Prince is kicking off his “Hit & Run” tour in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday, and while no further stops have yet been announced, he and his band 3RDEYEGIRL are showing Louisville a lot of love. They’ve added two Sunday shows to the originally announced pair of Saturday shows, for a total of four shows this weekend. They also gave a…

Courtney Barnett, set to release her much-anticipated new album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit on March 24—and play Rock the Garden on June 20—previewed several songs from the album at a show in her home town of Melbourne, Australia. See video at Pitchfork. The trailer for Montage of Heck, the first authorized Kurt Cobain documentary,…

Snoop Dogg will be this year’s SXSW keynote speaker, following in the footsteps of Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and Lady Gaga. (Billboard) Meanwhile, Snoop—who’s seen his share of gun violence—is joining Aloe Blacc and others in a call for individuals with retirement savings account to divest from the gun industry. (Rolling Stone) A Los Angeles jury declared yesterday that Pharrell Williams…

The soundtrack to Montage of Heck, the authorized Kurt Cobain documentary premiering May 4 on HBO, will feature a previously unreleased 12-minute Cobain song recorded alone with an acoustic guitar. The film’s director describes the track as “mind-blowing,” but the album’s release date has not yet been announced. (Rolling Stone) Franz Ferdinand and Sparks will join forces to form a new…

Author Nick Hornby doesn’t plan to write a sequel to his 1995 novel High Fidelity (made into a 2000 movie, above), but he speculates that if he did catch up with the novel’s lead characters 20 years later, they’d be raising kids—but separately, having ultimately broken up. Hornby says that one sticking point for him in conceiving a…

Kurt Cobain‘s childhood home in Aberdeen, Washington is on the market for $400,000. According to the real estate agency handling the sale, the home still bears marks from Cobain’s childhood—literally, in the sense of drawings he made on the wall and a hole he punched with his fist as a teenager. (Reuters) The most famous…

When Star Tribune reporter Libor Jany tweeted a photo of Prince‘s high school basketball team, he couldn’t have guessed it would go viral—after all, the photo was already published in the newspaper, in 1984. National blogs loved the rediscovered photo of an afro-sporting Prince in his Bryant Junior High days, though, and Jany got hundreds…

When a musician is about to have her own exhibit at MoMA, the stakes are high for any new album art. In the just-released cover image for physical releases of Vulnicura, Björk doesn’t disappoint. (Pitchfork) Bob Dylan apparently has another album’s worth of Frank Sinatra covers in the can—according to former Dylan producer Daniel Lanois, who says he’s heard…

Remember when Bob Dylan issued a casting call for actors to play some unsavory characters? The video he was planning to shoot has now been released; it’s a noir black-and-white production that accompanies Dylan’s version of “The Night We Called It a Day,” with Dylan himself co-starring as a man involved in a tragic love triangle. (Rolling…

Björk is keeping her new album Vulnicura off Spotify, at least for the time being. Echoing comments made by Taylor Swift and other artists, Björk says that “this streaming thing just does not feel right. I don’t know why, but it just seems insane…To work on something for two or three years and then just, Oh, here it…