NEWSWIRE

June 19, 2013 – Jim James filled Brooklyn's Prospect Park Bandshell with the holy spirit of his soulful solo LP Regions of Light and Sound of God on Tuesday night (June 18). The My Morning Jacket frontman shared a rainy double-header bill with the Roots for a one-ti...

June 13, 2013 – Forget earthquakes, thrash metal was the biggest, loudest tectonic shift to hit California in the early '80s. Led by Slayer and Metallica, the bands combined the scrappiness of punk with the stomping fury of metal. In Harald Oimoen and Brian Lew's 'M...

June 10, 2013 – Friday's marathon downpour threatened to bury all the Governors Ball headlines in a pit of mud and sweat, but Kanye West elevated the filthy proceedings with his festival-closing set. The newly crowned Yeezus fired up the crowd with a handful of new ...

June 8, 2013 – Queens of the Stone Age's love affair with New York City brought them to Brooklyn Friday night. Following a two-night stint, which included a full live-streamed concert, on Late Show With David Letterman, the ...Like Clockwork chart-climbers took up ...

June 3, 2013 – On May 21, the National celebrated the release of their latest, Trouble Will Find Me, with a three-stop, three-venue tour through New York, the city where they became the band they are today. The jaunt began with a lunchtime set in their longtime Sou...

May 31, 2013 – Stick some smart, passionate kids near the halls of power and you'll probably end up with some amazing punk. Proof of that can be seen in Hard Art, DC 1979, a photobook featuring the work of D.C.-based lensman Lucian Perkins. (Henry Rollins contribut...

May 20, 2013 – Brooklyn's Great GoogaMooga hasn't had the greatest luck. In its debut last year, attendees bitched about long food lines. This year, the Prospect Park fest had one beautiful Friday evening (featuring the Darkness, Flaming Lips, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs),...

May 15, 2013 – The Breeders were kind enough to let SPIN dunk them in the Metropolitan Recreation Center pool in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood for our May cover. Here's a look at the full shoot (including some pics snapped on dry land). Read the full cover s...

May 13, 2013 – Last weekend, a venn diagram of oenophiles and rock fans descended upon Napa Valley for the inaugural Bottle Rock festival, which boasts "a five-day, delicacy-fueled foray into the absolute best music, comedy, wine, food, and beer the world has to of...

May 10, 2013 – ...