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(photo: Maclay Heriot) With 28 genre-jumping studio albums to draw from, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard never play the same show twice. But the element of surprise was wielded even more dramatically last night (Aug. 21) at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium, when the Australian sextet welcomed E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg for a guest appearance on the song “Hot Water.”Weinberg, 75, is the father of fellow drummer Jay Weinberg, himself a longtime Gizzard friend

Disappointed fans seen at the Bonnaroo Arch after the 2025 edition was canceled due to rain (photo: Douglas Mason / WireImage). The long-running Manchester, Tn.-based festival Bonnaroo will not be held in 2027, as organizers continue recovery efforts following consecutive years of storm-plagued cancellations. “As you know, we spent a great deal of effort and money working to improve the campgrounds and Centeroo in the months leading into the 2026 festival,” they wrote in

(photo: Trevor Roberts) Elton John, Four Tet, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Alex G and Dying Fetus are among the wildly eclectic guests joining Turnstile for NEVER ENOUGH: VERSIONS, a reimagined take on the Baltimore hardcore band’s Grammy-winning 2025 album, due Aug. 28 from Roadrunner. The guest list alone suggests that Turnstile has once again decided that genre boundaries are somebody else’s problem. Alongside the above, VERSIONS features contributions from Slayyyter, Porche

(photo: Alexa King Stone) Kacey Musgraves is leaning all the way into the innuendo of her recent music with a new limited-edition personal lubricant. The singer/songwriter has teamed with women’s wellness brand Medicine Mama on Drought Drops, a water-based lube and vaginal moisturizer that promises to “keep the dry spells away and the good times coming.”The product references Musgraves’ single “Dry Spell,” which turned a period of romantic drought int

(photo: Joshua Kissi) Following a summer of pop-up performances and musical teases, Leon Bridges is getting closer to his next chapter. With his Happiness Anytime looming Sept. 25 via Columbia Records, the Texas-reared singer has unveiled the second of three four-song EPs that will ultimately comprise the album. Produced by Jungle’s J Lloyd-Watson and Lydia Kitto, Happiness Anytime will include the buoyant “Talk It Over,” the album’s title track, “All Day All Night” featuring

Eddie Vedder with musicians from Guitars Over Guns (photo: Columbia College Chicago) Eddie Vedder’s “Better Believe” now has a visual record of the collaboration that brought the song to life, with a new behind-the-scenes video documenting the Pearl Jam frontman’s work with the Obama Foundation and Chicago youth arts nonprofit Guitars Over Guns, which uses music, mentorship and the arts to create opportunities for young people. As previously reported, the song came together for the

Fan Week The US Open isn’t just one of the world’s great sporting events anymore.  It’s becoming one of America’s great cultural festivals.More from Spin: Max Weinberg Guests With King Gizzard In New York Bonnaroo Will Take Hiatus In 2027 Turnstile’s ‘Never Enough’ Gets Unexpected Remix Treatment Over three weeks, more than one million fans descend on the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows for world-class tenni

Sawyer Hill. (Credit: Natalie Zeta) “First of all, the coffin was for a very small person,” Sawyer Hill begins, explaining how he was “buried” alive in a constrictive pine box. “Then I was, ‘Wait, soil has fertilizer in it, fertilizer is poop, shoveled near my face, poop in my eyes!?’ My manager said, ‘Well, what if we put a plastic bag over your face?’ The singer’s immediate reaction? ‘Suffocation!? Yeah, that’s not good either.’ Hill’s ultimate take: It was gross, but it looked

John Flansburgh and John Linnell of They Might Be Giants in June 1998 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (Credit: Catherine McGann/Getty Images) Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series.Like the TV series it was based on, 1995’s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie was silly, low budget, and popular enough with kids to turn a profit. Some of the bigger names on the film’s soundtrack album, li

Donnie Vie. (Credit: Joe Schaeffer) Name  Donnie Vie.  Best known for  What am I best known as? Well, that depends on who you ask. But officially, I was the principal songwriter and original lead singer for the band Enuff Z’Nuff, 1985-2000, and then again from 2007-2013. Anything else isn’t my fault. Actually, to a handful of people I’m known as the guy who knows, and can do anything. Not my words.  Current city  I&rsqu

Snapped: RESISTANCE Ibiza 2026 Launch Has Begun (A Photo Essay) Ultra Worldwide’s award-winning house and techno movement, RESISTANCE Ibiza, returns for Season 5 of its legendary residency. With club Amnesia as its home, RESISTANCE also helps celebrate the venue’s 50th anniversary. The season opened last month with performances from Adam Beyer, Boris Brejcha, HI-LO, Eli Brown, Massano, Space 92 x Popof (Present Turbulences), Linska and Kaufmann. If you missed opening nig

Erykah Badu at the 2026 Roots Picnic in Philadelphia (photo: Taylor Hill / Getty Images for Live Nation Urban). After more than a decade between solo projects, Erykah Badu is finally ready to return with something entirely new — and she’s bringing the Alchemist along for the ride.The pair announced that their long-teased collaborative album will arrive digitally Aug. 28 via Control FREAQ Records/Young Recordings. The co-produced set, which apparently has no title, was record

Alex G (photo: Chris Maggio). Alex G’s ongoing creative partnership with filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun begins another chapter this month with the soundtrack to Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the director’s new genre-bending horror film following We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow. Waxwork Records will release the film soundtrack digitally and physically on Aug. 21, featuring selections from Alex G’s evocative score alongside music from R.E.M., Sally Shapiro

(photo: Kitty Williams) On the eve of his 80th birthday, legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb is opening the piano bench — and finding a remarkable cache of songs that have been waiting decades for their moment. The Songwriters Hall of Famer and multi-Grammy winner, who has penned everything from “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and “Wichita Lineman” to “MacArthur Park” and “Highwayman.” will release Yours for the Taking: The Found Songs of Jimmy Webb Oct. 23 via Sun Records. It&#82

(photo: Migella Accorsi) Sawyer Hill is the guest on the latest installment of the SPIN Presents Lipps Service podcast, speaking with host Scott Lipps about his unconventional upbringing in Arkansas, growing up in a deeply religious Pentecostal environment, discovering rock music and the unlikely path that led him to becoming one of rock’s rising young artists Hill also discusses his new album, Everybody’s Home, Nobody’s Happy, considering a future working in a morgue a

The voice of God sounds "like the wind when it blows," says Claire Rosinkranz, shown here performing at Lollapalooza in Chicago, July 31, 2026.(Photo by Erika Goldring/WireImage via Getty Images) When the hills were filled with fire Claire Rosinkranz had an idea. “Dad,” she said, “we should go to Sweden tomorrow—it’s kind of a mess here.” Here being Los Angeles, stretches of which then resembled the coming of Ragnarök, when a battle bet

Sublime’s Reef Madness Cruise Sets Sail This November Alt rock icons Sublime will hit the high seas this November, subbing out their tour buses for a celebratory journey on the Norwegian Jewel. The Long Beach legends’ Reef Madness Cruise sets sail from Miami to Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas on November 15-19 and for fans still thinking about attending, the time is now to book your four-night voyage.Equal parts music festival, tropical vacation, and fan convention, the November excurs

Photo Courtesy of Slightly Stoopid Founding members  Miles Doughty and Kyle McDonald, who are both the band’s principal songwriters and share vocal, guitar, and bass duties, were just a couple of teenagers in San Diego’s picturesque coastal neighborhood in Ocean Beach, CA, when they started a punk band called Slightly Stoopid in the mid-‘90s. In the three decades since those humble beginnings, Slightly Stoopid has grown into a widely respected touring institution and an acco

Songs This Summer That Matter Summer is basically over.This season has been an epic whirlwind. People are outside living it up.More from Spin: Gaga, Bunny, Taylor Swift Score Emmy Nominations Springsteen, Santana, Joel Honor Clive Davis Legendary Music Exec Clive Davis Dies At 94 And yet, there is no clear Song of the Summer.New music has a big issue breaking through. There is actually some great music coming out, but it’s harder than ever to find

Ivan Moody. (Credit: Shawn Brandon) Name  Ivan MoodyMore from Spin: Long-Awaited Joint Badu/Alchemist Album Due Aug. 28 Alex G Enlivens ‘Teenage Sex’ Score, Soundtrack Jimmy Webb Opens The Piano Bench For New LP Best known for  Lead Singer of Five Finger Death PunchCurrent Location  The woods of New Hampshire in search of the “Woods Devil.”Really want to be in  Any new Rob Zombie-films. The guy is a fu