Grizzly Bear, Girl Talk Headline Brooklyn's Pool Parties

The popular series of free Sunday shows also nabs Dirty Projectors, Trail of Dead, and more. Click here for more details!
Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste at Bonnaroo / Photo Michael Didyoung

It's only fitting that a concert series based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn -- hipsterdom's Plymouth Rock -- has assembled a lineup stocked with indie faves galore.

Best & Worst from Coachella -- Sunday

The Kills, the Cure, YYYs, Gaslight Anthem, and more -- SPIN recaps all the mayhem in the California desert.
The Kills' Alison Mosshart / The Cure's Robert Smith

THE BEST:

Best Haute Mess: The Kills

5 Bands Kurt Cobain Would Love

The Nirvana frontman would be 42 today. SPIN's David Marchese picks five groups he'd champion, if he were still around.
Kurt Cobain

February 20 marks what would have been Kurt Cobain's 42nd birthday. He died almost fifteen years ago, on April 5, 1994.

New Video: F*cked Up

Watch footage of the hardcore band tearing it up during their marathon New York show!
Fucked Up

You've read our coverage of Fucked Up's 12-hour performance in New York this past October. Now, check out this official video for The Chemistry of Common Life cut "Crooked Head," featuring performance footage from the event!

Fucked Up: Crazy/Beautiful

Blood-splattered gigs. Onstage meltdowns. Airport assaults. Nineteen-minute songs. They're called Fucked Up for a reason. The naked truth behind punk's ballsiest band.
Photo by Kenneth Cappello

Damian Abraham is a formidable­looking dude -- he describes himself, accurately, as "a 300­pound balding lead singer, covered in hair in all the wrong places" -- and when he steps to a basement studio microphone in Toronto, he resembles a squishy giant preparing for combat. Abraham (a.k.a. Pink Eyes, a.k.a.

SPIN.com's Best of the Week, October 13-19

Read about Oasis, Feist, MGMT, Against Me! and more in our NEW EDITORS' BLOG. Plus: Check out the week's top stories and reviews!
Feist, Against Me!, MGMT and Oasis

This week we launched an all-new daily feature on SPIN.com -- an opinionated (and humorous) editors' blog. And SPIN editors certainly had a lot on their minds: Against Me!'s live performance, Feist's influence on childrens' musical tastes, Oasis' staying power, MGMT's seriousness (of lack thereof), and more -- but thankfully, Joe the Plumber isn't included.

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