I said I might never go back to Coachella. I'd done it already. It felt like someone else's high school reunion. Back in Los Angeles, there was a lot going on. I saw James Blake play for 100 people in a recording studio. It wasn't as good as his festival set. An intimate James Blake show is perhaps a little too intimate. I saw Phoenix, Os Mutantes and Nick Cave play private...read more

On Sunday April 21, Amanda Palmer posted a poem to her Tumblr account related to the Boston Marathon bombings last week, riling up critics and fans alike. "A Poem for Dzhokhar" has experienced a tremendous amount of backlash, with many people labeling its content as sympathy for the devil (or in this case, a terrorist). Though Palmer's poem is an attempt to make sense of a...read more

For Bahamas "it's nice to be nominated" isn't just a press platitude. It actually really was nice to be nominated -- particularly where the prestigious Songwriter of the Year category at the Juno Awards was concerned. "I think that's kind of the big one," Bahamas, known on his ID as Afie Jurvanen, told Spinner during a one-on-one before heading off to the Juno Awards'...read more

Have you ever been in a record store and seen an album cover that made you think, "Who the hell thought that was a good idea?" If you haven't, you haven't dug through enough crates. Because we here at Spinner have a weird sense of humor, we enlisted our Instagramming fans to find more of these bizarre LP covers, and here are 14 great examples of why musicians should really...read more

On Saturday, April 13, Crosby, Stills and Nash performed a rare small-theater show (their only Los Angeles-area concert this year) at Club Nokia. The performance was part of Light Up The Blues, a benefit for Autism Speaks, one of the world's leading autism science and advocacy organizations. The evening featured many other artists as well and raised over $250,000 for the...read more

Picture this: A woman in Mill Valley, California is walking on a thin line after pleading guilty to stealing Huey Lewis' rental car and laptop computer. The Marin Independent Journal reports Katherine Bowyer Gallagher is charged with possession of stolen property, which is a felony. The rental car was later recovered but Gallagher sold the laptop. The incident took place in...read more