Stereogum — Often, if a band refuses to license their song for a commercial or if the ad agency in charge of making the commercial just doesn’t want to pay for it, they’ll hire someone else to record a cheap soundalike version they can use instead. Unfortuna... more info

TMZ — Katt Williams has so much game it looks like he's getting back his chick Hazel-E ... even though his legal troubles got a gun pulled on her. We got the exes coming out of The Serving Spoon in Inglewood together, and Hazel immediately… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Watch Britt and Alex play a new song and some covers, Continue reading… more info

Rolling Stone — Spoon's Britt Daniel and Alex Fischel paid tribute to Prince and David Bowie during an acoustic set at Mexico City's Festival Marvin. The musicians also debuted a new Spoon song. For their Prince tribute, the Spoon bandmates chose a more obscur... more info

Consequence of Sound — Britt Daniel and Alex Fischel played an acoustic set at Mexico's Festival Marvin. more info

NME — Mexico City show marked the band’s first gig this year more info

Stereogum — Spoon frontman Britt Daniel and keyboardist Alex Fischel performed live for the first time in six months over the weekend, playing a stripped-down set at Mexico City’s Festival Marvin. In addition paying tribute to the late Prince and David Bowie w... more info

Powerpopulist — This was going to be a simple followup to yesterday's Austin Town Hall archives post (and basically still is), but we thought we'd include a couple of recent finds as well, while we're at it. Hope that's okay with youse. The... more info

Stereogum — Deerhunter played a show at the Mohawk in Austin a couple of weeks ago, on 4/14. Britt Daniel of hometown heroes Spoon happened to stop by, and it just so happened to be his birthday. Bradford Cox and the rest of Deerhunter led the crowd in singing a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Atlanta, GA trio Omni features guitarist Frankie Broyles (ex-Deerhunter), and bassist/vocalist Philip Frobos and drummer Billy Mitchell both of whom are formerly of Carnivores. The band's spiky, minimalistic sound owes more than a little to Wire... more info