SPIN https://www.spin.com Music News, Album Reviews, Concert Photos, MP3s, Videos and More Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:23:49 +0000 en-US https://assets.spin.com/wp-content/themes/spin/assets/images/spin-logo_feed.png SPINU2’s ‘Songs of Innocence’ Cover Is ‘Gay Propaganda,’ According to Russian Legislator – SPIN https://www.spin.com 125 40 Music News, Album Reviews, Concert Photos, MP3s, Videos and More hourly 1 U2’s ‘Songs of Innocence’ Cover Is ‘Gay Propaganda,’ According to Russian Legislator https://www.spin.com/2015/04/u2-songs-of-innocence-gay-russian-legislator/ https://www.spin.com/2015/04/u2-songs-of-innocence-gay-russian-legislator/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:06:58 +0000 http://www.spin.com/?p=141809 U2 surreptitiously slipping their latest album, Songs of Innocence, into everyone's iTunes libraries, but apparently a Russian right-wing legislator has a problem with it too — for a very different (and very present-day Russian) reason. The Guardian reports that a right-wing Russian legislator, Duma deputy Alexander Starovoitov, has asked Russia's… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2015/04/u2-songs-of-innocence-gay-russian-legislator/feed/ 9