In the 1980s, music and film collided for cross-promotional blockbusters both transcendent (Purple Rain) and transcendently cheesy (Footloose). In the ‘90s, soundtracks continued to sell…
This week, the puckish, conceptual British electronic duo the KLF reunited after a 23-year absence to throw Liverpool: Welcome To The Dark Ages, a three-day festival featuring events…
Jarvis Cocker, Susanne Sundfør, John Grant, and Richard Hawley performed a tribute concert to Scott Walker at London’s Royal Albert Hall as part of the…
A two-hour BBC Radio program airing on Sunday will feature an interview between Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and his hero/collaborator Scott Walker, the enigmatic former-Walker-Brother-turned-avant-garde-visionary. The…
Feist's new album Pleasure is out April 28, and she's just shared a second new song, "Century." Like the title track, "Century" has a rustic, unplugged feel, which eventually gives…
Jarvis Cocker premiered a moving piece of new music on BBC 6's music show Sunday Service this weekend, a song that the onetime Pulp frontman wrote in response…
As Labor Day Weekend approaches, the summer's last barbecues and beach parties find themselves wanting for the perfect soundtrack. SPIN has you covered with our "100…
In 1994, the distinction between "mainstream" and "alternative" evaporated. Green Day and the Offspring brought hook-heavy punk to the Billboard charts, middle-of-the-road acts such as…
Considering his sartorial choices, it makes sense that Jarvis Cocker would be inclined to moonlight as a lecturer. The organizers of SXSW just announced that…
Jarvis Cocker, Britpop's sharpest penman, was hired by British publisher Faber and Faber as an editor-at-large back in 2011. Now the Pulp frontman has signed…
