The 1975
The 1975’s Matt Healy Opens Up About Heroin Addiction in New Interview
Matt Healy of the 1975 revealed his struggles with heroin addiction during an interview today (Oct. 12) with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, admitting that he required a stint in rehab for the problem. [embedded content][embedded content] Healy said his bandmates sat him down for an intervention of sorts during work on The 1975’s 2018 album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships. The following morning, remembering that he had yelled unreasonable responses back at them, he thought, “Oh my God, not only was that the wrong thing to say, that was so cringe. Because I know that they will get over that, but that’s going to be an anecdote that they’ll take the piss out of me for years for—that’s the first thing I need to think about.” His heroin addiction was “the first time where there had been anyt...
The 1975, Happily Washed
Being Funny in a Foreign Language is the sound of the 1975 no longer selling their own myth. They sound relieved. After a decade of playing the self-referential and pop-minded rock band – frontman Matty Healy’s famous “a millennial that baby-boomers like” lyric can still summarize why people love and hate him – the British band made a straight-up pop record. It will feel instantly familiar to anyone who follows their new collaborator on this project, Jack Antonoff. The latter’s co-production will not change your mind, whether you believe he brings a more adventurous side out of his collaborators (Taylor Swift, Lorde, Lana del Rey) or simply bends them to his will, insisting that the sound of music peaked with Springsteen’s Tunnel of Love. The main question going into this album: Is this a ...
Listen to The 1975 Long for Love in ‘All I Need to Hear’
The 1975 have shared another new single off their forthcoming, previously reported, Being Funny In A Foreign Language. The release of “All I Need To Hear” is accompanied by a Samuel Bradley-directed live performance video that was recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in the U.K. [embedded content][embedded content] While talking to Apple Music 1 about the new single, frontman Matt Healy said of the track: “A lot of my songs require me to perform them, but I think that I’d love to hear Joe Cocker [sing this]–not that we could have that, but it feels like one of those songs where it’s like I’ve stepped out of the Matty-ness of everything. “And it’s something that Adele could sing, it would make total sense, and she wouldn’t have to talk about jacking off or what [The 1975’s] u...
The 1975 Unveil ‘Happiness’ Video, Announce Fall Tour Dates
Last month, British pop rock band the 1975 announced that their new album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language, will be released on Oct. 14. So far, the band has shared the tracklisting and its first single, “Part of the Band.” Today, the Matty Healy-led group released a new video for “Happiness.” [embedded content][embedded content] Being Funny in a Foreign Language is the band’s fifth album. It’s their first since 2020’s Notes on a Conditional Form. It was recorded at Real World Studios in Wiltshire, England and Electric Lady Studios in New York City. THe 1975 will also be touring in the U.S. later this year. It starts on Nov. 3 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut and wraps up on Dec. 17 with a date at Pittsburgh’s UPMC Events Center. The 1975 Fall 2022 Tour Dates: 11/3/22 – Uncasville, CT...
25 Artists, 25 Albums, 25 Years of Vagrant Records
For much of the last quarter-century, Vagrant Records has been synonymous with the emo and alternative scenes. Much like how Epitaph Records and Fat Wreck Chords have become well-established homes for punk, Vagrant remains one of the most significant labels in the world thanks to a catalog featuring hundreds of beloved albums and dozens of all-time classics. Beginning with the launch of the Get Up Kids’ Something to Write Home About on Sept. 28, 1999, Vagrant went on a several-year run that included some of the biggest names of the 2000s, ranging from Saves the Day to Alkaline Trio, Dashboard Confessional to Rocket from the Crypt. But rather than hanging the past when artists left for to major labels, breaking up, or otherwise parting ways with Vagrant, the label adapted, expandi...
Nile Rodgers, The 1975, Lily Allen and More Sign Open Letter Combating Hate in the Music Industry
More than 700 members of the UK music industry, including artists, managers, record label execs, agents, songwriters and producers, have joined forces and signed an open letter vowing to combat hate. “In recent months through a series of events and incidents, the anti-black racists and antisemites, plus those who advocate islamophobia, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia, have repeatedly demonstrated that they clearly want us all to fail,” the letter reads. “Whether it be systemic racism and racial inequality highlighted by continued police brutality in America or anti-Jewish racism promulgated through online attacks, the result is the same: suspicion, hatred and division. We are at our worst when we attack one another.” “All forms of racism have the same r...
The 101 Best Albums of the 2010s
Why now? Because — and there’s no reason to ignore the elephant in the room: SPIN stewardship has changed hands many, many times since we made the online jump — we got our chance. Because plenty of our favorite albums of the last 10 years could still use a boost. Because some of the already unanimously beloved music on this list still merits further praise. Because we relish excuses to sound off on the music that’s affected us the most and to enlist some of our favorite writers to do so. Because the works of art below serve as a reminder that the 2010s weren’t all bad. Because lord knows we need the distraction. Because it’s fun. There’s a lot of music that isn’t on this list. Which, duh, but plenty of artists whose work defined the decade for many, many people, including many of us, ...
The Me & 1975 Together Review
Right, the 1975. I’m dating someone who said, “don’t forget to mention that they’re annoying.” How do you forget anything with this band really; their every maneuver comes with a flashing neon sign that reads “this is the Britpop power ballad” or “tracks 9-12 listened to too much M83 (which is any at all, really).” The only thing that’s easy to forget about the 1975 is anyone in the band’s name that isn’t Matty Healy. In fact, I’m not even sure I could tell you how many people are in the band. Is it four? And they deny being a “rock band” because in 2020 that term is considered to be more limiting than “boy band,” which both the 1975 and Brockhampton have identified as, to increased critical acclaim. So it doesn’t matter. That’s why Notes on a Conditional Form (“this is the overindulgent f...
The 1975’s Matt Healy Deactivates Twitter Account After Promoting Song With Black Lives Matter Tweet
As the tensions and protest grow in Minneapolis and the U.S., following the killing of George Floyd earlier this week, musicians have been sharing their thoughts about the current situation. The 1975’s Matt Healy wanted to do the same. However when he paired it with the band’s video for “Love It If We Made It,” it didn’t sit well with people in the Twitterverse, which then led the singer to deactivate his Twitter account altogether. “If you truly believe that ‘ALL LIVES MATTER’ you need to stop facilitating the end of black ones,” he wrote in the now-deleted tweet. Healy is known for sharing his unfiltered thoughts from his own struggles with addiction to the 2017 bombing in Manchester. After posting the tweet, he was accused of promoting his own work in the guise of the Black Lives Matter...
The 50 Best Songs of 2020 (So Far)
Great songs have a freedom that albums don’t because great songs only have to pull off their trick once. It’s like how a great SNL sketch can be a terrible movie or why Vine was an underrated miracle of online comedy. Sometimes an artist can get a lot more done in miniature. When people say that no one listens to albums anymore, they’re obviously mistaken, but they mean that no one listens to certain kinds of albums anymore. They won’t wait to get to the good part, and an industry that’s been padding out their wares for decades has had to adapt to a new reality where the customer is always dope. From Hailey Whitters to Hayley Williams, from King Von to Christine and the Queens, here’s a supercut of just the good parts: The songs that have challenged and delighted and comforted us through a...
