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10 Must-See Acts at Alabama’s Hangout Festival

While we won’t be attending the big Hang in ‘Bama, we do have family in that neck of the woods. Jealous of those who’ll get to see Skrillex, Yelawolf, Mavis, the Lips, Big Freedia, Jack White, the Shakes and more from the comfort of a beach blanket. Check out our top ten picks over at SPIN.

SPIN Visits the Hidden Bunker Where Liars Recorded Their New Album, ‘WIXIW’

WIXIW is a shoo-in for our top five albums of 2012, so it was a particular pleasure to visit the strange space where it was created — well, at least in part. There are a few tiers to this story, and a decent amount of subterfuge, but the stuff that keeps us guessing is the stuff that keeps us coming back. Furthermore, WIXIW happens to be the most accessible work in their catalog to date, so find out what osmosis and singing underwater has to do with it. Read at SPIN.

SPIN Hits the Studio with Linkin Park, Talks Hybrid Theories, Laughs About the Past

So we did this. In the same week that we hung out with Liars in their makeshift music bunker, we hightailed it to NRG in NoHo where we were greeted by walls lined with platinum packs from such luminaries as Hoobustank and Papa Roach, and–as it turned out–a couple of the nicest, most sincere dudes in the music biz. The men of Linkin Park are good men indeed. They follow golf and basketball, and geek over old stories about performing with Stone Temple Pilots or banging on Rick Rubin’s SP1200, and are excited to play you their new songs. Head on over to SPIN to find out what they’ve been up to. And here’s this: