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New Feist album out in April reportedly

Feist has not played a show since 2014, and has not released an album since 2011. However, with her being on the lineup for the Eaux Claires festival this summer, signs are beginning to appear that she might be up to something. Now, in an aside in a recent Huffington Post article about her charity initiative to collect backpacks for HIV-positive children in Malawi:

Feist has been largely off the radar since the 2011 release of her award-winning album “Metals” and since the album’s subsequent tour came to a close the end of the following year. (Fans can expect her long-awaited follow-up in April as well as her vocals on the upcoming Broken Social Scene record.)

Feist even shared a link to the article on her official Facebook page, which appears to confirm the news.

Arca shares new video for new song “Anoche”

Arca is releasing a new self-titled album on XL on April 7th. The latest sampling from the album is the new song “Anoche,” and he’s shared a video as well for the song. Watch it below. Directed by longtime collaborator Jesse Kanda, it shows Alejandro Ghersi in a black room, performing a mournful dance amongst scattered corpses. Arca’s last album, Mutant, was released in 2015 and last year, the producer released a 14-track album for free called Entrañas.

Bob’s Burgers Music Album features St. Vincent, the National, Aziz Ansari, More

The critically-acclaimed Fox TV show, “Bob’s Burgers,” which has previously teamed up with artists including the National and Sleater-Kinney, is releasing an album through Sub Pop. The Bob’s Burgers Music Album, which is set to be out on May 12th will feature 112 short songs from the regular cast members like Kristen Schaal, H. Jon Benjamin, and John Roberts. Featured guests include Sarah Silverman, Aziz Ansari, Bill Hader, Paul Rudd, Fred Armisen, and Zach Galifianakis. The release will also include the Bob’s Buskers series where St. Vincent, the National, Stephin Merritt, and more covered Bob’s Burgers songs. Check out the full tracklist here.

Watch the National and Låpsley’s cover of “Bad Stuff Happens in the Bathroom” below as well as cast’s performance of the track, the theme song and an unboxing video:

Spoon announce tour

Spoon have announced tour dates for 2017. The band will play the United States and Germany starting with a show on April 27 in Mobile, Alabama in support of their upcoming new album Hot Thoughts. The band have shared the title track from the new album so far. Check out the band’s tour itinerary below. Hot Thoughts is due out March 17th via Matador.

Spoon:

02-27 London, England – 100 Club
03-06 Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory
03-14-16 Austin, TX – The Main (SXSW Residency)
03-23 Sydney, Australia – Metro Theatre
03-25 Thornbury, Australia – The Croxton Bandroom
04-27 Mobile, AL – Soul Kitchen
04-28 Oxford, MS – The Lyric
04-29 Baton Rouge, LA – Varsity Theatre
05-01 Tampa, FL – The Ritz Ybor
05-02 Lake Buena Vista, FL – House of Blues
05-03 Athens, GA – Georgia theater
05-05 Charleston, SC – Music Farm
05-07 Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
05-09 Knoxville, TN – The Mill & Mine
05-11 Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
06-17 Berlin, Germany – Festaal Kreuzberg
06-18 Mannheim, Germany – Maifeld Derby Festival
06-19 Munich, Germany – Technikum
06-27 Manchester, England – Gorilla
06-28 Glasgow, Scotland – The Arts School
06-30 London, England – O2 Forum
07-07 Madrid, Spain – Mad Cool Festival
07-08 Lisbon, Portugal – NOS Alive
07-14 Louisville, KY – Forecastle Festival
07-15 Birmingham, AL – Sloss Festival
07-28 New York, NY – Panorama Festival
07-30 Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
08-06 Hollywood, CA – Hollywood Bowl
08-08 Aspen, CO – Belly Up Aspen
08-09 Bellvue, CO – Mishawaka Amphitheatre

Listen to Speedy Ortiz’s new song “In My Way”

Speedy Ortiz have released a new song, “In My Way.” It is part of the anti-Trump compilation Our First 100 Days on bandcamp, where a new song is released every day for the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. Listen to “In My Way” below. 2015’s Foil Deer and last year’s Foiled Again EP were Speedy Ortiz’s last releases. Sadie Dupuis from Speedy Ortiz also released a solo album, Slugger, as Sad13 in 2016.

James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” Clyde Stubblefield dead at 73

The iconic drummer for James Brown, Clyde Stubblefield, who became a staple in hip-hop sampling, has died of kidney failure, Rolling Stone reports. Stubblefield played on several of Brown’s classics, including “Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine” and “Cold Sweat.” He is best known for his iconic solo in “Funky Drummer,” prominently sampled by LL Cool J (“Mama Said Knock You Out”), Public Enemy (“Bring the Noise” and “Fight the Power”), and N.W.A. (“Fuck tha Police”). Prince, the Beastie Boys, Dr. Dre, George Michael and more.

“There have been faster, and there have been stronger, but Clyde Stubblefield has a marksman’s left hand unlike any drummer in the 20th century,” Questlove said once about the drummer in a 2011 interview: “It is he who defined funk music.”

Wilco reveal lineup for Solid Sound Festival

Wilco have announced the lineup for their Solid Sound Festival. Performers include Television, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Kevin Morby, Big Thief, Robert Glasper Experiment, Daniel Bachman, Joan Shelley, Jeff Parker Trio, the Nels Cline Four, and Tweedy. Wilco will headline the first two nights of the festival. John Hodgman also curated the comedy for the fest. Check out the full lineup here. Solid Sound will take place from Friday June 23rd to June 25th at MASS MoCa in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Tickets are available at the festival’s official website.

Watch Tituss Burgess play Beyoncé in “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” season 3 trailer

“The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” on Netflix is returning for a third season. To celebrate the announcement of its air date—May 19th—the show released a trailer where Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess) patrols the streets with a baseball bat, like Beyoncé’s Lemonade. It is soundtracked by a parody of “Hold Up,” sung by Titus himself. Watch it out below.

Animal Collective debut new song “Kinda Bonkers” from forthcoming The Paints EP
Animal Collective on Thursday began San Francisco’s Noise Pop Festival by performing a DJ set at the California Academy of Sciences. The group debuted a new song entitled “Kinda Bonkers” during their set, according to a Redditor who was there and Shazam’d it. As Shazam indicates, “Kinda Bonkers” will be on the upcoming The Painters EP, which will possibly serve as a sequel or companion to last year’s Painting With.Check out the song and video below, via Reddit.

Prince to return to streaming services on Sunday

Prince’s music is officially returning to streaming services this Sunday, NPR reports. A press release sent by Napster and received by NPR confirms rumors that Prince’s Warner Bros. catalog, which has classic albums like Purple Rain, 1999, Sign O’ the Times, and Dirty Mind, will be put onto streaming services the same day as the Grammys.

They are yet to announce what time on Sunday the music will be released.

Prince’s discography has not been available on any streaming platform, except for Tidal, since 2015.

Today, Universal Music Group announced that it signed a deal with Prince’s estate to manage Prince’s non-Warner Bros. NPG Records catalog along with unreleased material, Billboard reports. This will begin going towards the future release of music from Prince’s legendary vault of recordings from his career.