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1. Snapped: The Long Feng Art Car – A Cultural Phenomenon (A Photo Essay)

   With the likes of Vintage Culture, Damian Lazarus, Gordo, Colyn, Lee Foss, Arodes b2b AMÉMÉ, Kaz James and more gracing its decks at Burning Man last month, the AAPI-inspired art car did more than turn heads. It served as a cultural bridge between East and West. Concepted from the forms of the dragon, the phoenix, […]

2. Snapped: Passion Pit Debuts at Cascade Equinox with Rare DJ Set (A Photo Essay)

   Bringing an inspired DJ set to the Pacific Northwest’s Deschutes County Fairgrounds, indie-electronic favorites Passion Pit joined Disclosure, Sylvan Esso, TroyBoi, Big Gigantic, Chromeo (DJ Set) and others for the storied Cascade Equinox festival. Passion Pit front man Michael Angelakos also joined up with hyperpop/dubstep artist Tracey Brakes for an epic b2b during the set. […]

3. Sean “Diddy” Combs Sentenced To 50 Months In Prison

   Bad Boy Records mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to 50 months in jail today (Oct. 3) on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution — the only two charges still standing from his sex trafficking and racketeering trial this year. Combs, who previously pled not guilty to all charges, faced a maximum of […]

4. Trent Reznor Cancels Composer-Focused Future Ruins Fest

   Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' first Future Ruins festival, which was to take place Nov. 8 at...

5. 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Milo Aukerman of the Descendents

   Name  Milo Aukerman Best known for  Going to college, for some reason. Current city  Newark, Delaware. Really want to be in  Colorado, where I can go on hikes and practice with the Descendents (and record at the Blasting Room!). Excited to  Go on tour to Canada in a few weeks. I’ve always secretly wished I was Canadian, and now more […]

6. Deep Cut Friday: ‘Cash Car Star’ by the Smashing Pumpkins

   Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The last few years of the Smashing Pumpkins’ ’90s run were a little chaotic. Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was fired and then rehired, and bassist D’arcy Wretzky permanently left the band. Frontman Billy […]

7. Finneas Rocks At ‘Austin City Limits’ Season Premiere

   Finneas puts the spotlight on his solo catalog during the 51st season premiere of the...

8. Praise the Lord!

   When a 10-year-old Freddie Ross Jr. stepped into the Pressing Onward Baptist Church — a little brick building on Danneel Street in New Orleans — he was mesmerized by the spirit he felt and the celebration he witnessed among its congregants. He knew it was a safe place.  Young Freddie, known best now as Big Freedia, […]

9. Foo Fighters Drop Live EP For Bandcamp Friday

   Foo Fighters are rewarding fans who didn't get a chance to see them at four surprise club shows in recent weeks with a live EP...

10. Dylan, ‘Wicked’ Among 170 RSD Black Friday Titles

    More than 170 exclusive titles will be available in independent record stores on Nov. 28 as part of RSD Black Friday.