I met Nile Rodgers as we were putting the first issue of SPIN together. We were introduced by our mutual (and still) friend Robert Drake, the great sound engine ...

I did feel that the day was going to come eventually, but it’s not a song I ever wanted to sing,” Julian Lennon told me in ...

A funny thing happens about two-thirds of the way through “Mistral,” the gospel-tinged fourth track on Fuubutsushi’s new ...

On Aug. 22, Deftones will enhance the celebration with the release of private music, their first album in five years. The ...

Ozzy Osbourne has set an Oct. 7 release for his second memoir, Last Rites, from Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group.

It may be wishful thinking, but if these tuff times really are just ephemeral, we’ll all owe Kokoroko a heck of a debt of ...

Nick Hexum thought he was going to die. During 311’s self-financed tour to support their first major label album, 1993’s ...

Curtis Jackson III was born in Queens, New York, on July 6, 1975. In the late ’90s, he began his rap career as 50 Cent, and ...

Paul McCartney is showing no signs of slowing down. The 83-year-old Beatle will embark on a fall North American leg of his ...

In a stunning development, drummer Matt Cameron, who joined Pearl Jam in 1998 shortly after Soundgarden split up, is stepping ...

It’s fun to live vicariously through musicians. They go to extremes so we don’t have to—but we love watching them do it. In ...

It’s been two weeks since Ken Casey flew across the North Atlantic Ocean, traveling over 4,000 miles to Warsaw, Poland, where ...