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Steven A. Clark Shares His Existential Sadness on Debut LP ‘The Lonely Roller’

"I want love / I need love / But not you," Steven A. Clark laments on "Not You." With his debut LP The Lonely Roller, Clark joins…

Andrew Stone / September 9, 2015

Premieres

Boulevards Wants the Golden Days of Funk on “Sanity”

Boulevards, a.k.a. Jamil Rashad, remembers a time when groovy bass lines, twinkling guitar riffs, and lycra bell bottoms (not, say, EDM bangers) were the signifiers of American and European club…

Andrew Stone / September 4, 2015

Features

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Still Drumming: Georgia Brings London to New York

The audience for Georgia’s headlining performance at Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is hard to pin down. There’s a lanky tall guy in the…

Andrew Stone / August 27, 2015

1980s

Crack, a Tiffany Drug at Woolworth Prices: SPIN’s 1986 Feature

In the late fall of 1985, one of my editors, Rudy Langlais, came to me and said he had a remarkable young writer, Barry Michael…

Barry Michael Cooper / August 13, 2015

1990s

SPIN’s 1991 Feature: ‘The Essence of Dylan’

This article was originally published in SPIN's June 1991 issue. A shiny suit, a bit of lipstick, and a big pompadour hairdo — that’s…

Scott Cohen / July 26, 2015

New Music

Fever the Ghost Enlist Flaming Lips’ Steven Drozd for Spectral ‘Peace Crimes’ Single

Fever the Ghost – a band that has won the admiration of Wayne Coyne and toured with acts like The Flaming Lips, Temples, Sean Lennon…

Andrew Stone / July 21, 2015

1980s

Live Aid: SPIN’s 1986 Investigation Into Relief Aid Abuse, ‘Sympathy for the Devil’

This story was originally published in the September 1986 issue of SPIN, following an exposé on Live Aid's real effect on Ethiopia, which ran in the…

Robert Keating / July 17, 2015