Tune Yards

Plus: Efterklang cover Piano Magic, Spencer. covers Grimes, and Bing and Ruth cover the Pixies. 4AD‘s 40th anniversary album ‘Bills & Aches & Blues‘ is out April 2.

‘Bills & Aches & Blues‘ features 18 artists from 4AD’s current roster covering songs from throughout the label’s 40 years, including Jenny Hval, Aldous Harding, US Girls, Bradford Cox, Efterklang, and more.

Tune-Yards, Modeselektor, Cloud Nothings, Vernon Reid, Béla Fleck, Fire-Toolz, Lupe Fiasco, Sheila E, Eddie Palmieri, Pharoahe Monch, Mike Portnoy, and more have also paid tribute to the jazz fusion great.

Tune-Yards took inspiration from ’Beastie Boys Book’ and Questlove’s ’Creative Quest’ for their upcoming fifth album.

The 2021 End of the Road Festival is currently set to happen September 2-5 in Dorset UK with Pixies, Big Thief, Perfume Genius and King Krule headlining.

Bright Eyes, Phoebe Bridgers, Angel Olsen, Beach House, Death Cab for Cutie, Fleet Foxes, Foo Fighters, Jeff Rosenstock, Jenny Lewis, Jimmy Eat World, Julien Baker, Keith Morris, Sharon Van Etten, Sleater-Kinney, and many more have also lent their support to ”We Need Every Voice.”

Sylvan Esso, The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy, Kurt Vile, Amanda Palmer, Tune-Yards, Overcoats and more have recorded live sessions for the “Team Joe Sings” online concert series in support of the Biden / Harris ticket for President…

Listen to new songs by Tune-Yards, Fleet Foxes, The Damned, Berwyn, William Basinski, Steven Wilson, Hen Ogledd (Richard Dawson), Tim Heidecker/Weyes Blood, Sylvan Esso, and more…

’Mirror Sound,’ a collaboration with Spencer, Lawrence Azerrad, and Daniel Topete, takes a look at the self-recording process of various artists.

‘Haunted Painting’ features guest vocals from Helado Negro’s Roberto Lange, Deerhoof’s Satomi Matsuzaki, Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus, and Pile’s Rick Maguire.