R.I.P.: Barry Hannah, Southern Writer Extraordinaire
SPIN's Charles Aaron on the author who once interviewed Johnny Cash for the magazine.
By Charles Aaron 03.03.10 10:14 AM
With his short stories and novels, Mississippi's Barry Hannah -- who passed away Monday of a heart attack at age 67 -- captured the disorienting jerks and reverberating thuds and bewildering empties of the "contemporary" South better than just about any author of the past 40 years.
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Gang Starr's Guru Recovering from Heart Attack
Plus: SPIN's Charles Aaron on the genre-busting rapper's legacy, looking back at a classic 1993 SPIN column.
By Charles Aaron 03.02.10 8:41 AM
Keith "Guru" Elam, the MC for Brooklyn-based, jazz-tinged outfit Gang Starr, who suffered a heart attack over the weekend, is recovering after treatment in a New York City hospital.
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Top 10 Who Super Bowl Moments
Charles Aaron on Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, and Ringo's son, playing the biggest stage in the world.
By Charles Aaron 02.08.10 11:24 AM
British classic-rock coots the Who played a much-discussed halftime set at the 44th Super Bowl Sunday night, and we've got the Top 10 highlights:
10. Zak Starkey's bull's-eye RAF cymbals! You go, Zildjian!
9. Stage set provoked nostalgia for late-'70s computer memory game Simon among key fortysomething CBS demographic.
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Thirty Seconds to Mars, 'This Is War' (RCA)
Waging battle against fan fatigue, Jared Leto calls upon the ghosts of rock's past and present.
By Charles Aaron 11.30.09 6:39 PM
There's a stunning scene from the storied teen-TV tour de force My So-Called Life in which earnest waif-heroine Angela Chase (Claire Danes), dyslexic rocker-rebel Jordan Catalano (Jared Leto), plus their attendant cliques, lock into a protracted, wordless group stare-down. As the edits flick from one expectant face to the next and the music yearningly
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Reigning Sound, 'Love and Curses' (In the Red)
A rocker's manual of maturity, sideburns intact.
By Charles Aaron 10.21.09 1:19 PM
Garage-punk mensch Greg Cartwright has been refining the Reigning Sound's frayed, soulful bleat since the band's 2001 debut (after his rowdier crew, the Oblivians, screeched their last). And here he's at his most tenderly heartworn yet.
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5 Reasons Against a Ramones Biopic
SPIN's Charles Aaron responds to news that a feature film about the influential New York punks is in the works.
By Charles Aaron 10.01.09 5:32 PM
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