https://www.spin.com Music News, Album Reviews, Concert Photos, MP3s, Videos and More Mon, 27 Jan 2020 19:57:21 +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/featured/tracy-chapman-self-titled-july-1988-interview/ https://www.spin.com/featured/tracy-chapman-self-titled-july-1988-interview/#respond Sun, 18 Aug 2019 19:42:03 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?post_type=featured&p=339446 This article originally appeared in the July 1988 issue of SPIN. It's not easy to pay Tracy Chapman a compliment. Try to tell the twenty-four-year-old singer/songwriter from Boston that her debut album contains some of the most riveting music you've heard in quite some time and the response is a sudden darting away… ]]> https://www.spin.com/featured/tracy-chapman-self-titled-july-1988-interview/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2014/07/sleepify-vulfpeck-michelle-shocked-spotify-money/ https://www.spin.com/2014/07/sleepify-vulfpeck-michelle-shocked-spotify-money/#respond Fri, 25 Jul 2014 18:57:59 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2014/07/sleepify-vulfpeck-michelle-shocked-spotify-money/ Sleepify, the silent album funk band Vulfpeck created for the sole purpose of gaming the Spotify payout system to earn them some cash (and fund a non-silent tour)? Well, it turns out that, despite getting removed from the streaming service after about two months, the scam worked, earning Michigan-born crew in excess of $20,000. It's pretty… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2014/07/sleepify-vulfpeck-michelle-shocked-spotify-money/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2013/04/michelle-shocked-gay-marriage-piers-morgan/ https://www.spin.com/2013/04/michelle-shocked-gay-marriage-piers-morgan/#respond Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:33:47 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2013/04/michelle-shocked-gay-marriage-piers-morgan/ https://www.spin.com/2013/04/michelle-shocked-gay-marriage-piers-morgan/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2013/03/michelle-shocked-protest-canceled-venue-anti-gay-slur/ https://www.spin.com/2013/03/michelle-shocked-protest-canceled-venue-anti-gay-slur/#respond Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:10:36 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2013/03/michelle-shocked-protest-canceled-venue-anti-gay-slur/ https://www.spin.com/2013/03/michelle-shocked-protest-canceled-venue-anti-gay-slur/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2013/03/michelle-shocked-gay-rant-apology-interview/ https://www.spin.com/2013/03/michelle-shocked-gay-rant-apology-interview/#respond Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:22:59 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2013/03/michelle-shocked-gay-rant-apology-interview/ clearly did not go as planned. At least not as planned by either the audience or the staff of Yoshi's. It has been reported that, at the outset of the evening, Shocked asked for a volunteer to join… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2013/03/michelle-shocked-gay-rant-apology-interview/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2013/03/audio-of-michelle-shocked-anti-gay-rant-listen-stream/ https://www.spin.com/2013/03/audio-of-michelle-shocked-anti-gay-rant-listen-stream/#respond Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:27:35 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2013/03/audio-of-michelle-shocked-anti-gay-rant-listen-stream/ an apology following widespread reports of a homophobic rant that blindsided San Franciscan concertgoers on Sunday. "I am damn sorry," she said. "I do not, nor have I ever, said or believed that God hates homosexuals (or anyone else). I said that some of His followers believe that. I believe intolerance comes… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2013/03/audio-of-michelle-shocked-anti-gay-rant-listen-stream/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2013/03/michelle-shocked-apology-anti-gay-homophobic-rant-san-francisco/ https://www.spin.com/2013/03/michelle-shocked-apology-anti-gay-homophobic-rant-san-francisco/#respond Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2013/03/michelle-shocked-apology-anti-gay-homophobic-rant-san-francisco/ controversial rant at a Sunday night San Francisco concert. It was widely reported, by USA Today and others, that in addition to saying that "God hates fags," the alt-folk singer professed that, "When they stop Prop 8 and force priests at gunpoint to marry gays,… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2013/03/michelle-shocked-apology-anti-gay-homophobic-rant-san-francisco/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2013/03/michelle-shocked-anti-gay-rapture-tour-canceled/ https://www.spin.com/2013/03/michelle-shocked-anti-gay-rapture-tour-canceled/#respond Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:04:33 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2013/03/michelle-shocked-anti-gay-rapture-tour-canceled/ UPDATE: Michelle Shocked has issued a statement apologizing for her remarks, which she says were misinterpreted. Read it in full here. But newly surfaced audio of the anti-gay rant seems to contradict and confuse her most recent comments.At least 10 venues have canceled previously scheduled Michelle Shocked concerts following homophobic speech made by the former alt-folk… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2013/03/michelle-shocked-anti-gay-rapture-tour-canceled/feed/ 0