SPIN.com's Best of the Week, October 6-13
Read up on Green Day's next album and Metallica's tour, get spankin' new tunes from Minus the Bear and Manchester Orchestra, and check out the week's other top stories!
By Spin Staff 10.11.08 12:02 PM
As you get ready to celebrate Columbus Day, check out our scoop on Green Day's next full-length and Metallica's upcoming tour, and listen to exclusive new tunes from Manchester Orchestra, Minus the Bear, and others. Plus: Get more of the best from the past week:
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My Morning Jacket's Jim James Hospitalized
The Southern crooner suffers injuries -- and upcoming shows are cancelled. Click here for details.
By William Goodman 10.08.08 3:23 PM
Rocking onstage is a perilous task. Last night in Iowa City yet another musician fell victim to its dangers: My Morning Jacket's Jim James was hurt during a show and rushed to the hospital.
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End the Trend: The Lumberjack Look!
Is the Brawny paper towel mascot to blame for music's most tired fashion trend? SPIN's Ellen Carpenter investigates.
By Ellen Carpenter 10.08.08 7:32 AM
My friend Emily and I went to see Fleet Foxes play at New York’s Webster Hall on Sunday night. After procuring two Bud Lights (because we’re classy), I came up with a fun drinking game: Every time we saw a guy with a bushy beard, we’d take a gulp; for a bearded guy in buffalo-check flannel, two gulps.
I’m still nursing a hangover.
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Radiohead, Buzzcocks, My Morning Jacket Featured on 'Choke' Soundtrack
The movie adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel will also feature tunes from Death Cab for Cutie, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Ben Kweller, and many more.
By Joe Coscarelli 08.14.08 5:12 PM
Contrary to internet murmurs earlier this week, Radiohead won't be providing the entire score to the movie adaptation of Choke, a novel by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk.
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Bonnaroo Reviewed: My Morning Jacket
Fans endure the elements as the Louisville, KY-based rockers summon a Tennessee downpour and surpass all expectations with an eclectic four-hour set.
By William Goodman 06.15.08 1:11 PM
My Morning Jacket have been lauded as America's premier live act, and last night into this early morning, as the rain fell and the mud thickened on the Bonnaroo grounds, Jim James and co. proved it with a mind-blowing, near four-hour set on the Which Stage.
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