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America’s 250th birthday celebration is locked and loaded — and if you’ve ever wondered what would happen if a county fair and a casino brunch buffet collided on the National Mall, Donald Trump's Freedom 250 has your answer.

It serves as the artist's proper acting debut, although her specific role has yet to be detailed.

The Cramps are clawing their way back from the crypt in a major way.

The trio of Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer will perform it in full for the first time during a ...

More than four decades after the Durutti Column first emerged from the orbit of Factory Records, the singular project led by Vini Reilly is returning with its first new album in 16 years.

As Philip Glass approaches his 90th birthday next January, the minimalist giant will be celebrated by a ...

While some people are focused on curating a list of hypothetical music to bring to a deserted island someday, Hayden Arnot has been busy bringing live music back to the popular island of Nantucket right now. In the ’90s, the harbor city—tucked off the southeast side of Massachusetts—was home to a popular concert venue called […]

When the Beastie Boys first relocated to Los Angeles at the end of the 1980s, they were an outrageous New York hip-hop trio in search of escape and reinvention. What came after was some of their most daring and unexpected music. The Beasties began the transformation from their early platinum success with 1989’s Paul’s Boutique, […]

What’s in a name? That’s a question most famously posed by William Shakespeare, but most recently posed by me. Spending my whole life as a music obsessive—and now SPIN’s social media lead—I’ve always been fascinated by the origins of bands: what town they come from, how they decide their album cover art, the timeline of […]

With a PhD from Brown, museum exhibitions, and field recordings made for the Nat Geo Network, Brian House is a sound artist legend. His studies in the rhythms of human systems have led him into “entanglements with the nonhuman world,” via self-devised technologies.  “I’m trying to communicate sounds that are all around us, but which […]