A modern classic of its genre. Always worth coming back to.

Streaming is passé when the best shit's back in wax. SPIN the black circle. spin.com/2024/11/the-vi…

"Long live mystery" spin.com/2024/11/haiku-…

After a lifetime obsessing over the true meaning of Player's 1978 soft rock hit, a university professor rings the singer to ask what it was really about. spin.com/2024/11/the-pr…

When bands get back in the ring, some take it too literally (yes, looking at you Jane's Addiction)... while others shine spin.com/2024/11/2024-d…

Bill Maher (Bill Maher) says it like it is, regardless of who he upsets. Which is excellent. spin.com/2024/12/bill-m…

Hey …. it’s me in the SPIN magazine contributors page 🥁 I collaborated with Matt Thompson on a gritty story about Oregon’s drug apocalypse. It’s full of my photos and out now Being in a music magazine is a dream come true for me

A case for acquired taste spin.com/2024/12/the-5-…

How Eric Avery and Dave Navarro made music after Jane's Addiction broke up spin.com/2024/12/decons…

How a wild Aussie boy made bush raves huge but tore himself apart and left a hell of a wake. The tragic drama of Earthcore's Spiro Boursinos spin.com/2025/01/rave-d…

From charity singles gone wrong to timeless classics, our editors dissect the anthems, oddities, and outright disasters that defined the year in music spin.com/2025/01/the-be…

Life and death in narcotopia. spin.com/2025/02/oregon…

Michael Wood is one of America’s most notorious, toughest and longest incarcerated prisoners. Here he tells us what life in prison is really like, and it ain’t like the movies spin.com/2025/02/michae…

Radio Free NATO/OTAN youtu.be/LMKfIXdxh-U?si…

Teenage Engineering's pocket synthesizer reverses Pandora's Box — it recontains our once wayward spirits spin.com/2025/03/pocket…

Unbelievable chaos on the streets of Portland. A man’s foot about to fall off and refusing help from paramedics. Multiple people getting high around him including one who will overdose twenty minutes and another who will be found dead a week later. A teenage runaway looking for

People in Portland "exercising bodily autonomy," as the pro-narco NGOs call it.

Cancel culture in the music industry: cruel and profoundly unfair

Turn your volume on. This is what it’s like to walk through a Portland pedestrian underpass.

It’s the 45th anniversary of the drum machine that ate the world spin.com/2025/07/the-80…