SPIN

Happy December! SPIN are celebrating the first day of the last month of the year by putting out their Top 50 Albums of 2015 list. It’s a diverse list, with the top 10 ranging from DIY-indie (Alex G) to mainstream country (Kacey Musgraves) to leftfield major label rap (Vince Staples and Kendrick …

Lollapalooza is taking over Chicago’s Grant Park this weekend with headliners Metallica, Paul McCartney Sam Smith, The Weeknd, Florence & the Machine, and more…

SPIN returned with their Top Albums of 2014 list today. It’s got a lot of the indie albums that usually show up on these lists (Caribou, Future Islands, FKA twigs, Parquet Courts, Cloud Nothings, How to Dress Well, Swans,…

Interpol @ Governors Ball (more by Dana (Distortion) Yavin) In addition to their appearance at Lollapalooza and official festival aftershow at the House of Blues on July 30, Interpol will also be playing a pre-Lolla SPIN/Red Bull Sound Select show at Thalia Hall on July 31…

House of Vans last year (more by Greg Cristman) Like last year, Vans is sponsoring the Mohawk all week during SXSW Music with different presenters curating the day and night lineups…

SPIN put together a pretty killer lineup for their annual ‘Year in Music’ show this year. Taking place at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn on 12/10, the bill included rising pop star Charli XCX (whose set included the hit song that not many people realize she wrote for Icona Pop), indie legends Superchunk (who recently made a new video), and one of 2013’s greatest and most fun rap stars Danny Brown (who Charli XCX also joined on stage towards the end of the night)…

It’s the first work week of December and the year-end music lists for 2013 keep piling in. We just saw album lists from Q and Mojo, and now we get a list from a US publication, S…

Dave Hill & Billy Jones will reunite in New Orleans (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, and The Cure co-headline the Voodoo festival in New Orleans this weekend…

As recently posted on BrooklynVegan, Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock aka all of Black Hippy will all be at SXSW 2013. It has now also been confirmed that “On Friday, March 15, Kendrick Lamar will headline SPIN’s annual musical bacchanal at the legendarily finger-lickin’ Stubb’s BBQ…

We already posted one-and-a-half sets of photos from the private SPIN‘s “The Year in Music” party that happened on Monday (12/10) at Bowery Ballroom with Grizzly Bear and Santigold, but here’s another set, these from Ryan Muir…