Liam Gowing

In January 2020, as the normally joyous Chinese Lunar New Year arrived, things looked bleak in Shanghai. COVI…

This edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf, excerpts Liam Gowing's op-ed on the dracon…

In January 2020, as the normally joyous Chinese Lunar New Year arrived, things looked bleak in Shanghai. COVI…

In the December 2004 issue of SPIN, we published Los Angeles journalist/musician Liam Gowing’s detailed, empa…

The feeling of dread was overwhelming as I rendezvoused with my band and noted the absence of our foremost me…

Hailed as one of the greatest albums of all time upon its 1966 release and battling it out with The Beatles' …

What do you get when you combine a funk-folk journeyman and an indie rock singer-songwriter with the son of a…

“Even in this tiny little room,” said Perry Farrell to the 150 or so folks sharing the confines of Hollywood …

Even in the desert, the Dead Weather hit the stage dressed all in black. And during their Saturday night head…

Legendary Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr took time out from his gig playing in Modest Mouse to join the Cribs a…

The Flaming Lips have always been about big ideas: In 1997, it was Zaireeka, an experimental release comprisi…

It was right after a rousing version of “The Sound of Settling” from 2003’s Transatlanticism, 12 songs into D…

“So this is the first show of our tour,” Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland told the sold-out crowd at …

Music fans are wise to be leery when they see phrases like “all-original lineup” and “long-anticipated reunio…

“Hello!” yelled Mark Hoppus from a stage at Los Angeles’ Paramount Pictures lot Thursday night. “We are Blink…

"You're going sky diving?" an incredulous colleague asked me. "I did it once in Florida and it went OK. But t…

SPOT an utterly valueless item -- a tiny toy soldier, a button, a marble -- lying at the base of a telephone …

CREDIT Johnny Depp and his pirate pals. Or thank Viggo Mortensen and the inhabitants of Middle-earth, or all …

Action Man: Our intrepid reporter's adventures mountain biking Sullivan Canyon go awry when he flies over his…

In MANY ways, the Good Nite is like a lot of trendy new cocktail lounges. A romantically lit spot parked on a…

ON FIRST APPROACH, Surf City USA seems an awful lot like Anytown, USA. Drive down Huntington Beach's main tho…

SOAP. On a rope, in a bar, in a jar, it's one of those everyday inventions we take for granted. And it is an …

An island paradise turned into a Roaring '20s hot spot by chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley Jr., Santa Cata…

Unlike many celebrity spawn, 24-year-old Liam Finn is actually quite comfortable discussing his famous father…