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/2019/02/just-like-heaven-indie-nostalgia-festival-louis-xiv/ https://www.spin.com/2019/02/just-like-heaven-indie-nostalgia-festival-louis-xiv/#respond Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:06:49 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=318898 announced for Saturday, May 4 in Long Beach, California. Its title, Just Like Heaven, seemed like a polite acknowledgement of the band that every band on the bill is influenced by. At the top of the lineup were Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MGMT, and Beach House, and… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2019/02/just-like-heaven-indie-nostalgia-festival-louis-xiv/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2018/01/passion-pit-michael-angelakos-medical-bills-touring/ https://www.spin.com/2018/01/passion-pit-michael-angelakos-medical-bills-touring/#respond Sun, 21 Jan 2018 17:07:48 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=275050 Passion Pit announced a break from touring, with frontman Michael Angelakos saying that he was taking a leave of absence from being a "commercialized artist" in hopes of devoting more time to his mental health. During this break, Angelakos began working with The Wishart Group, a company dedicated to helping provide "legal, educational… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2018/01/passion-pit-michael-angelakos-medical-bills-touring/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2017/03/passion-pit-weneedscience-retweet-tremendous-sea-of-love-download/ https://www.spin.com/2017/03/passion-pit-weneedscience-retweet-tremendous-sea-of-love-download/#respond Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:15:51 +0000 http://www.spin.com/?p=232335 Passion Pit's Michael Angelakos shared an album's worth of unheard material via YouTube videos under an account called "The Wishart Group." All of those videos have since been pulled down, but there is a way to receive the music (titled Tremendous Sea of Love) as a digital download: Hit the retweet. Broad Institute… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2017/03/passion-pit-weneedscience-retweet-tremendous-sea-of-love-download/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2017/02/passion-pit-tremendous-sea-of-love-donald-trump-quote/ https://www.spin.com/2017/02/passion-pit-tremendous-sea-of-love-donald-trump-quote/#respond Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:12:16 +0000 http://www.spin.com/?p=228422 Passion Pit uploaded seven unreleased songs and demos to a YouTube account associated with a new project, a musicians' services company called the Wishart Group (details TBA). Each of the new songs was tagged #seaoflove, and this weekend, frontman Michael Angelakos followed up with a piece of cover artwork collecting all seven tracks under the title Tremendous Sea… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2017/02/passion-pit-tremendous-sea-of-love-donald-trump-quote/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2017/02/passion-pit-inner-dialogue-somewhere-up-there-stream/ https://www.spin.com/2017/02/passion-pit-inner-dialogue-somewhere-up-there-stream/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2017 22:09:42 +0000 http://www.spin.com/?p=226903 Passion Pit have released two new songs, "Somewhere Up There" and "Inner Dialogue." The singles promote not a new album, but a new company: Passion Pit main man Michael Angelakos is launching a venture called the Wishart Group, which aims to provide "legal, educational, and healthcare services" to musicians. (In the past, Angelakos has been open about… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2017/02/passion-pit-inner-dialogue-somewhere-up-there-stream/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2016/12/new-music-passion-pits-michael-angelakos-christmas-in-your-arms/ https://www.spin.com/2016/12/new-music-passion-pits-michael-angelakos-christmas-in-your-arms/#respond Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:53:57 +0000 http://www.spin.com/?p=219916 Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos is planning to release a "Christmas visual album" titled Merry Christmas, Mr. Fields. It will be the artist's first release since Passion Pit's 2015 album, Kindred. Today he's shared the video for the song "Christmas In Your Arms," which follows the previously released "Stained Glass Windows" earlier this week. Both videos feature the… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2016/12/new-music-passion-pits-michael-angelakos-christmas-in-your-arms/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2016/12/passion-pit-michael-angelakos-stained-glass-windows-stream/ https://www.spin.com/2016/12/passion-pit-michael-angelakos-stained-glass-windows-stream/#respond Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:22:43 +0000 http://www.spin.com/?p=219534 Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos is making a Christmas album, and it's out this Friday. Angelakos announced the project today with an original holiday song called "Stained Glass Windows," a sentimental, stripped-down piano number accompanied by dreamy footage of a children's holiday pageant. The 15-track collection is dubbed Merry Christmas, Mr.… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2016/12/passion-pit-michael-angelakos-stained-glass-windows-stream/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2015/11/passion-pits-michael-angelakos-comes-out-as-gay/ https://www.spin.com/2015/11/passion-pits-michael-angelakos-comes-out-as-gay/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2015 22:10:45 +0000 http://www.spin.com/?p=170373 Passion Pit's frontman Michael Angelakos just appeared on the author Bret Easton Ellis' podcast where he discussed a host of topics including mental illness, the tug of war between ideology and aesthetic, false narratives, and more. Most notably, Angelakos discusses his marriage and subsequent divorce, telling Ellis that he's actually gay, detailing the struggles he's faced with… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2015/11/passion-pits-michael-angelakos-comes-out-as-gay/feed/ 3 https://www.spin.com/2015/04/review-passion-pit-kindred/ https://www.spin.com/2015/04/review-passion-pit-kindred/#respond Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:06:08 +0000 http://www.spin.com/?p=140075 7SPIN Rating: 7 of 10Release Date: April 21, 2015Label: ColumbiaOn a casual listen, pretty much everything Passion Pit puts out sounds joyfully, euphorically saccharine — especially when the glittery vocals are in such a high register that it can be hard to make out just what main man Michael Angelakos is singing. There are near-blinding levels… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2015/04/review-passion-pit-kindred/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2015/04/passion-pit-new-album-kindred-streaming-itunes/ https://www.spin.com/2015/04/passion-pit-new-album-kindred-streaming-itunes/#respond Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:03:27 +0000 http://www.spin.com/?p=139652 Passion Pit are streaming their third album, Kindred, on iTunes, a week before the record gets its proper release. So far we've heard three tracks from the Gossamer follow-up — "Lifted Up (1985)," "Until We Can't (Let's Go)," and "Where the Sky Hangs" — but now you can hear the other seven tracks in full. Listen here, and pick up the album… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2015/04/passion-pit-new-album-kindred-streaming-itunes/feed/ 0