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Huddled around a phone camera, Aylen Reynoso, Diamela Spina, and Julia Percowicz of Argentinian trio TRÍADA look like they’re skipping school. At 19, they’re not far removed from the Buenos Aires classrooms where they met and started performing together. When they say “hi” in unison, it already sounds like harmony.

Bruce Springteen’s tender cover of “A Rainy Night in Soho” serves as the lead single from a massive tribute album to late Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, 20th Century Paddy — The Songs of Shane MacGowan. The project will be released Nov. 13 through Rubyworks and was spearheaded by MacGowan’s widow, Victory Mary Clarke. The musician died at the age of 65 in 2023 after years of poor health.

Billie Eilish is in talks to make her feature film debut in an adaptation of Sylvia Path’s beloved 1963 novel The Bell Jar, according to industry newsletter InSneider. The screenplay is being written by onetime actress Sarah Polley, who won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for the script to 2022’s Women Talking. Per the report, The Bell Jar will be produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and StudioCanal, with distribution from Focus Features.

Billie Eilish is in talks to make her feature film debut in an adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s beloved 1963 novel The Bell Jar, according to industry newsletter InSneider. The screenplay is being written by onetime actress Sarah Polley, who won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for the script to 2022’s Women Talking. Per the report, The Bell Jar will be produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and StudioCanal, with distribution from Focus Features.

After a series of teases earlier this week, Kacey Musgraves has unveiled her new single, “Dry Spell,” in tandem with the announcement of her sixth studio album, Middle of Nowhere. The 13-track effort will be released May 1 by Lost Highway and boasts the production talents of longtime collaborators Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk. A video for “Dry Spell” co-directed by Musgraves and Hannah Lux Davis can be seen below. The artist previously put up billboards in several cities that read “dry spell?

Violet Grohl’s debut solo album has been christened Be Sweet to Me and will be released May 29 by Auroura Records/Republic. The latest preview track from it, “595,” is out today (March 11) accompanied with a video directed by Nikki Milan Houston. The song was inspired by a vintage t-shirt Grohl bought from Etsy that advertises a pay-by-the-minute phone sex line.

Turnstile vocalist Brandon Yates, Rainer Maria frontwoman Caithlin De Marrais and Wisp’s Natalie R. Lu make guest appearances on American Football’s highly anticipated LP4, which will be released May 1 on Polyvinyl Records. The project is available for pre-order in a variety of physical formats, including vinyl, CD and cassette. Yates sings on “No Feeling”; his contribution was recorded the day after the band casually asked if he’d like to stop by producer Sonny DiPerri’s L.A. studio.

Animal Collective members Dave Portner (Avey Tare) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) have emerged with a new instrumental duo project dubbed Croz Boyce and will release their self-titled debut on May 8 through longtime label Domino. The nine-track effort is led by the track “Hanging Out With a Blueberry Pop,” which is accompanied with a beguiling underwater video directed by explorer Joseph Ricketts. Fellow Animal Collective member Josh Dibb (Deakin) contributed to the album’s mixing.

Holed up somewhere on Mulholland Drive, high above the Hollywood Bowl, Nick Hexum, Doug “SA” Martinez, Tim Mahoney, Aaron “P-Nut” Willis, and Chad Sexton—collectively known as 311—laid the demo for “Down,” the third single from the band’s 1996 self-titled album. They could have never predicted it would be the song to launch them into another orbit. Propelled by MTV, which designated “Down” a “Buzz Clip,” the track blew up and landed at No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart.

For Iranians, cassette tapes have long been conduits of communication and change. An underground network of tapes carried Ayatollah Khomeini’s messages, fueling the revolution that toppled the previous government. In the pre-internet years of the Islamic Republic, another covert cassette circuit emerged, distributing bootlegged Western albums.