April 15, 2013 – Daft Punk revealed that Pharrell Williams made the guest list for the French duo's upcoming album, Random Access Memories (due May 21 from Columbia Records), by dropping a trailer for the pending full-length at Coachella this past weekend.

April 15, 2013 – CHVRCHES took it upon themselves to craft their steeped-in-synth cover of the Game of Thrones theme song, but David Benioff and Dan Weiss — the showrunners behind the HBO fantasy epic — actually requested a specific band to record a studio version of "The Bear & the Maiden Fair," a song featured on last night's episode (April 14)."['The Bear & the Maiden Fair'] is one of the most popular songs in Westeros, beloved by nobles and commoners alike, sung at taverns and feasts and etc," Benioff and Weiss told Entertainment Weekly recently.

April 15, 2013 – In SPIN's recent cover story on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, frontwoman Karen O and guitarist Nick Zinner agreed that two albums provided the ever-adaptable trio with the most inspiration while they crafted their latest LP, Mosquito: Kanye West's insta-classic My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Anika, the self-titled 2010 debut album from the Berlin/Bristol-based singer. Zinner described both touchstones as records that "jumped out as being totally fucking outsider, left-of-the-box music. They didn't sound like anything else that I'd heard."Anika will issue another collection of noir-flavored oddities on April 16 when Stones Throw Records releases the Anika EP, produced by Portishead's Geoff Barrow. In advance of the short-player's debut, SPIN is premiering the video for "I Go to Sleep," a séance-ready reverie that's been translated to film by German director Uli M.

April 13, 2013 – Yesterday, when PSY finally unleashed "Gentleman", the follow-up single to last year's relentless "Gangnam Style", SPIN's Marc Hogan observed that the EDM-indebted K-Pop track's true success would be tested when the song's music video arrived.

April 13, 2013 – Daft Punk aren't on the bill for Coachella this year, but the futuristic French duo did make an appearance at the annual Indio festival last night (April 12), by way of a new trailer for their upcoming full-length, Random Access Memories (out May 21 via Columbia Records). The just-under-two-minute clip features an extended peek at "Get Lucky," the first sliver of new music to surface from Daft Punk's long-awaited Human After All follow-up, and also confirms the pending LP's star-studded list of collaborators.Pharrell Williams sings lead vocals in the above video, with previously confirmed Random Access Memories guest Nile Rodgers supplying glittery, disco-flavored guitar work.

April 13, 2013 – Shuggie Otis spent the better part of the last few decades relegated to pop music's margins. Sure, the singer-guitarist's third album, 1974's Inspiration Information, has been sampled by Beyoncé and OutKast, but, as SPIN's David Marchese recently noted, the "dreamy, virtuosic collection of lilting funk, guileless pop, and drifting soundscapes" was long cherished by only a select group of devotees.Otis enjoyed some national exposure last night (April 12), though, as he dropped by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon for a funky twofer. During the television broadcast, the cult legend performed the title track off Inspiration Information, which will be reissued on April 16 as Inspiration Information / Wings of Love, a two-disc package collecting previously unreleased live and studio tracks recorded between 1975 and 2000.

April 12, 2013 – Diplo dropped by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night (April 11), debuted a music video for Major Lazer's "Watch Out for This (Bumaye)" today, and the producer's second full-length under the ML moniker, Free the Universe, arrives on April 16. As if all that weren't enough, Diplo will soon be producing a feature-length film about... wait for it... fans trying to get into a Diplo show.According to the Hollywood Reporter, Diplo will executive produce the project with his business partner, Kevin Kusatsu, for 20th Century Fox. The film, which will be written by Adam Weinstock and Andy Jones, does not yet have a title.Billed as a cross between 8 Mile and Project X, the movie will follow three teenagers as they attempt to get into a Diplo show.

April 12, 2013 – Gucci Mane is currently being held on a $75,000 bond after allegedly hitting a fan in the head with a champagne bottle at an Atlanta nightclub last month, the Associated Press reports. A judge initially denied Mane bail citing his long history of legal troubles (see: run-ins involving murder, cocaine, reckless driving, and more), in addition to this latest aggravated assault charge.Drew Findling, the attorney representing Gucci Mane (born Radric Davis), said that the Alabama-born rapper plans to post bond in Georgia's Fulton County. Following that, Davis will be transferred to DeKalb County, where he reportedly has a hold placed on him because of his probation stemming from an unrelated misdemeanor charge.The nightclub incident reportedly occurred on March 16, when the victim, a soldier named James Lettley, tried to take a picture with the MC.

April 12, 2013 – Perhaps as a nod to her professional-model-turned-singer-songwriter origin story, Carmen Villain — a.k.a. Carmen Maria Hillestad, former cover girl for Vogue, Glamour, Nylon, Elle, and more — spends the majority of her new music video directly in front of the camera. "Easy" is a shaggy, seething slab of shoegaze off Villain's recently released debut album, Sleeper, but the track's companion clip clings to a narrow focus: monochromatic close-ups of the Best New Artist alumna that cut away to headshots of several other young, attractive people glaring into the lens, looking a little depressed. The view pans across several outdoor locations (a bit of bleak countryside, a dimly lit street late at night) but the camera can't keep away from Villain. Consider this her formal reintroduction, just ahead of her first-ever New York City gig, happening at Pianos on April 23.

April 12, 2013 – GWAR are planning the fourth annual GWAR-B-Q for August 17 and the heavy metal stalwarts have invited Municipal Waste, Corrosion of Conformity, Pig Destroyer, Cannabis Corpse, Loincloth, Kung-Fu Dykes, and more to join. The single-day festival will take place at Hadad’s Water Park in GWAR's hometown of Richmond, Virginia.Additional performers and ticketing information will be announced in the coming weeks, but, as the event's website points out, festival-goers can expect a "plethora of devastating acts" spread across two stages.