Music

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Bootleg City

Bootleg City: Sinéad O'Connor in 1990

We do not want what we have not got, unless we have not got this concert recording

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 6/13/25

I am not afraid of New Music, for I am learning how to sail my Friday

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Earmageddon

Earmageddon: Lou Reed, "Metal Machine Music"

Dextrorotory components synthesis of sympathomimetic musics

Blindspotting

Blindspotting: Gang of Four, "Entertainment!"

At home, he's a tourist

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 5/30/25

Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into New Music Friday

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Old Music Friday

Old Music Friday: 5/23/25

Looking back at the singles that debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 this week in 1985

Major Letdowns

Major Letdowns: Manfred Mann's Earth Band, "Masque"

Mann overboard

Blindspotting

Blindspotting: Flaming Lips, "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords

Bootleg City

Bootleg City: Bruce Springsteen in 2005-'06

Shaking off the devils and the dust

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New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 5/16/25

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the New Music that has turned my Friday

The One After the One-Hit Wonder

The One After the One-Hit Wonder, Part 6

Top 40 success can be so fleeting. Just ask these artists

Old Music Friday

Old Music Friday: 5/9/85

Looking back at the singles that debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 this week in 1985

Islands in the Stream

Islands in the Stream: 5/7/25

Giving some extra love to artists who aren't getting enough of it

Blindspotting

Blindspotting: Tool, "Lateralus"

Let's get dark and play with time signatures!

Music

Revisiting SPIN's 1994 New Music Preview

Kind of a disappointing issue, honestly

Blindspotting

Blindspotting: Cypress Hill, "Black Sunday"

Time to break me off some

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 4/4/25

I am not afraid of New Music, for I am learning how to sail my Friday

You Again?

You Again?: The Stylistics, "Falling in Love with My Girl"

By golly, wow

Music

Islands in the Stream: 4/1/25

Giving a little extra love to some artists who could use more of it

Music

Blindspotting: Grateful Dead, "American Beauty"

What a long, strange trip it's been

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Music

Old Music Friday: 3/21/85

Counting down the singles that debuted on the Hot 100 this week in 1985

Music

Revisiting SPIN's 1993 New Music Preview

From the Buzz Bin to the cutout bin

Music

Blindspotting: Slayer, "Reign in Blood"

Let's thrash, bitches

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Music

Old Music Friday: 3/14/85

Counting down the singles that debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 this week in 1985

Music

The One After the One-Hit Wonder, Part 5

Top 40 success can be so fleeting. Just ask these artists