Simon and Garfunkel have broken into the top ten on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart thanks to “Sound of Silence” being included in a viral video that shows Ben Affleck looking existentially sad after being asked about the overwhelmingly negative reviews for his new movie Batman v Superman. The video now has over 20 million views on…

David Byrne has released a remix of his 2007 song “How Does the Brain Wave” — a collaboration with keyboardist Bernie Worrell and DJ Prince Paul — to support Worrell, who has been diagnosed with prostate, liver, and lung cancer. Worrell, a member of Parliament-Funkadelic, played extensively with Talking Heads in the 1980s. On Monday night, a New York…

You’ve been able to hear the Beatles catalog on your favorite streaming service for over three months now — but not quite the whole Beatles catalog. Those of you who were dying to be able to stream “Free as a Bird,” plus the six discs’ worth of rarities and alternate takes that constitute the mid-90s Anthology series will be…

Toki Wright and students from St. Paul’s McNally Smith College of Music have created a hip-hop mixtape called Watch the Stove, featuring contributions from Bobby Raps (thestand4rd) and DJ Tiiiiiiiiiip. As you might guess from the song titles — including “In Love with the Glove,” “Food for Your Soul,” and “Hamburger Helper” — the project was sponsored by…

Thursday night features the first of two concerts in tribute to the late David Bowie. The show, live from Carnegie Hall is being streamed – for a recommended donation of at least $5 – via Skype. Access to the stream can be found at musicofdavidbowie.com. The show, however, appears to be going on without the…

Local writer, historian and doodler Andy Sturdevant strikes again. In his semi-regular MinnPost feature, “The Stroll,” Sturdevant takes Bob Mehr’s Trouble Boys as a “star map” of sorts to the old stomping grounds of The Replacements. While it recounts some of the more familiar landmarks chronicled elsewhere, the article draws a strong connection between the…

On Monday night at Madison Square Garden, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band made a stop on their tour commemorating the 1980 album, The River. In the audience was Springsteen’s 90-year-old mother, Adele. As he performed “Ramrod,” The Boss paid her a visit and the two shared a dance. (Stereogum) Lineup for this year’s FYF Fest…

On Sunday night, LCD Soundsystem reunited for their first show in five years, performing at New York City’s Webster Hall. The show was a warm-up for their upcoming headlining gig at Coachella, as made clear by the Webster Hall marquee which read, “Test in Progress, Please Stand By.” LCD Soundsystem kicked off their 15-song set…

During Saturday night’s concert at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, guitarist James Iha rejoined former Smashing Pumpkins bandmates Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain to perform a handful of songs from their landmark 1993 LP, Siamese Dream. “Yes, it’s James Iha,” Corgan told the stunned crowd. (Rolling Stone) Rolling Stones perform for an estimated 500,000 Cubans in…

Apple Music and Vice have launched a music documentary series called The Score. The series will explore music across the country, and the first episode, “Reservation Rap,” spotlights Ojibwe hip-hop artists from northern Minnesota. Baby Shel, Tall Paul, Thomas X, and Left Field appear in the two-part documentary, which clocks in at just under 20 minutes and is now streaming…