April 2, 2013 – Janelle Monáe paid tribute to the late, great Jimi Hendrix on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night (April 1), performing a Roots-assisted rendition of the fallen guitar god's "Little Wing." The ArchAndroid visionary doesn't pull any futurist moves on the dreamy Axis: Bold as Love ballad, which she has performed live in the past. Monáe simply offers a tender, respectful vocal performance while her trusty guitarist, Kellindo Parker, slays the solo clean. It's worth watching just to see Parker's show-stopping (literally) fret work at the 3:20 mark.

April 2, 2013 – Record Store Day 2013 (April 20) keeps getting closer, and more and more exclusives keep hitting the web. Yesterday brought the Black Lips' faithful cover of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings' "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," and today brings a melancholy, piano-led instrumental from Death Cab for Cutie guitarist/producer Chris Walla."Never Give Up" (probably not a jab at Death Cab frontman Ben Gibbard's newly resumed Postal Service gig, right?) will be packaged as a 7-inch vinyl and released via Walla's very own Trans Records label. Stream the dreary song down below. Scroll down further to hear "Incredibly Still," the single's '80s-hued B-side that comes courtesy Sombear, a Trans Records signee.

April 2, 2013 – The title track to Os Mutantes' forthcoming album, Fool Metal Jack, starts with an ending. "Yeah, I'm gonna die / Shot in the gut / My blood is everywhere," frontman Sérgio Dias croaks over a lurching bass line and stumbling percussion. "My two legs are gone / I don't feel a thing / I won't see my daddy no more."Dias, leader of the Brazilian psych-rock icons, says he was inspired to write the song — which captures a young, naïve soldier's final moments — after spotting a group of fresh-faced American soldiers boarding a plane at an airport."They were so, so, so fresh," Dias recalls. "They're not professional soldiers or anything like that. It gave me a feeling of sorrow... I understand the concept of, 'Okay, we're defending the country,' but I don't know, sometimes you have to question.

April 2, 2013 – The Hussy hail from what the psych-punk duo describes as "the politically charged cheese rectum that is Madison, Wisconsin," but Bobby and Heather Hussy's surf-squall sounds born of the same West Coast garages where Ty Segall and crew conjure vast volumes of fuzz. Fitting then that Southpaw Records, the label that issued Segall's Live in Aisle Five LP, will release the pair's upcoming third album, Pagan Hiss, on May 7. For a preview of the Hussy's furious, face-melting boy-girl dynamic, see Pagan Hiss cut "Blame" below.111936:song:Blame:The Hussy 2013 U.S.

April 1, 2013 – Paul McCartney's ongoing Out There world tour will touch down on U.S. soil this summer. The living pop legend has announced a single upcoming U.S. date: July 9 at Boston's iconic Fenway Park.According to an official announcement, "popular demand" is the main reason behind Sir Paul's impending return to the Red Sox homefield. The last time McCartney played Fenway, on August 5 and 6, 2009, the former Beatle set the record for the highest-ever two-day concert attendance in the ballpark's history. Now the Saturday Night Live all-star will follow those historic gigs with a three-hour performance that will draw on his half-century-deep catalog of tunes.Tickets for the July 9 show go on sale on April 5 at 10 a.m. via Live Nation's website or the Boston Red Sox's website.

April 1, 2013 – April Fool's Day was supposed to bring The Terror, the latest studio album from Oklahoma psych-freaks the Flaming Lips. Instead, that LP got delayed and April 1 only brought news of terrifying collaborations (see: Thom Yorke and Ted Nugent's pro-hunting musical), frightening reunions (Tilda Swinton taking up drum duties in the newly revived White Stripes), and idiotic sound bites from Chris Brown. Don't worry, though — those were just April Fool's pranks. (Well, two of them were).In honor of April 1, SPIN has rounded up some of the finest music-related April Fool's Day hoaxes the Internet had to offer today. 1. Radiohead and Ted Nugent are working on a pro-hunting musical based on the children's book We're Going on a Bear Hunt. "In the story, right, these kids go looking for this huge momma grizzly, and when they find it, they just run," a source said.

April 1, 2013 – The Black Lips are following their 2012 excursion to the Middle East by getting back in touch with America's heartland. In honor of this year's Record Store Day (April 20), the Atlanta garage punks (and former SPIN cover stars!) are releasing a 7-inch cover of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings' "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys."The Lips play it straight on country music's cautionary tale, downplaying fuzz in favor of a good ol' fashioned strumming. Stream it below, as well as the split's other track, Icky Blossoms' cover of Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Arabian Knights."The 7-inch, titled Cowboy Knights, will be out on April 20 via Saddle Creek.

April 1, 2013 – Cold Cave main man Wes Eisold has been releasing a steady stream of new material over the last few months.

April 1, 2013 – Lollapalooza 2013's lineup reportedly leaked last week, revealing that in addition to previously announced headliners Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, Mumford & Sons, the Postal Service, the Killers, and the National, fans could expect sets from the Cure, the recently reformed Nine Inch Nails, Kendrick Lamar, Grizzly Bear, Queens of the Stone Age, and more.Now SPIN can confirm that that leak was in fact legit.

April 1, 2013 – Depeche Mode have already treated fans to one stunning black-and-white performance of "Heaven," the sorrowful lead single off the synth-icons' just-released 13th studio album, Delta Machine. And now there is another. The English doom'n'gloomers appeared on Britain's The Jonathan Ross Show Saturday (March 30) for a restrained and brooding performance of the song, not unlike their recent set on Letterman. After more than 30 years in the black light, Depeche Mode know what the audience wants: sad-sex jams.The band also gave a 10-minute chat that touched on frontman Dave Gahan's drug use and the group's songwriting process. And don't miss the segment's opening montage, which highlights the band's dubious fashion choices over the past three decades.