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November 2008

MGMT: Head Games

In two strange years, MGMT have gone from campus lark to psych-pop superstars and ragtag fashion icons. Now these merry pranksters have to figure out how to keep the career they didn't even know they wanted, without losing their minds.

The SPIN Interview: Lou Reed

By David Marchese

With the Velvet Underground, he was the epitome of downtown cool. As a solo artists, he played the part of glam god, noise provocateur, and critics' bete noire. Still, Lou Reed insists, "There's nothing complicated about me." Kind sir, we beg to differ.

Faking the Band

By David Peisner

Want to buy "All Summer Long" from iTunes? Even if you did, it wouldn't be Kid Rock's hit version -- just a generic soundalike (sorry, tribute). SPIN blows the cover off one of pop's dirty little secrets.

Black Rock: An Oral History

By David Browne

In the 1980s, a brotherhood of bands led by Fishbone and Living Colour refused to let their race dictate the style of music they played. Here's how they splashed onto the scene, how they struggled to stay afloat, and what they're doing now.

Lyrical Assassin

By Michael Azerrad

For a music critic, being immortalized in song could be the highest compliment...unless the song is a death threat.

Album Reviews

Adam Lambert

For Your Entertainment

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A debut even Simon Cowell could love.
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50 Cent - Before I Self Destruct

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It's not the G-Unit leader's birthday anymore.
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Norah Jones - The Fall

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Don't know why she didn't do this before.
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Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures

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Three's company for Grohl, Homme, and Jones.
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Kid Sister - Ultraviolet

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House-music shout-outs overshadow rhyme skills.
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Wale - Attention: Deficit

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Post mix-tape acclaim, D.C. MC finally makes his case.
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Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Xenophanes

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Mars Volta mad scientist edits his experiments.
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Dashboard Confessional - Alter the Ending

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King of emo-folk pain embraces two-state solution.
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Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young

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New York's grooviest rocker spiffs up his sound.
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Weezer - Raditude

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Rock's most maddeningly hummable practical joke continues.
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Shakira - She Wolf

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Latin pop mami down for whatever, wherever.
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Robbie Williams - Reality Killed the Video Star

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The ego again requests clearance to land.
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Annie - Don't Stop

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Disco diva next door calls the cads on the carpet.
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Slayer - World Painted Blood

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The godfathers of thrash bleed for you again.
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