Spoon have revealed their first tour in support of the forthcoming album Lucifer on the Sofa, out February 11th on Matador Records. Hailed by Time magazine as “one of the greatest American rock bands,” Spoon will bring the pure rock n’ roll sounds of the highly anticipated new album to stages across the country.

This week on After School Radio on Apple Music Hits, Mark Hoppus welcomes Ted Lasso’s Brendan Hunt who discusses portraying Coach Beard, his sports fandom, and a few of his favorite songs. Plus, Mark highlights his Apple Music Get Up! Mix.

Listen to the episode anytime on-demand on Apple Music Hits at apple.co/_AfterSchool.  

Brendan Hunt on Being a Sports Fan…

Released in August 1971 just two months after it was recorded, Fillmore East - June 1971 was Frank Zappa and The Mothers’ masterstroke conceptual live album, a well-oiled and well-edited aural treatise chronicling the prurient feast and famine of a certain band’s somewhat salacious life on (and off) the road.

Breakthrough singer, songwriter and musician Joy Oladokun is featured on the latest episode of the acclaimed podcast “Song Exploder” discussing her song “look up.” Listen HERE.

Sugaray Rayford is readying the release of "Please Take My Hand" on January 14, 2022. It's the latest single off of In Too Deep, Rayford's new full-length, dropping March 4, 2022, via Forty Below Records.

AEG Presents has officially announced the Umphrey's Mcgee Peak Summer Colorado Run, which will include stops at Dillion Amphitheater, Red Rocks Amphitheater, and Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater.

FOG is a documentary short film directed by DreamWorks’s Michael Pedraza and written by James Mihaley with original music from Bob Weir, Joe Satriani, and Kevin De León. Skywalker Sound's Dennis Leonard is sound editor.  The film has been selected for the Sedona Film Festival and received the Directors Choice Award at the Thomas Edison Film Festival.

Noise Pop Festival is excited to announce an expanded music lineup as the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier independent music and arts festival returns for its 29th year on February 21-27, 2022. Festival badges are on sale now with individual concert tickets becoming available for purchase this coming Friday, January 14 at 10 a.m. PT at www.noisepopfest.com.

Carried by vibrantly soulful vocals, set to the definition of a finger-snapping groove, and anchored by a lyrical call for harmony, John Bickel’s “Calling on Sunshine” is a stunning burst of perseverant joy.

This is where it all began for the quartet dubbed “The American Led Zeppelin” - on a 1970 bill that also featured the likes of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Grateful Dead and Steve Miller Band. Vocalist Rusty Day, guitarist Jim McCarty, bassist Tim Bogert, and drummer Carmine Appice, collectively known as Cactus, made their auspicious debut in their very first public performance that night. Fortunately, this stunning and historic show was captured on tape and has now been unearthed from the archives and released on all formats!