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Fresh off a packed European tour, “NARUTO The Symphonic Experience” is set for a North American run in 2025. The live orchestral experience immerses visitors in a two-hour journey through the beloved anime, which is currently celebrating the 20th anniversary of its original TV adaptation. Beginning February 28th in Evansville, Indiana, “NARUTO The Symphonic Experience”

Gracie Abrams and Hozier will serve as the musical guests on the final Saturday Night Live episodes of 2024, with Abrams joining host Chris Rock on Dec. 14 and Hozier augmenting Martin Short on Dec. 21. Shaboozey was previously announced as the musical guest on this Saturday’s (Dec. 7) edition, which will be hosted by

My Chemical Romance has made a statement regarding the death of Bob Bryar, who was the longest-tenured drummer of the legendary emo act. “It is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to Bob Bryar, our former bandmate and an important part of the history of My Chemical Romance,” the band wrote in a

Name  Adam Gontier Best known for  Three Days Grace Current city  Nashville, TN Really want to be in  I’d travel back in time two months, and head to Northern Ontario Canada to do some fishing. Excited about  Rejoining Three Days Grace, creating new music, and touring the world in 2025.  My current music collection has a lot of  New rock/metal. And a little bit

Last month, The Cure celebrated the release of their comeback album, Songs of a Lost World, by playing an intimate concert at Troxy London. Now, the band has announced a companion release collecting all eight songs from their new album as they were performed at the show. Aptly titled Songs of a Live World: Troxy

Will Cullen Hart, who co-founded the beloved and influential Athens, Ga.-reared collective Elephant 6 and played with its associated bands Olivia Tremor Control and Circulatory System, died this morning (Nov. 29) at the age of 53. Per a statement from longtime friend and collaborator Robert Schneider of the Apples in Stereo, Hart passed away from

Bob Bryar, the longest-tenured drummer of My Chemical Romance, who played in the band between 2004 and 2010, has died at the age of 44. According to TMZ, Bryar was found dead at his home in Tennessee on November 27th. He had last been seen alive on November 4th, and his body was reportedly discovered

The 2025 edition of Las Vegas’ Sick New World festival, which was to feature headlining sets from Metallica and the reunited Linkin Park, has been canceled by organizers Live Nation. The third edition of the massive, single-day event was set for April 12 and was to have boasted more than 50 acts, including Queens of the Stone Age, Gojira, AFI,

Fresh off releasing his latest album, Highway Prayers, this past September, Billy Strings has stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thanksgiving night a performance of his song, “Seven Weeks in County.” Taking the Tonight Show stage alongside his band, Strings brought the dark, gritty bluegrass sound of “Seven Weeks in County” to

BANDCAMP Bandcamp spent its first 15 years gradually becoming the go-to site for indie or indie-adjacent musicians and bands to connect with fans, artists that may or may not have ever gotten the nod from major labels or commercial radio but who now could bypass those gatekeepers altogether and keep a sizable chunk of their

Ted Lasso’s Brett Goldstein has finally confirmed a popular fan theory: That the Apple TV+ hit was directly inspired by The Wizard of Oz. “Oh yeah, there’s loads and loads of The Wizard of Oz in Ted Lasso,” Goldstein told Entertainment Weekly. “The pinball machine is the one that’s always ‘Ted has to go home. There’s no place like

In 2024 musicians such as Charli XCX improbably topped worldwide charts with a cheeky remix album, and U.K. upstart Fred again sold nearly 78,000 tickets for a stadium show in Los Angeles. Even Billie Eilish hit the club with an extended version of the jam “L’AMOUR DE MA VIE” from her new album, while Tale

 Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | More Platforms Since the dawn of time, many have pondered an important question: What is the most ska film? There are many contenders, but one that is certainly near the top of any list is Bandslam, the 2009 cult-comedy about a group of high school students who compete in a battle

Banjo virtuoso Steve Wilson’s Wilson Banjo Co. is well on its way to establishing itself as one of the early 21st century’s best bluegrass acts. The competition is fiercer than the casual observer may think. This particular corner of Americana music has several budding champions looking to pick up the mantle and carry bluegrass even

Tom Zoellner is a tenured Professor of English at Chapman University, the author of numerous distinguished works of non-fiction, and an editor-at-large of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Professor Zoellner has graciously consented to briefly withdraw his critical gaze from high art and cast an eye for SPIN at pop and rock lyrics. “Don’t

The upcoming Showtime prequel series Dexter: Original Sin, if nothing else, promises a return to Miami and murder, while never passing up an opportunity to remind viewers of the original show’s glory days. In this new trailer, we get a solid tease of Patrick Gibson taking on the younger version of serial-killer-for-good Dexter Morgan, along

Lainey Wilson misses her horse. Back home in Baskin, Louisiana, she keeps a brown quarter horse on the family farm, Tex, and he’s one of her oldest and dearest friends. “He’s been such a good horse,” she says from a tour bus hurtling down a highway in New Jersey, her accent thick as the proverbial

Donald J. Trump is once again headed to the White House, which means, among many things, that there’s bound to be a new influx of gaudy official and unofficial Trump merchandise. Wasting no time to capitalize on his win, the president-elect recently endorsed a new collection of Trump Guitars — a product line that has

Don’t let the sparklemuffin’s whimsical name fool you: The brightly colored Australian spider’s life has enough lust, betrayal, and intrigue to launch an HBO true crime series. The male sparklemuffin dances to attract female spiders. If he impresses his desired partner, they mate. But if she deems his moves unsatisfactory, she kills and eats him.

Sade Adu has unveiled a new music video for “Young Lion,” her recently-released single from the compilation album, TRAИƧA. Marking her first new song in six years, “Young Lion” is a heartfelt tribute to Sade’s trans son, Izaak, celebrating who he is with loving lyrics like, “Run down the hills of your dreams/ Arms open wide,

Pearl Jam saved the best for the last show of their 2024 tour in support of Dark Matter by unearthing the Temple of the Dog classic “Hunger Strike” for the first time in concert in more than 10 years — and the first since the 2017 death of the song’s original co-vocalist, Soundgarden‘s Chris Cornell.

Kendrick Lamar’s 2022 album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, took fans on a journey through intense personal growth. With his final project on TDE and Aftermath, he closed an important chapter and could have then stepped away from rapping to focus on his company pgLang. Thanks to a beef with Drake, however, Kendrick has

Kendrick Lamar is the latest superstar artist to drop a new album with little to no warning with GNX, which arrived worldwide at noon ET today (Nov. 22). The 12-track pgLang/Interscope album boasts songwriting and production contributions from Jack Antonoff, Sounwave, SZA, Kamasi Washington, Tyler Mehlenbacher, Craig Balmoris, Mustard, Sean Momberger, Sam Dew, Terrace Martin,

Tate McRae has announced a massive 2025 tour, dubbed the “Miss Possessive Tour.” The trek comes in support of her third studio album, So Close to What, which is set to arrive on February 21st via RCA Records. The 60-date stretch will initially take the dancer and singer to South America for appearances at Lollapalooza

Magazines, like people, need a quiet place. Especially SPIN, cast as it is with so much strutting egos and talk of great sounds. Hence here—amidst the hurlyburly, the din, the ruckus, the primping—we open for you a small garden in which to pause. As readers of our September print issue know, this contemplative space was

Linkin Park has officially made their comeback. The beloved hard rock band has a brand new album, From Zero, released on Friday (November 15th), and they’ve now charted out an extensive world tour for 2025. Dubbed the “From Zero World Tour,” the outing includes the band’s first comprehensive North American run in a decade. Linkin

This first appeared in our September print issue. But not all of you managed to snatch an issue from the stands before hordes of ravenous magazine freaks ran screaming through your local purveyor of fine glossies grabbing every copy they could, so this is for you. Next SPIN print issue is out in December so

Coachella 2025 is set to take place April 11th-13th and April 18th at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, featuring a lineup led by headliners Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone, and Travis Scott. Other notables include Charli XCX, Missy Elliott, Megan Thee Stallion, Kraftwerk, The Original Misfits, LISA and JENNIE of BLACKPINK, FKA

* Post Malone let the cat out of the bag today (Nov. 19) that he will be one of the 2025 Coachella headliners by including the event dates and location amid the itinerary for his The BIG ASS Tour, which will hit 25 stadiums in the U.S. and Canada next year. The trek starts in