May 16, 2012 – After releasing its lineup in drips and drabs over the past few months, Bonnaroo has now unveiled its full schedule. As Consequence of Sound points out, the festival has also added to its list of performers, with GZA, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Pelican, Sara Watkins, and the Dirty Guv'Nahs now among those making the trek to Tennessee June 7-10. GZA will be performing Liquid Swords in full backed by Grupo Fantasma. Of course, the arrival of the schedule now means it's time for Bonnaroo-goers to start plotting a course through the music-packed four-day event. Luckily, festival organizers appear to have done an exceptional job in limiting the number of tough decisions — surely there can't be that many people who love Major Lazer and Black Star equally, or Flying Lotus and Umphrey's Mcgee? — and keeping everything nicely staggered, so few sets conflict entirely.

May 16, 2012 – A new Yeasayer song has surfaced online, and it's not just any Yeasayer song. In fact, "Henrietta" — which We All Want Someone to Shout For reports was shipped on physical CD to fans on the Brooklyn psych rockers' mailing list — happens to be keyboardist-singer Chris Keating's personal favorite of the tracks from the band's upcoming third album. Or so Keating told SPIN last fall, explaining that the track was inspired by reading about Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose rare form of cancer gave her a posthumous role in major medical breakthroughs like the polio vaccine. As promised, the track is a "dubbed-out pseudo-science-fiction song," wringing drama out of the remarkable fact that Lacks' cells still continue to live on after her death.

May 16, 2012 – El-P's visit to Late Show With David Letterman last night could hardly have arrived at a more auspicious moment for the skronky New York hip-hop stalwart. The same day also saw the release of R.A.P. Music, the tremendously inspired new album by Atlanta rap veteran Killer Mike, which El-P produced. This coming Tuesday, the former Definitive Jux label head will issue his own first non-instrumental album in five years, Cancer for Cure, on Mississippi-based indie Fat Possum. "I feel like I've been given yet another chance to do what I love to do, and maybe I don't deserve it," El-P says in the latest issue of the Village Voice. "But this is a rebirth record for me." That born-again fervor came across in El-P's fiery performance of Cancer for Cure's "Stay Down," with Islands' Nick Diamonds on hand to reprise his vocals and synth work from the album track.

May 16, 2012 – It might be helpful to think about the gargantuan bass of the recent crew of dubstep-inclined U.S. festival ravers the way you might think about beer. In the early '90s, before the American craft brewery movement caught on in a big way, Keystone Light advertised itself as the antidote to something called "Bitter Beer Face." Two decades later, beer makers are used to boasting about their hoppy flavors, and Bassnectar's gritty new video hits with IPA-strength intensity — plus some effects-tweaked facial expressions that strongly resemble that beer-twisted visage. The visuals for "Ugly," from the California producer's (government name: Lorin Ashton) new Vava Voom, are as frenetic and no-holds-barred as the drum-crazed track itself.

May 15, 2012 – Rick Ross excels as an over-the-top embodiment of rap opulence, so much so that when he does underpin his action-flick bombast with nuanced emotions or clever wordplay, such small gestures can be easy to overlook.

May 15, 2012 – President Barack Obama isn't the only prominent figure whose views on gay marriage may have undergone an evolution. Jay-Z went on the record yesterday in support of Obama's recent announcement that he personally believes same-sex couples should be allowed to wed. The rapper's comments on gay rights come as polls have shown African-American Democrats are generally more skeptical of same-sex marriage than white Democrats are, and the remarks also stand in contrast with homophobia-tinged lyrics from earlier in Hova's career. "I've always thought [of] it as something that's still holding the country back," Jay-Z told CNN when asked about the lack of legal recognition for same-sex couples. "What people do in their own homes is their business ... It's no different than discriminating against blacks.

May 15, 2012 – Far from being necessarily opposed, technique and emotion tend to complement each other in pop music, the new video by British singer-songwriter Adam Bainbridge suggests, reinforcing a longstanding truth. If the biggest rap against Bainbridge's painstaking indie-dance debut World, You Need a Change of Mind is that it prioritizes smooth surfaces over idiosyncratic expression, then the charming, low-key video for "House," a sweetly sentimental standout from the album, highlights how that can be a false dichotomy. Beauty is truth, and vice versa, or whatever, and the kids, well, they're all right. In fact, the "House" video continues the process of demystification Kindness began in the project's previous videos.

May 14, 2012 – "Like Don Henley, but more psychedelic," Bear in Heaven singer-keyboardist Jon Philpot told SPIN several months ago, describing the Brooklyn electro-rockers' latest album, I Love You, It's Cool. The newest video from the record, for pulsating, "How Soon Is Now?"-like hypno-rocker "Sinful Nature," takes a movie released only a few months after Henley's multiplatinum smash The End of Innocence — namely, 1990's Julia Roberts-Richard Gere prostitute romance Pretty Woman — and makes it … more psychedelic. Directed by Yoonha Park, whose previous work includes visuals for Washed Out and Small Black, the video shows a CGI-tweaked couple reminiscent of Gere and Roberts' movie characters in all kinds of hallucinogenic settings. This pretty woman won't kiss you on the lips, but she might send you on a vision quest into the Sonoran desert.

May 14, 2012 – Ladies, leave your man at home. But if your man is R. Kelly, don't expect him just to stay in and wash his hair (in fact, if 2008 single "Hair Braider" is any indication, Kellz getting his hair done only raises the odds of infidelity). The self-proclaimed king of R&B's latest lithely funky, superbly summery '70s-soul throwback is "Feelin' Single," a lush yet tidily uncluttered track that's a bit like Off the Wall-era Michael Jackson doing a preemptive answer song to Destiny's Child's "Jumpin' Jumpin'." Except, of course, with the Pied Piper's own certain inimitable something. The premise is simple: The man left at home (or, to continue the Destiny's Child analogy, the woman left with her friends) has decided that as long as his partner is out enjoying the nightlife, he might as well, too — with sexy results.

May 14, 2012 – The Killers have opened up the intriguing possibility that their upcoming album could be influenced by halcyon '70s power pop. The Las Vegas pop-rockers covered archetypal power-poppers the Rapsberries' 1972 "Go All the Way" for the new Tim Burton-Johnny Depp movie Dark Shadows, and as Radio 104.5 was first to point out, the track has made its way online. For some reason the sound quality isn't great, but you can tell it's a relatively faithful rendition, although Brandon Flowers adds a little extra bombast as he channels Raspberries singer (and "All By Myself"/"Hungry Eyes" solo artist) Eric Carmen's Roy Orbison-style vibrato.