Stereogum — Austin hometown heroes Spoon return to Austin City Limits this weekend, and today we’ve got an early preview. The band’s six-song setlist includes lots of material from last year’s great They Want My Soul, but their performance of the title tra... more info

Stereogum — With the press cycle for They Want My Soul slowing down, I wasn’t expecting to hear any new Spoon songs for a very long time, but it turns out the band debuted a new song called “Satellite” in Houston just before the new year. It’s a nervous,... more info

Pop Headwound — It’s become way too hard (and not as fulfilling) to try to maintain Pop Headwound as I get older. Music is still there, and it still echoes around my car and my headphones and my living room and it is still affecting me in the same ways it al... more info

Stereogum — Spoon’s shimmering groove “Inside Out” and Dej Loaf’s twinkling Detroit rap hit “Try Me” are two of the songs that snuck up on us the hardest as this past summer drew to a close. And now, in the grand tradition of their Taylor Swift/Kendr... more info

Stereogum — It has to be an intimidating thing to remix Spoon. You have to know, somewhere deep within yourself, that there’s no way you’re going to improve on the original; an interesting take is the best you can hope for. So credit San Francisco ambient po... more info

Stereogum — Spoon made one of the best albums of the year with They Want My Soul and, being the workhorses that they are, the band isn’t slowing down. They shot an episode of Austin City Limits recently, and it’ll be the band’s fourth appearance on the sho... more info

Stereogum — Chicago’s Ghastly Menace specialize in soaring orchestral pop, music that reveals hidden layers the more that you listen to it. They certainly take inspiration from their indie-rock forefathers like Grizzly Bear and Spoon, but they work within a fo... more info

Stereogum — Spoon played The Daily Show in their hometown last night — the late-night program has relocated to Austin, Texas this week for South By South Mess, a special segment that they did in the run-up to this year’s midterm elections. The did three They... more info

Stereogum — Spoon songs tend to be impeccably recorded, with lots of empty space, so you’d think they’d be irresistible for remixers. But we haven’t encountered too many Spoon remixes, especially official Spoon remixes, over the years, perhaps because the ... more info

Stereogum — Split Single is a supergroup of sorts: The band consists of drummer Jon Wurster from Superchunk and the Mountain Goats, Britt Daniel of Spoon, and frontman Jason Narducy from Bob Mould’s band, Superchunk, and the owner of some outrageously sexy elb... more info