April 13, 2012 – M.I.A. has written the original music for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's new talk show. A spokesman for WikiLeaks told Forbes.com the British-Sri Lankan hip-hop provocateur got together with Assange in London, where he has been under house arrest for the past year and a half. Titled The World Tomorrow, the weekly show is set to premiere on the news network Russia Today this Tuesday, when it will also go up online. Assange has finished filming 12 episodes, each of which will consist of an interview edited down to 26 minutes apiece. In an announcement, WikiLeaks says the interview subjects comprise "an eclectic range of guests, who are stamping their mark on the future: politicians, revolutionaries, intellectuals, artists and visionaries." Expect a "frank and irreverent tone." There's no mention of whether M.I.A.

April 13, 2012 – Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have announced a new batch of tour dates, and they've posted a rousing live video that serves as a reminder to pick up those tickets, already. Hey, there's a reason Springsteen and the E Street Band made our Best of SXSW 2012 list. These guys could be big someday! The video features a gruff, passionate live rendition of politicized stomper "Death to My Hometown," from the New Jersey legend's latest album, Wrecking Ball. The E Street band's performance does away with some of the tin-whistle American Revolution-era affectations of the album version and puts more muscle behind the song's furiously of-the-moment message: "Send the robber barons straight to hell," the Boss bellows coldly.

April 13, 2012 – What is it with artists and unhealthy but awesome food? Last night on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the Roots' ?uestlove pitted his fried-chicken recipe against the deliciousness served up by a professional New York restaurateur. And, as NME points out, the Black Keys will be on the Travel Channel on Monday scarfing barbecue for celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. A clip from the April 16 show finds the Akron, Ohio, duo dining at Kansas City's Woodyard Bar-B-Que with Bourdain, whom they pick up in the van from the cover of latest album El Camino. The unassuming rockers will command a big stage at Coachella this weekend, but here they reflect on bad Chinese food and "unidentifiable" burger patties from their years of $5-a-day food budgets.

April 13, 2012 – When it rains, it pours, and late-night TV hosted a surfeit of noteworthy performers last night. Feist visited Tonight Show With Jay Leno, the Shins stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Alabama Shakes rocked Late Show With David Letterman, and Arctic Monkeys conquered Conan. Oh, what's the matter, Jimmy Fallon? All you could come up remotely music-related with was a hilarious #FriedChickenBattle between the Roots' ?uestlove and David Chang, the chef behind New York's Momofuku restaurants? OK, well played, Fallon. Well played. First, Feist (via the Audio Perv). The singer-songwriter appeared on Leno backed by anything but the usual singer-songwriter setup.

April 12, 2012 – Charli XCX's SoundCloud promises a "boy version" of this mix soon, but who needs it? The London electro-soul dynamo, one of SPIN's Best New Artists for March 2012, strings together enough female-sung perfection for a million friendship bracelet in her Supergirls Superlove mix. From Cyndi Lauper to Kate Bush, by way of Azealia Banks, Britney Spears (featuring backing vocals from Robyn, if you listen closely), and Blondie, the newly posted set — titled Supergirls

April 12, 2012 – B.o.B broke through as a mixtape rapper with an unlikely coffeehouse-troubadour streak, and his first big commercial successes also tended to cross genre (and racial) boundaries. The latest track to surface from Bobby Ray's May 1 album Strange Clouds follows his smash-hit collaborations with Bruno Mars, Paramore's Hayley Williams, and Weezer's Rivers Cuomo by tapping perhaps his unlikeliest musical partner yet, country-pop superstar Taylor Swift. It's almost like two songs in one, jumping between Swift's earnestly sung, acoustic-plucking hook and B.o.B.'s electronics-backed rap verses, with soporific strings and Bobby's own vocals providing the glue between them. Though the improvements in Swift's voice over the years have been dramatic, most obviously on Civil Wars team-up "Safe & Sound," what truly sets her apart is her gift for storytelling, and that's nowhere to be found here.

April 12, 2012 – Yuck will roll into Coachella this weekend with one more reason to pick their Friday afternoon set over stiff competition from Kendrick Lamar and EMA. "Chew," which the U.K. indie rockers posted online today, is a summery, sweetly distorted midtempo rocker that should sound great in the open air. The deeply embedded hooks and '90s-inclined fuzz that helped make Yuck's self-titled debut such an enduring, endearing listen are here, for sure, but the band adds My Bloody Valentine-style pitch-bending guitar and a vague but evocative refrain: "We chew it together," singer/guitarist Daniel Blumberg intones through the lens-flaring glow.

April 12, 2012 – Lil Wayne's ongoing progression from gangsta-rap boy band member to "the best rapper alive" to cartoonish, skateboard-toting pop star has taken its latest turn. MTV reports that Weezy F. Baby is working on a new album titled Devol, which we're supposed to pronounce "devil." Tunechi told MTV, "That's 'loved' spelled backwards, and it's my version of love songs." Though it's probably unfortunate for Weezy that Sonic Youth already claimed Evol (and "Devo" belongs to, well, Devo), hip-hop heads don't need to fear that the rapper-eater has turned into Barry Manilow. "What I mean by my version of love songs is meaning they're not saying, 'I love you,' " he told MTV. "It's all material I did when I was locked up." If we know Weezy, that statement would appear to suggest the songs are probably graphically sexual in nature, and not only due to the conjugal limitations of imprisonment.

April 12, 2012 – Suspense about the potential for a "Regulate" reunion during Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's scheduled performance at Coachella on Sunday night is mounting. Only hours after Warren G removed a post on his website announcing that the Regulator, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, and Wiz Khalifa would be joining Dre and Snoop onstage, replacing it with a non-denial denial, comes a report that the late Nate Dogg will also be joining the proceedings. The Long Beach, California rapper-singer, who died last year at 41, will be appearing onstage via hologram, unnamed sources tell TMZ. Evidently, Dre hated the idea of performing without the smooth-voiced singer whose collaborations with the rap mogul date back to The Chronic, so he's adapting hologram technology that Mariah Carey used in Europe last year to virtually resurrect his old pal.

April 12, 2012 – Yesterday, a new recording of Scarlett Johansson singing Gershwin standard "Summertime" backed by ominous electronics courtesy of Massive Attack's 3D hit the web. But the track, produced by 3D in conjunction with the DFA's Tim Goldsworthy and set for the soundtrack of Mexican director-writer Everardo Valerio Gout's upcoming thriller Days of Grace, is only one of many leftfield musical combinations for the husky-voiced actress-singer. Although we'll confess to being tempted to try to find room in the headline for a "Hoarse Whisperer" joke, Johansson's moonlighting efforts can be far above the (admittedly low) standards for actors-ternt-sangas. Because we at SPIN are here to help, we've ranked her moonlighting efforts for you below, from unsurprisingly-execrable-like-"Party All the Time" to the surprisingly-good-like-Steve-Martin-doing-bluegrass. 10.