Fleet Foxes Award Crack-Up Test Pressing...

Robin Pecknold has been very active on Instagram throughout the process of making the new Fleet Foxes LP Crack-Up. He’s offered snippets of new music and shared album updates, detailed plans for the band tour, revealed the album’s length and influences, and said that the new album picks up right where 2011’s Hopelessness Blues left off. Recently, he previewed the new Crack-Up vinyl packaging. Twenty of Pecknold’s most active Instagram commenters won’t need one, though, because they were each awarded signed test pressings of the new album. Pecknold fittingly took to...

Watch the Weeknd Bring Out Kendrick Lama...

Last night, the Weeknd brought out Kendrick Lamar as a surprise guest at his show at the Forum in Los Angeles. During the set, Kendrick surprised the crowd by emerging from beneath the stage. He immediately launched into his verse on “Sidewalks” from the Weekend’s 2016 Starboy album. Kendrick also performed “HUMBLE.” from his recent excellent album DAMN. Check out clips from the performance below. This isn’t the first time the two have shared the stage in L.A.—the two appeared together late last year. Kendrick recently performed headlining sets at Coachella 2017, where he...

Watch Peaches Perform “Boys Wanna Be Her...

The theme song of Samantha Bee’s late night TBS show “Full Frontal” is Peaches’ 2006 single “Boys Wanna Be Her.” Last night, Bee threw a special called “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” and sure enough, the show was opened and closed by Peaches performing the track live. Watch it happen below. The show—Bee’s alternative to the Trump-free official Correspondents’ Dinner—also featured appearances from Will Ferrell (who reprised his George W. Bush impression) and Allison Janney (who opened the show as her “West Wing” character C.J. Cregg). Find the full...

Mac DeMarco Announces Listening Party an...

Mac DeMarco has announced a listening party for his new album This Old Dog. The event will take place in Los Angeles on April 30 (which happens to be his birthday). DeMarco will debut his new album at the event as well as “#unreleasedmalarky and #demos,” according to his Instagram. As was the case with his previous listening party for 2015’s Another One, there will also be a barbecue, with hot dogs available to attendees in exchange for food bank donations. See DeMarco’s post about the event below. Mac recently shared the new song “One More Love Song.” He will embark on a...

Metallica Replace Metallica Tribute Band...

Blistered Earth—a Metallica tribute band from Spokane, Washington—had all of their gear stolen after a show last Saturday in Portland. After listing all the instruments and gear that was nabbed, the band’s story got the attention of the media. Then, they got some help from an unexpected source—Metallica themselves. “James [Hetfield] & the rest of the guys in Metallica (thanx guys) have seen fit to replace our equipment,” the band wrote on Facebook. A representative for Metallica confirmed the news to Pitchfork. Shawn Murphy, a drummer in Blistered Earth, gave an...