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 https://www.spin.com 125 40 Music News, Album Reviews, Concert Photos, MP3s, Videos and More hourly 1 https://www.spin.com/2014/04/kurt-cobain-nirvana-quotes-david-bowie-iggy-pop-joey-ramone/ https://www.spin.com/2014/04/kurt-cobain-nirvana-quotes-david-bowie-iggy-pop-joey-ramone/#respond Thu, 03 Apr 2014 21:14:50 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2014/04/kurt-cobain-nirvana-quotes-david-bowie-iggy-pop-joey-ramone/ brief but brilliant body of work inspired fevered devotion not just in its fans, but in the band's peers. Here, in SPIN's 1995 article, "A Fan's Notes," fellow musicians pay tribute to a classic and revolutionary rock'n'roll band.]]> https://www.spin.com/2014/04/kurt-cobain-nirvana-quotes-david-bowie-iggy-pop-joey-ramone/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2014/04/nirvana-kurt-cobain-death-1994-essay-grain-of-the-voice/ https://www.spin.com/2014/04/nirvana-kurt-cobain-death-1994-essay-grain-of-the-voice/#respond Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:59:23 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2014/04/nirvana-kurt-cobain-death-1994-essay-grain-of-the-voice/ (This piece was originally published in the June 1994 issue of SPIN.) In John Lydon's autobiography, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, he compares Nirvana to Eddie and the Hot Rods, a late-'70s R&B bar band who'd lucked into a little popularity and acclaim during the dawn of British punk, when any group… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2014/04/nirvana-kurt-cobain-death-1994-essay-grain-of-the-voice/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2014/04/nirvana-kurt-cobain-death-1994-essay-revolutionary-debris/ https://www.spin.com/2014/04/nirvana-kurt-cobain-death-1994-essay-revolutionary-debris/#respond Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:53:08 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2014/04/nirvana-kurt-cobain-death-1994-essay-revolutionary-debris/ (This piece was originally published in the June 1994 issue of SPIN.) I still prefer to believe that Kurt Cobain's life was saved by rock'n'roll. I picture him wearing his favorite T-shirt, the one with the image from Daniel Johnston's Hi, How Are You on it, or covering any one of the three… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2014/04/nirvana-kurt-cobain-death-1994-essay-revolutionary-debris/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2014/04/nirvana-kurt-cobain-death-spin-1994-essay-out-of-the-blue/ https://www.spin.com/2014/04/nirvana-kurt-cobain-death-spin-1994-essay-out-of-the-blue/#respond Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:51:31 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2014/04/nirvana-kurt-cobain-death-spin-1994-essay-out-of-the-blue/ (This piece was originally published in the June 1994 issue of SPIN.) "'I don't have the passion anymore,'" sobbed the recorded voice of Courtney Love, reading her husband's suicide note, via audiotape, to the wet-eyed crowd at the candlelight vigil underneath Seattle's Space Needle on April 10. "'It's better to burn out than… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2014/04/nirvana-kurt-cobain-death-spin-1994-essay-out-of-the-blue/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2014/02/rem-method-rites-of-passage-indie-rock-essay-charles-aaron-spin/ https://www.spin.com/2014/02/rem-method-rites-of-passage-indie-rock-essay-charles-aaron-spin/#respond Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:00:00 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2014/02/rem-method-rites-of-passage-indie-rock-essay-charles-aaron-spin/ Athens, Georgia, 1985. The acid had lost its come-hither bouquet and the speed had snapped everyone's nerves like twigs. The run-down Victorians weren't such a steal anymore and the days of buying an armful of thrift-store dresses for a quarter were long gone. Two years before, People magazine had run a photo of a group of… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2014/02/rem-method-rites-of-passage-indie-rock-essay-charles-aaron-spin/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2014/02/drums-and-wires-rocks-dawning-electronic-music-obsession-october-1996/ https://www.spin.com/2014/02/drums-and-wires-rocks-dawning-electronic-music-obsession-october-1996/#respond Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:00:00 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2014/02/drums-and-wires-rocks-dawning-electronic-music-obsession-october-1996/ https://www.spin.com/2014/02/drums-and-wires-rocks-dawning-electronic-music-obsession-october-1996/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2014/02/spin-1993-profile-snoop-doggy-dogg-sir-real-charles-aaron/ https://www.spin.com/2014/02/spin-1993-profile-snoop-doggy-dogg-sir-real-charles-aaron/#respond Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:00:00 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2014/02/spin-1993-profile-snoop-doggy-dogg-sir-real-charles-aaron/ (This article originally appeared in the October 1993 issue of SPIN.)The recording of one of the most anticipated albums in hip-hop history was inching along leisurely. Hours of time were booked at Enterprise Recording in Burbank. But nobody seemed to care that the meter was running. 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