Is Eric Harvey over-qualified, under-qualified, or perfectly qualified to be in a rock band? It’s a fair question to pose to this New York-born guitarist and keyboardist. In 2003, a year before he ...

For more than 20 years, the band Spoon has been a staple of the indie rock circuit, blending rock, pop and punk. On their new album, "Hot Thoughts," Rolling Stone says the band "doubles down on beat ...

There is no chance the thought hasn’t crossed your mind at when you’re watching a cover band: What if the real stars went up on stage and started playing their songs alongside the little guys? But ...

On Friday, indie-rock mainstays Spoon played a show at the State Theatre in Portland, Maine. Later, a Spoon cover band was having an aftershow to celebrate, which seems like a reasonably nice way to ...

America’s political polarization is at a dangerous high right now. It feels almost as if nobody can agree on anything, and it’s getting harder to see where common ground might lie. With Metacritic ...

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In the midst of Spoon’s tour in support of their album Transference (they hit Radio City Music Hall on March 26), we asked lead singer Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno to explain how the indie rockers ...

After more than 20 years of activity, Britt Daniel and his band Spoon have cultivated such a reputation for consistency that it’s tempting to overstate any shift in the group’s carefully managed ...

A scant three lines long, the lyrics to Spoon's "My Little Japanese Cigarette Case" couldn't be more minimal: "It's just my Japanese cigarette case / Bring a mirror to my face / Let all my memories be ...