NEWS: Gaslight Anthem Cover Bon Iver, Death Grips Dropped by Epic & More

Posted on Nov 1st 2012 5:00PM by Spinner
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Gaslight Anthem have softened up their rough and tumble exterior and covered Bon Iver's "Skinny Love" for Black Friday Record Store Day. Listen to it here. [Some Kind of Awesome]

Death Grips got pissed off by their label, Epic, then pissed off the label by leaking their own album, and the label was pissed enough to drop them. [Noisey]

Pitchfork is live streaming their Paris-based festival right now. Check out How to Dress Well, Japandroids, DIIV and many others rock the French capital. [Pitchfork]

Brian Epstein, otherwise known as the fifth Beatle, is getting the biopic treatment in two upcoming films. And holy crap, one of them nabbed Benedict Cumberbatch. [New York Times]

Well it looks like Pussy Riot just got their biggest endorsement yet: Jesus H. Christ. [SPIN]

Thom Yorke's other band, Atoms for Peace, have release a new tune, "What the Eyeballs Did." Listen to it right here. [The Stool Pigeon]

Check out Feist's super spooky "Graveyard" video just in time the Day of the Dead. [Pretty Much Amazing]

Ben Gibbard tries to be "hard" in his hilarious new video "Teardrop Windows" from director Tom Scharpling. [A.V. Club]

Andrew Bird's beautiful tune "Three White Horses" gets a swell accompanying video. [Consequence of Sound]

And finally, Vampire Weekend debuted their newest tune "Unbelievers" on "Kimmel" last night, whilst dressed as dead dudes. Video via Diffuser.

Watch Vampire Weekend Perform "Unbelivers" on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"