Listen to Amanda Palmer and Jherek Bisch...

Earlier this year, Amanda Palmer teamed up with Jherek Bischoff for Strung Out in Heaven, a David Bowie covers EP. Now the two have paired up once more to cover Prince. The 10-minute string quartet cover begins with the intro to “Let’s Go Crazy” before Palmer moves into singing “Purple Rain.” The proceeds from the cover will be donated to Elevate Hope–a charity that provides music therapy for abused and abandoned children. Stream the song, see the cover art (by Sarah Beetson), and read Palmer and Bischoff’s respective statements about the song below. See more tributes and...

Surfer Blood Guitarist Thomas Fekete Has...

Surfer Blood guitarist Thomas Fekete has died. The news was shared by his wife, who said he passed away last night. The cause was complications from a rare form of cancer, which Fekete was diagnosed with last year. “I am full of comfort knowing that he is now free, and long for the day I get to be with him again,” she wrote on the GoFundMe page established to assist with the costs of treatment. Update (11:31 a.m.): The band paid tribute to Fekete on Twitter. Find that below. Fekete was a founding member of Surfer Blood, who formed in 2009. Surfer...

Axwell Λ Ingrosso Swap Faces in “Thinkin...

Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso—two thirds of the former DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia—have teamed up as Axwell Λ Ingrosso. Their latest track, “Thinking About You,” now has a video. Watch it below. Directed by Nicolas Caeyers, it features the duo face-swapping with a dancer in a boardroom, the bride at a wedding, children, and more. Axwell Λ Ingrosso head out on tour soon. See their dates below. Axwell Λ Ingrosso: 06-11 Seoul, Republic of Korea – Ultra06-17 Las Vegas, NV – Hakkasan06-18 Las Vegas, NV – EDC Vegas06-25 Scheessel, Germany –...

Tame Impala, Damon Albarn, Christine and...

This year’s Glastonbury Festival will take place in Pilton, England, from June 22-26. Today, the lineup has been announced in full. Damon Albarn and the Africa Express will open the Pyramid Stage on Friday morning, while Tame Impala will play just before Adele’s Saturday headline set. Eavis also revealed the organizers will host a new event “in 2019 or 2018, but probably 2019,” in a new location, the Guardian reports. “We are going to do a show somewhere else with the same team behind Glastonbury but it hasn’t got a name yet and we’re still not entirely sure...

Kraftwerk Lose Hip-Hop Copyright Case

Kraftwerk have lost a copyright battle in Germany’s highest court over a two-second drum sample, the BBC reports. The ruling gives artists greater freedom to sample small segments of copyrighted music, as well as acknowledging “the essential place that the practice of sampling has in the hip-hop genre,” according to AFP.  The dispute began almost two decades ago, when Kraftwerk’s Ralf Hütter claimed that Moses Pelham, a hip-hop producer, had infringed Kraftwerk’s intellectual property rights by sampling “Metall auf Metall” (“Metal on Metal”) without permission...