After seeing a show by Spoon on Friday night in Portland, Maine, many concertgoers headed over to an afterparty featuring a Spoon cover band headed by local musician Jeff Beam. The audience at the 200-capacity club were surprised when Spoon themselves showed up to jump onstage and play a few songs using the cover band’s instruments. (Pitchfork)…

Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood says that the band’s forthcoming album will include the first officially-released recording of “Lift,” a song Radiohead first performed in 1996. Greenwood suggested that the band never found the right arrangement of “Lift” until now. (Billboard) Apple has denied reports that it’s threatening to remove artists’ music from the iTunes Store if…

Presidential candidate Donald Trump has agreed to stop using Neil Young‘s “Rockin’ in the Free World” at campaign events. When the song played at Trump’s campaign launch, Young shot back that he’s (a) Canadian and (b) endorsing Bernie Sanders for U.S. President. “There are plenty of other songs to choose from, despite the fact that Mr. Trump…

With the approval of the estate of Charles M. Schulz, Hot Chip have released a line of limited-edition shirts inspired by 1960s designs featuring the Peanuts characters. (Pitchfork) The Foo Fighters have cancelled all remaining European tour dates, including a slot at the Glastonbury festival, as Dave Grohl recovers from a broken leg he suffered due to a fall…

The Internet is buzzing with reports that Prince played a semi-secret show for Barack and Michelle Obama as well as several hundred VIP guests at the White House on Saturday night—but the White House will not officially confirm that Prince attended the event, though spokesman Josh Earnest says the Obamas threw the party “on their own dime.” Reports suggest…

Sir Van Morrison was knighted by Queen Elizabeth on Friday, in honor of his “services to the music industry and to tourism in Northern Ireland.” As a knighted rocker, the 69-year-old singer-songwriter joins the ranks of Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Mick Jagger, and Sir Bono. (Rolling Stone) It was an eventful weekend at Bonnaroo. The festival’s annual SuperJam featured…

A July 6 concert celebrating the late Waylon Jennings will reunite the two surviving Highwaymen: Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. The country supergroup, who released three albums in the 1980s and 1990s, also included Johnny Cash. The Austin, Texas concert will be filmed for later release. (Rolling Stone) Chance the Rapper is curating a free music festival for teens on June 24…

In February, Jack White realized his dream and got coffee with “Weird Al” Yankovic. Now, Yankovic has stopped by White’s Third Man Records in Nashville to record a bizarre chant in the store’s make-your-own-record booth. The chant is a multi-song medley that Yankovic and his band typically perform live as part of the song “Yoda.” Yankovic’s review…

In 1977, the Sex Pistols signed with Virgin Records. The long evolution of the Virgin brand now includes a bank called Virgin Money, which has announced that it will offer a pair of Sex Pistols credit cards. “The Sex Pistols challenged convention and the established ways of thinking,” Virgin Money’s card director told The Guardian, “just as…

On Monday at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, the computer giant announced a new streaming music service to be called, simply, Apple Music. The service will launch at the end of this month, at a price of $9.99 per month with the first three months being free. In addition to allowing you…