The Scene Report: Pretty Ugly Play The Viper Room April 26, 2024 Photo: Dave Gabriel The Scene Rising LA indie-band Pretty Ugly, bring down a packed house at the iconic Viper Room in Hollywood. The Report Since opening its doors in 1993, The Viper Room has featured the likes of Johnny Cash, Tom...

White Punks on Dope: Our 1999 The Offspring Cover Story This article originally appeared in the December 1998 edition of SPIN. It’s been four years since the Offspring brought punk-rock and Mohawks to Main Street. Nowadays it’s getting a little lonely in the mosh pit. Fast-and-furious is about as fashionable as Doc Martens at a...

Iron & Wine Find Hope in Despair in Hope in Despair When garage-punk rockers NOBRO are asked if artists today are nervous to say what’s really on their minds, singer/bassist Kathryn McCaughey doesn’t hesitate, immediately answering with a “yes.” Sitting backstage with SPIN at SXSW, McCaughey elaborates on that sentiment, noting...

Watch Calexico and Iron & Wine's Tiny Desk Concert Iron & Wine – Light Verse Sub Pop It would be taking things too far to categorize Light Verse as a “post-pandemic” album. Yet its emergent themes resonate with that time’s corollary yearning for hope and community amid profound loneliness. Timeless as that territory may be, there’s...

Gracie Abrams' 'Happy/Sad Songs' Playlist More from Spin: Gracie Abrams’ ‘Happy/Sad Songs’ Playlist On her new single “Risk,” 24-year-old pop singer Gracie Abrams sings about a love interest with such tortured yearning—“I wake up in the middle of the night / With the light on / And I feel like I could...

Beyond The Sea Maybe there’s some irony in the fact that the first time Jon Muq ever flew on an airplane, his destination was a cruise ship that would take him on a months-long journey at sea. The Ugandan artist, whose debut album, FLYING AWAY (Easy Eye Sound) is out on May 31, has never let the endpoint confine the journey.  “I...