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1 week ago | spin.com | Steve Appleford

There is a long history of artists coming back from oblivion after long periods of silence: Bowie, Miles Davis, My Bloody Valentine, and ABBA, among them. That doesn’t mean it’s easy. And when Us3 mastermind Geoff Wilkinson suffered a devastating series of heart attacks in early 2014, he thought his life making music was over. The physical and mental impact was overwhelming, so he sold everything.

1 week ago | spin.com | Charles Moss

Not much information about the film is available as of this writing, save for a trailer that premiered July 18 and a release date of October 24, 2025.

1 week ago | spin.com | Matt Thompson

The gold standard of dads has to be Walt Johnsen, the man after whom Walt’s Bar, a pinball, beer, and hotdog joint in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, is named. His son Jeff, who founded and owns the bar with brother Brad, tells it: “He’s one of those fix-anything guys, so he’d always be bringing home weird stuff like mall machines and go-karts, and he was also a classic car restoration dude.

1 week ago | spin.com | Kyle Eustice

Russell Simmons says he was “shocked” to learn T La Rock and Jazzy Jay’s 1984 single “It’s Yours” was produced by Rick Rubin, a white Jewish kid attending college at New York University and making music from his Weinstein Hall dorm room.  Simmons, who had already established Rush Management by the early ’80s, was well known in the blossoming hip-hop scene thanks to his work with acts like Whodini, Kurtis Blow and Run-DMC. He didn’t expect Rubin to be so…white.

1 week ago | spin.com | Jeff Vrabel

How can this much be left? Of the 83 songs on Bruce Springsteen’s Tracks II, an overwhelming box of seven unreleased albums (the largest drop of completed records ever?), 74 have never been officially heard. That means they didn’t make it into the first four-disc Tracks (from 27 years ago), or the generously stuffed boxes for Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, or The River.