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1980s

Sonic Youth: Our 1985 Interview

This article originally appeared in the August 1985 issue of SPIN. The street is filled with broken Malta bottles. The building's doorway is…

Bryron Coley / July 21, 2019

Features

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Jukebox Jury: Lydia Lunch on No Wave, Thurston Moore, Nicolas Jaar, and More

Forty years after moving to New York City as a teenager and leaving an indelible bruise on the gut of rock history with her classic…

Andy Cush / May 31, 2017

Cover Story

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Pissed Jeans: Men Against Boys

Matt Korvette has only been to Big Gay Ice Cream in South Philadelphia once before. It’s 8 p.m. the evening after Valentine’s Day and the…

Maria Sherman / March 9, 2017

Lists

Designed to Kill: 8 Essentials of ZE Records

By the end of the '70s, disco was turning rockier (think Prince, or Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff") new wave was turning dancier (think the B-52's,…

Chuck Eddy / September 27, 2012

Lists

SPIN’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time

To celebrate the new generation of shredders profiled in our May/June "Loud Issue," the SPIN staff decided to find some wheedle in a haystack, taking…

SPIN Staff / May 3, 2012