Sunny Day Real Estate Reread Their Diary Mdou Moctar – Funeral For Justice Matador Records Mdou Moctar’s 2021 album, Afrique Victime, marked a crucial breakthrough for the acclaimed Nigerien guitarist. His trademark fusion of Tuareg music and modern psych-rock resonated with the English-speaking world, demonstrating a gradual yet...

Jess Cornelius on Why It's Important That Artists Use Free Speech Singer-songwriter Jess Cornelius has been passionately outspoken about social issues throughout her career. Sitting with SPIN backstage at SXSW, Cornelius discusses the challenges of navigating artistic expression as a musician. She also implores artists to be true to themselves...

SPIN Daybreaker: Peach Fuzz Music nostalgia is a beautifully complicated feeling. And it’s one that Rachel Chinouriri is skilled at harnessing in her music. The London-born Zimbabwean musician’s debut album, What A Devastating Turn of Events, is charged with that coming-of-age feeling where daily life’s only remedy is blasting...

David J on the Creative Process and the Inner Flame of Inspiration “I am calling out to you… from the n’other place,” howled Jessica Pratt back on 2012’s “Bushel Hyde.” Here her sage, smoky vocals seemed to be longing for something that exists beyond time zones and—amid an elemental, cascading guitar line that felt more like it was being...

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Sunny Day Real Estate Prepare To Celebrate ‘Diary’ Jeremy Enigk was barely 19 years old when he and his bandmates in Sunny Day Real Estate recorded their hugely influential debut album, Diary, at Chicago’s Idful Studios. A year later, the band would split for the first of several times, but despite lingering interpersonal drama, Diary...