s shit out of luck in Charley Crockett’s songs, but the desperation is especially palpable on $10 Cowboy, his 13th studio album in nine years.  He populates these songs with the usual assortment of ramblers and gamblers, roustabouts and rounders, but these hard-livin’ folks have been hardened by the empty promises of American life in the 2020s. On the Bakersfield-style two-stepper “Ain’t Done Losing Yet,” a woman holding court at a roulette table tells Crockett, “I ain’t ..read more

Sam Barber Is in Go-Mode He’s opened shows for Bruce Springsteen and Ed Sheeran, has been compared to one of his heroes, Zach Bryan, and somehow made it out of a town of roughly 200 people to get to this thrilling moment in his career. But burgeoning country artist Sam Barber, who this week will appear at Stagecoach, remains a bit uncomfortable with his current position in his career. Sitting in Minneapolis venue Fine Line’s basement, the 20-year-old Missouri-bred singer-songwriter admits it’s not uncommon for him to still bask in self-doubt. “I still get in my head like ‘Maybe all this isn’t ..read more