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Eddie Vedder with musicians from Guitars Over Guns (photo: Columbia College Chicago) Eddie Vedder marked the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago today (June 18) with an original collaboration with young musicians from Guitars Over Guns. The Pearl Jam frontman joined members of the Miami-based arts and mentorship nonprofit for “Better Believe,” which debuted live during the dedication ceremony and is now available across streaming platforms. The Obama Foundation broug

Nelly performs in Atlanta on Sept. 12, 2025 (photo: Paras Griffin / Getty Images). Dust off the burned CDs and flip phones: a new festival devoted to the sounds and culture of the late ’90s and early 2000s is heading to California, Arizona and Texas this fall. Dubbed Dial Up Festival, the three-stop event promises a nostalgia-heavy mix of pop, hip-hop, rock and alternative acts that defined the pre-streaming era. Each edition will be headlined by Nelly and Sugar Ray, with supporti

New Mars Volta Mystery Deepens With Fan-Powered Vote The Mars Volta continues to keep fans guessing. After launching a cryptic teaser site on June 8 featuring a countdown clock that expired the following day, the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, and Cedric Bixler-Zavala-led band has slowly been revealing pieces of what appears to be a larger project still shrouded in secrecy.The interactive platform allows fans to hear and vote on live recordings drawn from 2025 performances of material from Lucro

Sia at the Christian Siriano SS24 Runway Show on Sept. 8. 2023 (photo: Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images for Christian Siriano). Ten years after transforming the Coachella main stage into something more like performance art, Sia is bringing the experience to movie theaters. Trafalgar Releasing has announced Sia: Nostalgic for the Present, a remastered cinematic presentation of the singer’s landmark 2016 Coachella set. The limited theatrical event opens July 23 in select cinemas worldwide.

(photo: Travis Shinn) Sleep is awakening. The influential stoner rock outfit has released “Have Spacesuit Will Travel,” its first new music since 2018’s The Sciences and the first recording from a revamped lineup led by bassist and songwriter Al Cisneros. The track arrives via Third Man Records alongside the announcement of a fall North American tour and the debut issue of the Sleep Comic Book, written by Cisneros. “Have Spacesuit Will Travel” marks the beginning of a new era for th

Blaze Foley (photo: C.P. Vaughn) More than three decades after his death, Blaze Foley’s songs continue to find new believers. The late Austin songwriter — whose reputation has only grown in the years since his 1989 murder through posthumous releases and tributes from admirers like Townes Van Zandt and Lucinda Williams — will be celebrated on the new compilation Sittin’ With Blaze, due digitally Aug. 7 via Lost Art Records, with a physical edition to follow in the fall.More from Spin

SPIN Launches First Dance Music Minimag Series with ZHU at Sound Nightclub In the first of an ongoing series, SPIN Magazine held its first Dance Music Minimag series event at the legendary Sound Nightclub in Hollywood. With international headliner ZHU stepping into the booth at midnight, fans were treated to a two-hour set covering a wide range of of ZHU’s original material.Photo: Jacob HooverMore from Spin: Snapped: Ultra Music Festival Miami Is a Dance Music Crown Jewel

DJ Shadow (photo: Xavi Torrent / WireImage). Three decades after Endtroducing….. forever changed the possibilities of instrumental hip-hop and sample-based music, and a decade after The Mountain Will Fall reintroduced him to a new generation, DJ Shadow is taking a look backward—and forward—at the same time. The pioneering producer has unveiled “Nobody Speak Part 2,” a revamped take on one of the defining tracks from 2016’s The Mountain Will Fall. The new version retains the co

(photo: Daniel Zuchnik / contributor) Mystikal has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to a reduced charge in a Louisiana rape case, closing a legal chapter that began with his 2022 arrest on multiple felony counts.According to WBRZ TV, the rapper, born Michael Tyler, was sentenced yesterday (June 16) in Gonzales, La., after entering a guilty plea earlier this year to third-degree rape. The plea deal resolved allegations stemming from a July 2022 incident at his P

The Roots' Questlove (photo: Mitchell Leff / Getty Images) Phish’s annual Riviera Maya destination event has always been about more than the band, but the newly announced after-hours lineup for its 10th anniversary edition may be the festival’s most eclectic yet.Organizers have revealed that LCD Soundsystem frontman and DFA Records co-founder James Murphy and Roots drummer, filmmaker and DJ extraordinaire Questlove will handle late-night DJ duties at Phish: Riviera Maya

SPIN Canada June Cover Story: Juno-Winning Palestinian-Canadian Singer Nemahsis Finds Allies and Fellow ‘Freaks’ With Her Intimate Songs of Alienation Who: Nemahsis (Nemah Hasan) Sounds like: Kate Bush, Sarah Harmer, FeistMore from Spin: In Boulder, Folsom Field Returns As A Magical Concert Venue Humdrum Book Club’s Andrew Ross on Tape, Texture and Truth Horse Lords’ Heaven Can’t Wait Essential spins: coloured concrete; what if i

Mumford & Sons on June 6, 2026, at Boulder's Folsom Field (photo: Alden Bonecutter). About halfway through Mumford & Sons’ June 6 set at Folsom Field in Boulder, Co., Marcus Mumford paused and took in the view. “Look at this place,” he told the crowd of more than 40,000 gathered beneath the Flatiron Mountans. “This is hallowed ground and we know it. There’s nowhere in the world we’d rather be.” The sun was setting behind the pea

Photo Courtesy of Humdrum BookClub In an age of AI and ever-advancing technology, Andrew Ross still believes in the value of the authentic, tangible, and affecting. Over the past few decades, entertainment, whether movies, TV, or music, has become increasingly dictated by corporate mechanics and algorithms. What were once thought of as pure artistic expressions, acts of creativity that took ambitious swings and hoped to find resonance with audiences through that authenticity, have

Horse Lords. (Credit: Kasia Zacharko) By the time of the release of Horse Lords’ last proper album, 2022’s Comradely Objects, three-fourths of the group—saxophonist Andrew Bernstein, bassist Max Eilbacher and guitarist Owen Gardner—had left their native Baltimore for Germany, leaving only drummer Sam Haberman in Charm City. Such a fracture would normally sink a band, especially one that had been active for a decade, with five ambitious, esoteric albums to their credit and a

Bassist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer Neil Peart from Rush in Cleveland, Ohio on December 17, 1977. (Credit: Fin Costello/Redferns) Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson formed Rush in 1968 with drummer John Rutsey completing the original lineup. After releasing the band’s heavy, blues-based 1974 self-titled debut, though, Rutsey lef

ME. (Credit: Amber Patrick) Name  Mark O’Connell from the band ME.Best known for be  Drummer, Taking Back Sunday.More from Spin: In Boulder, Folsom Field Returns As A Magical Concert Venue Horse Lords’ Heaven Can’t Wait Deep Cut Friday: “By-Tor and the Snow Dog” by Rush Current city  Long Island, New York.Really want to be  Hanging out with my girl and kids in London and playing a show with ME.Excited a

40 Shows in 40 Days ⚽ This week kicks off the FIFA World Cup, arguably the biggest sporting spectacle on the planet. With 48 teams and 104 matches, cities across North America are about to become one giant, global stage.From now until July 19, soccer is going to take over culture in a way most Americans might not quite comprehend.More from Spin: SPIN Canada June Cover Story: Juno-Winning Palestinian-Canadian Singer Nemahsis Finds Allies and Fellow ‘Freaks’ With Her Intimate Song

The Strokes in 2023 (photo: Kristy Sparow / Getty Images). When The Strokes unveiled their 2026 world tour earlier this spring, New York fans immediately noticed one glaring omission: no hometown show. That gap has now been filled in emphatic fashion.The band has announced a massive Oct. 2 performance at Queens’ Flushing Meadows Corona Park, turning the evening into something closer to a one-day festival than a standard tour stop. Joining the Strokes on the bill are Beach House, r

Adam Rubenstein (photo: Mike Rudy) Chamberlain guitarist/songwriter Adam Rubenstein will end a 10-year hiatus from solo releases this summer with the Aug. 14 arrival of Firebreak on Spartan Records. The album is led by the single “Still,” which chronicles the Indiana-reared musician’s decision to relocate to Ohio after having spent more than two decades in New York.“It’s a song about moving and starting over, and coming to terms with the anxiety around that

Nina Nastasia and Jim White Make Brittle Magic on ‘You Follow Me’ You Follow Me’s elusiveness for LP collectors feels appropriate. Released in 2007 by FatCat and featuring lithe production by Steve Albini, this collaboration saw a limited run on vinyl, making it expensive today for collectors to find a copy. Featuring Nina Nastasia’s deeply emotional and spare songwriting, You Follow Me is bolstered by Jim White’s masterful drumming. Now, with Temporary Residence’s limited reissue, fan