June 17, 2013 – Dallas duo A.Dd+ link up with Dirty South production ace DJ Burn One on brand-new heater "Where You Been." Slim Gravy and Paris Pershun extol the virtues of strong weed and a bit of lean over a slow-burning and glistening beat. Stream it below.

June 13, 2013 – Nylo's a lover scorned. The 22-year-old R&B singer-producer laments a booze-fueled relationship that moved a bit too fast on "Take It Back," the latest heater from her Indigo Summer mixtape, due July 16. Over a loop of shouting children, her crystalline vocals cut through chilly synths and the click'n'buzz of a bass-rattling backbeat, Nylo yearning for the simpler times before this doomed dalliance. She might wanna take it back, but we think we'll keep this one. 

June 7, 2013 – Despite not having appeared on screen since 1997 Rick Moranis will forever occupy a nebbish-loving spot in the minds of movie fans as a result of his work in '80s classics like Ghostbusters and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. The funnyman shifted his (sporadic) work focus to music over the past decade, earning a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album for 2005's wry The Agoraphobic Cowboy. On June 18 Moranis will release the only slightly more serious My Mother's Brisket & Other Love Songs (Warner Bros. Records/LoudMouth), which finds the 60-year-old hopping genres from jazz to folk to rumba as he ruminates on food, religion, and love.

May 17, 2013 – According to Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha — the newly released film she stars in and cowrote with its director (and her boyfriend) Noah Baumbach — has a soundtrack that's "grand and romantic sounding." Which in this case apparently means pop-rock titans like Paul McCartney, David Bowie, and T. Rex. The music of her own life is more varied, though just as effervescent. A few days before her film's May 17 opening, Gerwig, 29, spoke to us about her dad's Alanis dis and her own admittedly poor taste in karaoke songs.When you were growing up did your parents object to anything you were listening to?They were pretty much cool with everything I was listening to. I remember being crazy about Alanis Morissette and playing the Jagged Little Pill cassette tape in the car on the way to junior high a lot. I told my dad I'd read in a magazine that she'd written one of the songs in only ten minutes.

May 13, 2013 – Last August, comedian Tig Notaro took the stage at Largo in Los Angeles and got serious, discussing her breast cancer (she's better now) and the then-recent passing of her mother. Louis C.K. saw the set and was so moved he put a recording of it up for sale on his own website. The hilariously deadpan Notaro, 42, will be physically releasing that performance, called LIVE, for the first time this summer on Secretly Canadian. She's also spending the warm-weather months on the road doing in-concert tapings of her podcast, Professor Blastoff. Tig called from a stop in Napa, California, and discussed the music of her life.What's the last song you listened to?Willie Nelson's "Always on My Mind." That song makes me think of my mother.

April 29, 2013 – "We probably have more stage jumpers and crowd surfers than anyone in country music," brags Eric Church good-naturedly over the phone from his Nashville home. The country star rang SPIN to discuss his career, which has seen the North Carolina-born 35-year-old go from scuffling songwriter-for-hire to boss man with his third studio album, 2011's Chief, and its Country No. 1 single "Springsteen." The aforementioned live touch has always been there though, and Church-goers are heard loud and proud on the recently released in-concert album Caught In The Act.Currently readying a new studio album for the fall, Church took time out to tell us what he's learned along the road.Push the envelope.I think it's our job as artists to do something different and take the music somewhere it hasn't been.

April 10, 2013 – The multi-talented Emmy Rossum could use a breather. It's a good thing then, that the Showtime network's Shameless, on which she plays a dutiful sister holding a family of miscreants together in Chicago, just tied a bow on its third season. Earlier this very busy year the New York City native dropped her second full-length album, the standards collection Sentimental Journey. While back in her hometown, the singer-actress cleared some space in her schedule to chat about her life in music.What's your favorite song?Probably "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid because that was the first song I loved as a kid. When I hear it, I try to take it out of the Disney context and just think of the sentiment of the song.

April 9, 2013 – Brooklyn noise-rap veteran El-P and Atlanta mic-ripper Killer Mike, both fresh off the wild critical success of the latter's R.A.P. Music, are currently in Nick Hook's North Brooklyn studio working on their first proper album as a duo — under the new group name Run the Jewels."It's probably like the hardest shit you can possibly say," says El-P about the name, sinking into the studio's couch."If you're a 35- to 45-year-old, you know what sitting on public transportation feeling fresh as fuck feels, and then hearing one of those infamous phrases like 'What size jacket is that?' 'What size shoes are those?' Or, 'Run those jewels,' says Mike. "You know it's a shakedown and there is nothing nice about it.""It's kind of a nod to our age," adds El-P.

March 26, 2013 – When the time came to record their ninth full-length album, Alkaline Trio opted to congregate in snow-dusted Fort Collins, Colorado, an idyllic college town about an hour outside of Denver. And there, in the "foothills of the Rocky Mountains," the Chicago-bred outfit teamed up with punk legend Bill Stevenson (Black Flag, Descendents, All) at Blasting Room Studios to capture what would become My Shame Is True, a sabre-toothed improvement on 2010's back-to-basics, return-to-form effort This Addiction, as well as what sounds to be frontman and chief songwriter Matt Skiba’s most personal set to date. Below, stream the album in its entirety (exclusively for 24 hours!) and read Skiba's thoughts on those dark times that helped birth it. After nine albums, why put out a more personal record now?For the songs I write there's this unintentional theme.

March 20, 2013 – Vanessa Hudgens, the former Disney Channel mainstay and High School Musical kewpie, co-stars in Harmony Korine's sensationally sordid Spring Breakers, which opens nationwide on March 22. The movie follows the stoned exploits of Hudgens' character, Candy, and three of her college roommates as they go buck on school vacation, landing themselves in trouble with those on both sides of the law. (James Franco and Gucci Mane play a pair of very bad dudes.) Hudgens, 24, hopped on the phone with SPIN to share the soundtrack to her life.What's your favorite album of all time?Probably The Beatles' [remix compilation] Love because I can listen to it over and over again and know I'll never get sick of it. "Something" is my favorite track.