Neil Finn on the Beautiful Melancholy of 1986’s 'Unstoppable' Hit 'Don’t Dream It’s Over' When Meg Smith was 15-years-old, she and her mom took a batch of brownies and a freshly-made demo to every major pop radio station in California. The LA-born Smith had only started making music three years earlier, but after taking up ukulele in middle...

Cage the Elephant Share Zoom-Compiled Video for 'Black Madonna' Matt Shultz of Cage the Elephant is ready to share the trauma he’s seen. On Neon Pill, the band’s first album in five years, the singer cryptically describes the disorienting effects of an unnamed drug on the jaunty, swirling title song:  “Like a loaded gun, my love/I lost...

Eminem Reappears With New Single, 'Houdini' Name  Eliza Hardy Jones Best known for  Playing in The War on Drugs, making quilts, and being the official chanteuse of The Rights to Ricky Sanchez podcast. More from Spin: Neil Finn on the Beautiful Melancholy of 1986’s ‘Unstoppable’ Hit ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ Pearl...

The Record Store: Owners Recall Rare Pressings We Never Knew Existed “Our albums have always had elements of melancholy,” says Neil Finn, lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for Crowded House. “And some of the best songs I’ve written have been on the melancholy side.” Those strains of melancholia came to the fore on “Don’t Dream...

Eminem Reappears With New Single, 'Houdini' Pearl Jam wound down the first North American leg of its Dark Matter tour last night (May 30) at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena, a two-night stand marking the band’s first hometown shows since 2018. Before the first song of the encore, frontman Eddie Vedder acknowledged the deeply felt...

The Record Store: Owners Recall Rare Pressings We Never Knew Existed Eminem has reappeared on the scene with “Houdini,” his first new studio album track since 2020 and the first taste of music from his upcoming Shady/Aftermath/Interscope LP, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace). Keeping with the title’s theme, in the song’s video, Eminem...