9 Rock + Metal Bands With 7 or More Members

Here are nine rock and metal bands that either have or were known for having a lineup that consisted of seven or more members at a time. Continue reading…

Tom Morello Reacts to Democrats’ Domination of Midterm Election

Tom Morello has thoughts after the midterm elections saw the flipping of power in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Continue reading…

14 New Rock + Metal Tours Announced This Past Week

Get new touring announcements from Rush, Breaking Benjamin, Dexter and the Moonrocks, Alexisonfire and Poison the Well among others. Continue reading…

Alan Pierson Takes Steve Reich’s ’18 Musicians’ On A Journey Through Time

For half a century, Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians has been a kind of perpetual motion machine: an intricately interlocking, endlessly renewable composition whose patterns shimmer and shift even as they circle back to where they began. For its 50th anniversary — and Reich’s 90th birthday — conductor/director Alan Pierson took that cyclical logic

Following the Family Ties

The roots of the new Kings of Leon album can be traced to a gnarly X-ray of singer Caleb Followill’s injured foot. The band has seen the evidence: an almost incomprehensible injury that grounded its frontman and sent him into a period of deep contemplation. Kings of Leon had already begun writing what would ultimately

Deep Cut Friday: “I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts” by X

Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. X’s fourth album More Fun in the New World featured some of the band’s most overtly political songs, and the Los Angeles punk quartet placed themselves explicitly in the lineage of Woody