Kurt Cobain Forever Steve Albini wasn’t a star of the American rock underground so much as he was its profane poet laureate and/or its confrontational and unapologetically opinionated conscience. Whether engineering albums by Pixies and the Jesus Lizard or leading his own bands Shellac and Big Black, Albini specialized in capturing the...

The 30 Best Songs of 2022 (So Far) Beabadoobee has a new album on the way. Titled This Is How Tomorrow Moves, it will be released on Aug. 16 through Dirty Hit. The project was produced by Rick Rubin and was recorded at the producer’s Shangri-La studio in Malibu, Ca. Today (May 9), the British artist unveiled the album’s first single,...

Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg On Let It Be's Long Road To Redemption Les Savy Fav – Oui, LSF Frenchkiss/The Orchard It’s been 14 years since the last album from Brooklyn art-punk pranksters Les Savy Fav —and even longer since their heyday in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg scene. Nearly three presidential terms, a pandemic,...

Earl Young: The Man Who Invented Disco’s Beat While working as a session musician in the early 1970s, drummer Earl Young created a unique rhythm that would change the course of popular music. Known today as the “four on the floor,” this simple yet powerful beat consisted of four kick drums per measure, a snare on the second and fourth...

Austin City Limits Taps Dua Lipa, Tyler, the Creator, Chris Stapleton Steve Albini, the legendary and outspoken musician and producer who oversaw Nirvana’s In Utero, Pixies’ Surfer Rosa and PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me, among many other classic albums, died last night (May 7) of a heart attack at the age of 61. The news was confirmed to SPIN...

Angel White on Finding Sustainability for His Mental Health Angel White doesn’t mind when country singers dress up as cowboys, even if they’ve never set foot on a ranch or hoisted themselves up into the saddle. “I think it’s flattering,” he says over Zoom. “The fact that they’re using these things without having done them—that doesn’t...