The Nashville-based singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins has been making really good music for a long time. It’s the kind of sharp ...

Once upon a time, SPIN picked Nirvana’s Nevermind as the second-best album of 1991. Nevermind was clearly a great and important record, but as far as the SPIN editors were concerned, it couldn’t quite ...

The idea of a new Olivia Tremor Control was basically unthinkable, but it's happening anyway. The lo-fi psychedelic pop band was a key driving force in Athens, Georgia's Elephant 6 collective in the ...

The British-Australian musical artist Hana Stretton specializes in ambient folk, seemingly merging samples, field recordings, ...

Texas duo Will Taylor and Charlie Martin, aka Hovvdy, don’t make nostalgic music, but there’s a sentimental time-shiftiness ...

See the photo credit up there? "Martin Sorrondeguy" — the same Martin Sorrondeguy, presumably, from Los Crudos and Limp Wrist. (I don't think there's two Martin Sorrondeguys.) That means that Ceremony ...

Dave Kendall, the journalist and former MTV VJ who created and hosted the iconic alternative rock video show 120 Minutes, has died. Matt Pinfield, who served as a 120 Minutes host years after Kendall, ...

A seven-minute-long alt-country dirge, let’s go. “Portal To The Past” is the newest single from Lily Seabird’s highly ...

It looks like Lebohang Morake, the South African musician known as Lebo M, does not have a sense of humor. Earlier this year the singer of the Zulu chant that opens Elton John’s The Lion King song ...

If you’re looking to have a morbid Monday, you’ve come to the right place. “There is no cure/ Not for this curse/ When will ...

We never go long without a new Ty Segall release announcement, and last month we got two at once. Segall, the rock 'n' roll living legend, will release his new album Chrome next month. On the same day ...

Jay-Z is in the midst of his three-night residency at Yankee Stadium. The first night was a family affair, with Beyoncé and ...