Spoon have a new album coming sometime in the nearby, undefined future, and they’ve promised something called “R.I.P.” one week from today, though we don’t know what that is. This past weekend, the band played Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival, and, as promised, they played an as-yet-untitled ...

Spoon were once a ’90s-era major-label cautionary tale, but they’ve found a steady home at Merge Records ever since 2000, where they’ve released five albums and gradually become indie stars. But now they’re trying out the major-label world again, sort of. Billboard reports that the bad has signed to Loma V...

We learned the lineup for the Philadelphia edition of Jay Z’s Made In America Festival — including headliners Kanye West and Kings Of Leon plus the National, Pharrell, Girl Talk, Spoon, Chromeo, J. Cole, Grimes, De La Soul, Danny Brown, YG, Holy Ghost!, and Young & Sick — earlier this afternoon. Now the fir...

It’s been four years (!) since Spoon’s last album, Transference, and while there’s no confirmation they’re releasing a new one in 2014, all signs point to “Yes.” They just dropped a video previewing a new song, “They Want My Soul,” to coincide with their first tour d...

In the Pixies’ video for “Magdalena,” we follow Nando Messias, a London-based performance artist, as she gets out of bed, sticks some dude for his sandwich, takes a shower in some rice, and stages a one-person egg-and-spoon race in an underground walkway. Yeah, I don’t get it either. Pixies gave us their s...