March 6, 2012 – It's a good thing Radiohead added an East Coast leg to their North American tour yesterday. At the rate the British art-rock luminaries keep debuting new songs, they're going to need every one of those extra 11 shows. Kicking off the tour late last month in Miami, Radiohead already showcased two previously unreleased tunes, the harmony-haunted anti-"messing me around" brooder "Identikit" and the strummy rocker "Cut a Hole." As Rock It Out! Blog observes, the full band performed another new song for the first time last night in Dallas, "Skirting on the Surface." Thom Yorke previously performed "Skirting on the Surface" as a piano ballad while on a 2009 tour with his star-studded Atoms for Peace side project. Last night, though, he took to an acoustic guitar, as the band fleshed out the midtempo song into one of Radiohead's signature moody, enigmatic compositions.

March 5, 2012 – "It's a song about being in a relationship where one of the people is holding something back." That's the Big Pink's Milo Cordell, talking to SPIN about "Give It Up" in our track-by-track guide to the London pop duo's Future This, the recently released follow-up to 2009's massive-sounding A Brief History of Love. The buoyant midtempo electro-rocker now has trippy, kaleidoscopic visuals to go with its chopped-up strings, thunderous bass groove, and blunted horns. "Give it up for me," a female vocalist repeats toward the end of the song, as Robbie Furze pleads, "It doesn't have to be so hard." No harder than a click, anyway: Watch the video from VEVO via Stereogum.

March 5, 2012 – 4evaNaDay has finally arrived. After multiple delays, Big K.R.I.T.'s hotly awaited follow-up to last year's Return of 4eva mixtape is out now. As the credits show, the keenly self-aware Mississippi rapper arranged and produced all tracks himself, and there are no guest appearances, aside from guitar on "Me and My Old School" and "saxophone" on "Wake Up." It's an audacious move, and K.R.I.T. is definitely someone we'd expect to pull it off. Download 4evaNaDay right here. If you don't want to take forever to download that, K.R.I.T. already unveiled the smoothly grooving "Boobie Miles," which you can listen to below. As All Hip Hop points out, the rapper's Def Jam debut, Live From the Underground, is penciled in for a June release.

March 5, 2012 – Sometimes sprawl can be a good thing. Arcade Fire will put out a limited-edition Record Store Day 12" featuring extended remixes of a couple of tracks from The Suburbs, Merge Records has announced (via Pitchfork). Although Record Store Day is April 21 this year, the band's remixes of "Sprawl II" and "Ready to Start" with producer Damian Taylor can be heard online below. You know, in case someone else scoops up all the copies at your local independent record store next month. The "Sprawl II" remix originally appeared in the song's "interactive" video late last year. A more, yes, sprawling affair, it's a fine supplement to the original, bringing out its slow-disco groove a bit more fully.

March 5, 2012 – In November 2010, Jimmy Fallon and Bruce Springsteen covered Willow Smith's neck-snapping "Whip My Hair," with Fallon impersonating Neil Young and Springsteen impersonating, well, himself. Fallon has since dusted off his pitch-perfect Neil impression for a Miley Cyrus cover with the rest of Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, and just last month Fallon posed as Eddie Vedder for a Pearl Jam-style tribute to the NBA phenomenon known as Jeremy Lin.

March 5, 2012 – All bets are now officially off when it comes to the style of Jack White's solo album, Blunderbuss, which drops on April 24 via Third Man/Columbia. The stringy-haired White Stripes frontman performed two songs on Saturday Night Live this weekend, each backed by separate single-gender bands, and each representing a different facet of White's sound. Although the SNL stage has cast a few artists in an unflattering light in recent years, White obliterated any possible technical issues through sheer force of performance. When White unveiled groovy new song "Love Interruption" on January 30, the unexpectedly laid-back tune suggested his solo album might, in keeping with his proper-name billing, be a relatively gentle, singer-songwriter type of record.

March 2, 2012 – Nick Lowe hasn't made a video for 18 years, so it stands to reason he'd want to make this one count. Director Scott Jacobson, who has worked on videos for the National, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, and Superchunk, sets a wry, goofy tone for "Sensitive Man," a '50s-syle rocker from the longtime U.K. pop outsider's rewarding 2011 victory lap The Old Magic. Comedian/podcaster Marc Maron and Time and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! half Tim Heidecker star, while Wilco and Robyn Hitchcock make brief, knowing appearances (as does Maria Thayer from Strangers With Candy). "That's not sensitive, it's self-conscious," quips the video's lone female character. "I'm no dinky doo," Lowe crows. Psychedelic self-help bromance awaits. (Via NPR)

March 2, 2012 – Steven Patrick Morrissey and Elizabeth "Lizzy" Grant are both singer-songwriters with a clear love of cinema and a distaste for the bland, the bourgeois, and the unglamorous. As Buzzfeed points out, these two dedicated followers of fashion meet at last in a new track by mash-up artist Reborn Identity. "This Charming Video Game" sets Moz's vocal from the Smiths' slyly salacious indie-pop bicycle-ride classic atop the swooning instrumental from Lana Del Rey's own Hollywood-grandiose psycho-sexual ballad, and it's an astonishingly clever match. Sure, here and there we think we pick up on a note that doesn't mesh quite perfectly, but we're too distracted by the similarly mashed-up Smiths-Lana video to say for sure. "I would go out tonight, but I haven't got a stitch to wear" — classic LDR! Don't miss SPIN's Deconstructing Lana Del Rey feature and Born to Die review.

March 2, 2012 – There's still no cure for technological alienation, but Grandaddy, at least, has come back to life. The wispy-voiced space poppers from Modesto, California., have become the latest band to reunite in reunion-heavy 2012. The group, which broke up in 2006 after modestly resigned guitars-and-synths sigh Just Like the Fambly Cat, will be playing "a limited run of shows this year," announced England's End of the Road Festival. So far, Grandaddy's only officially scheduled show is a September 2 headlining set at End of the Road, but keep your eyes peeled for further announcements. The recent deluxe edition of the band's 2000 pinnacle The Sophtware Slump was one of SPIN's 10 best reissues of 2011. It's encouraging to see the group that once sang "I'm OK With My Decay" back out of mothballs and hitting the road. Not that Grandaddy's members have been silent in the intervening years.

March 2, 2012 – "Our next guest is one of the most popular rappers in the world," Jimmy Kimmell announced last night on his ABC show. And then he welcomed to the stage a purple-shirted audience member wearing another audience member's baseball cap and, of course, a dreadlock wig. Lil Wayne, Kimmell informed audience members a few moments earlier, hadn't shown up for his interview. Good thing the fake Lil Wayne was game for a lively conversation of his own. Turns out Weezy was actually in prison for speeding, hails originally from New York, and is a huge, huge fan of hockey. "How often do you wash your hair?" Kimmel asks. "Did Justin [Bieber] visit you in prison?" Watch the non-interview below, while hoping real Weezy is safe out there, and that false Weezy gets some kind of acting bit part out of this.