Why Libricide’s Kismet Feels Like the Kind of Find People Gatekeep

Some albums don’t ask for attention so much as take it. Kismet, the new music release from Libricide, has that effect. While some music sounds thrown together for the algorithm, it doesn’t flatten itself into the kind of vague, interchangeable rock that disappears the second the chorus ends. It sounds alive, slightly unruly, and fully

Michael Stipe’s Solo Debut Will Be Out This Year

R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night (April 23) to confirm that his long-in-the-works solo debut will be released …

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Wraps Synth LP

The prolific Australian group revealed on social media today (April 24) that its next album, made entirely on its bespoke modular synthesizer setup…

Marilyn Manson Debuts New Backing Band at 2026 Tour Kickoff

Marilyn Manson’s current touring lineup features one returning member and a brand new addition for 2026. Continue reading…

Deep Cut Friday: ‘You Can’t Talk to the Dude’ by Jonathan Richman

Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. In the seven years between starting college and moving in with the woman I’m now married to, I had eight different roommates. Some of those roommates were good friends, strangers who I

The Milk Carton Kids Are Alright

Joey Ryan waited 15 years for this moment. The day when someone wouldn’t automatically associate his folk group the Milk Carton Kids with all those sad images of missing youth splatted across grocery stores in the 1980s. “That is so fucking cool to hear,” he says after learning that I thought the band name was