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News Spoon Cover Tom Petty’s “Breakdown” and “A Face in the Crowd”: Watch Recorded live at the Catacomb in Austin By Evan Minsker March 12, 2021 Facebook Twitter Spoon’s Britt Daniel, photo by Oliver Halfin Facebook Twitter Noted Tom Petty fans Spoon have shared recordings of two Tom Petty covers. Their renditions of “Breakdown” (which

News 100 gecs’ Laura Les Shares Video for New Song “Haunted”: Watch A previously unreleased track from the A2B2 Night of Fire virtual concert By Madison Bloom March 12, 2021 Facebook Twitter Laura Les, photo by Weston Allen Facebook Twitter 100 gecs’ Laura Les has shared a video for a new song called “Haunted,” a

Phoebe Bridgers appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers on Thursday (March 11) to discuss her wild year off the back of Punisher. She also brought along a special guest: Her pug was photoshopped out of a recent Variety cover but suffered no such indignity on the show. Other topics include her slap-bass-playing neighbor and

Faith No More’s Mike Patton is the latest vocalist to perform the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song. The new rendition is in the trailer for the upcoming retro-style beat-em-up game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. If you would like to hear Patton sing about Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, Splinter, and Shredder, watch the

The Weeknd has stated that he will boycott the Grammys going forward, refusing to attend or put his work forward for contention from here on out. “Because of the secret committees, I will no longer allow my label to submit my music to the Grammys,” he said in a statement to The New York Times.

It’s a Wu-Tang family battle: Raekwon and Ghostface Killah have been announced as the next VERZUZ opponents. “Steel sharpen Steel,” Raekwon wrote. It happens on March 20 at 8 p.m. Eastern. It can be viewed the VERZUZ Instagram account or via the Triller app—the new parent company of VERZUZ.  After closing out its first season

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, has died at age 94. Ottens died last Saturday, March 6, according to NRC Handelsblad. Ottens’ daughter Arine confirmed the news to WTOP. Born in 1926, Ottens first became involved with recorded music while working as head of the product development department at Dutch-based technology company

The Brooklyn-based psychedelic rock band Crumb—the quartet of Lila Ramani, Bri Aronow, Jesse Brotter, and Jonathan Gilad—have returned with a new song. “Trophy” arrives with a new music video directed by Haoyan of America and featuring animations by Truba Animation. Watch it below. The new song and video are the first taste of new music

Ibeyi have released the new song “Recurring Dream,” which the duo wrote and composed for Ed Morris’ new movie How to Stop a Recurring Dream. (Ed Morris has directed Ibeyi’s music videos for “River,” “Ghosts,” and “Deathless.”) Listen below and also check out a trailer for the film. Ibeyi last released Ash in 2017. Revisit

A new study from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative reveals the bleak reality for women in popular music. The report—compiled by Dr. Stacy L. Smith, Dr. Katherine Pieper, Hannah Clark, Ariana Case & Marc Choueiti—sought to “assess the gender and race/ethnicity of artists, songwriters and producers across the 800 top songs from

Grimes has signed with Columbia Records. “Thanks for tuning in all these years,” she tweeted. “We’ll meet again soon.” Grimes also shared a link to a new website. Find Grimes’ announcements below. Billboard first reported news of Grimes’ Columbia signing on Friday, March 5. Grimes has released all of her music via independent labels. She

Gladys Knight and Alessia Cara performed the national anthems of their respective countries at the NBA All-Star 2021 basketball game, which is being held tonight at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. Knight was present in Atlanta to sing “The Star Spangled Banner,” while Cara delivered a remote performance of “O Canada” from Toronto.

Cardi B, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, HAIM, Megan Thee Stallion, Harry Styles, Bad Bunny, DaBaby, Dua Lipa, Post Malone, and more have been announced as performers at the 2021 Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy dropped the news today (March 7), stating in a press release that “artists will be coming together, while still safely apart,

Beyoncé has released a brief a capella medley of songs in memory of Lyric Chanel, a 13-year-old girl whose two-year struggle with brain cancer was documented on Instagram before she passed away on Friday, as Rolling Stone reports. The medley, set to a slideshow of photos of Chanel, includes the songs “Brown Skin Girl” (The

Montreal producer Mike Silver is self-releasing a new CFCF album: Memoryland, the follow-up to 2019’s Liquid Colours, is out April 9. The full album features appearances by fellow Montreal music group No Joy and Kero Kero Bonito frontwoman Sarah Bonito. Take a listen to the new track “Life Is Perfecto” below and check out the

SZA has shared a new video for her song “Good Days.” The Solana-directed clip finds SZA in a psychedelic forest surrounded by giant mushrooms. Check it out below.  “Good Days” is the b-side to “Hit Different,” [ft. Ty Dolla $ign] which SZA released in September, directing the video herself. She had previously joined Justin Timberlake

Back in 2016, it was revealed that actor Joe Manganiello had gotten Morrissey’s approval to make his Smiths-inspired film Shoplifters of the World. Many years later, the film’s official trailer has arrived. Watch that below (via Entertainment Weekly). The film, directed and written by Stephen Kijak, is based on a largely embellished story about a

Chance the Rapper has shared a video for a new song called “The Heart & the Tongue.” Take a look below. Since releasing his studio album The Big Day in 2019, Chance the Rapper has hosted Saturday Night Live and Quibi’s short-lived Punk’d reboot, more recently sharing the new single “The Return.” He’s also made

No Rome has enlisted Charli XCX and the 1975 for a new single called “Spinning.” No Rome produced the track with the 1975’s Matty Healy and George Daniel. Give it a listen below. The 1975 and No Rome, who are both Dirty Hit artists, have collaborated in the past: The band hopped on No Rome’s