SPIN » Colin Joyce

Given the goodwill that they’ve generated since disbanding—the well-regarded reissues , documentaries , and legions of younger bands hailing them as influences—it’s easy to forget how bad...

https://www.spin.com/2017/05/slowdive-self-titled-review/

8SPIN Rating: 8 of 10Release Date: August 12, 2016Label: Joy VoidAustralian songwriter and producer Katie Dey’s 2015 debut, asdfasdf, felt born from the internet. It wasn’t that social med...

https://www.spin.com/2016/08/review-katie-dey-flood-network/

For a genre whose fans are so often labeled (sometimes rightly) as rigid constructionists, metal’s last few years have been marked by an unprecedented burst of boundary-pushing experimentation....

https://www.spin.com/2016/07/spin-metal-report-vektor-inter-arma-gorguts-zeal-and-ardor-horseback-melvins-blut-aus-nord-aevangelist/

In the mess of chain coffee shops and clothing boutiques that crowd lower Manhattan, it can be hard to find a place to just sit and talk. But standing outside of long-running Lower East Side venu...

https://www.spin.com/2016/07/cheena-spend-the-night-with-new-album-interview/

8SPIN Rating: 8 of 10Release Date: July 01, 2016Label: DominoSometimes it feels like Dev Hynes is everywhere. Excepting even the obvious — the magazine covers for his work as Blood Orange , the...

https://www.spin.com/2016/06/review-blood-orange-freetown-sound/

6SPIN Rating: 6 of 10Release Date: June 17, 2016Label: Warner Bros.Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes of a recently kicked bowl of California’s finest medicinal-grade greenery, the Red Hot Ch...

https://www.spin.com/2016/06/review-red-hot-chili-peppers-the-getaway/

8SPIN Rating: 8 of 10Release Date: June 03, 2016Label: MergeThe weight of the past bears heavy on William Tyler . During a recent performance in the early Gothic Hall at New York City’s Cloiste...

https://www.spin.com/2016/05/review-william-tyler-modern-country/

Felix Walworth performs herculean feats of limb-flailing and time management as a drummer in four Brooklyn-based indie-pop bands. They (Walworth uses gender-neutral pronouns) are an essential pa...

https://www.spin.com/2016/04/told-slant-felix-walworth-going-by-new-album-interview-all-eyes-on/

8SPIN Rating: 8 of 10Release Date: March 03, 2016Label: Static Shock / Wilsuns RCAll of Sheer Mag 's bite-sized, fire-starting collections of road-dog rock over the last few years have been mixed...

https://www.spin.com/2016/03/review-sheer-mag-iii/

8SPIN Rating: 8 of 10Release Date: February 26, 2016Label: 20 Buck Spin / SvartIf the laws of the physical universe as we currently understand them (and well, Alien’s oft-quoted tagline) are ri...

https://www.spin.com/2016/03/review-oranssi-pazuzu-varahtelija/