GRiZ has announced a new NFT collection called SEROTONIN BOOST, a collaboration with visual artist Kitasavi.

Four out of the six of these pieces are paired with brand new, never-before-heard music from GRiZ. These clips show off a few of the different musical dimensions of GRiZ, with snippets featuring chiill house, sunset sax vibes, and groovy dubstep. Some of these music-paired NFTs are more rare than others, with a fixed amount of editions being minted. The cheapest one, however, is $1, so almost anyone can participate in this drop.

This is GRiZ’s introduction to the NFT space, and we’re stoked to see him do something with original music involved!

To view the SEROTONIN BOOST collection, you can follow this link here to Foundation. Below you can check out a couple of the stills (without music) that are also part of the drop.

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Flight Of The Conchords comedian Bret McKenzie has revealed that he worked on the upcoming Simpsons episode that sends up The Smiths. The episode, titled Panic On The Streets of Springfield, will reportedly see Lisa get a new imaginary friend – a depressed indie singer from 1980s Britain.

While the show has stopped short of getting Morrissey onboard to voice the character, they will instead be voiced by another prolific British star – Benedict Cumberbatch.

Taking to social media earlier this evening (April 18), McKenzie revealed that he “wrote some 80’s pop songs” for the episode alongside comedy writer Tim Long.

“During the madness of 2020 I worked very remotely on an episode of The Simpsons,” McKenzie wrote on the official Facebook page of Flight Of The Conchords.

“I wrote some 80’s pop songs with my friend Tim Long, woke up at 3am in New Zealand to record the sultry crooning of Benedict Cumberbatch in London and zoomed a few sweet harmonies in LA with Yeardley Smith.”

He added: “It airs in the States on Sunday night (4/18). And hopefully everywhere else soon. Check it out!”

While it marks the first time that The Smiths have been sent up in the show, Morrissey is said to have previously turned down an appearance in Season 15 episode ‘The Regina Monologues’.

The episode saw The Simpsons clan heading to Britain, and featured guest appearances from then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.

Last week, members of the cast and crew of The Simpsons explained how cult segment ‘Steamed Hams’ nearly launched a spinoff series.

Reflecting on 25 years since the episode during which the segment aired, ’22 Short Films About Springfield’ first premiered, actor Hank Azaria and co-showrunners Al Jean, Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein recalled initial plans in a recent interview.

Meanwhile, The Simpsons voice actor Hank Azaria has apologised for his longtime portrayal of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on the series, while also acknowledging the show’s participation in “structural racism”.

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Chvrches have announced they will be premiering their new single ‘He Said She Said’ tomorrow evening (April 19).

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The synth-pop trio – comprised of Lauren Mayberry, Martin Doherty and Iain Cook – are due to release their fourth studio album sometime this year, having written and recorded it over the course of the coronavirus pandemic.

Today (April 18), the band took to social media to announce their first new music since 2019’s ‘Here With Me’, their collaboration with Marshmello, and ‘Death Stranding’, taken from the soundtrack for video game Death Stranding: Timefall.

Titled ‘He Said She Said’, the new track will be premiered on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show tomorrow night at 6:10pm.

“The end is near,” the band wrote on Instagram. “Tune in to @anniemacmanus on @bbcradio1 tomorrow from 10:10am PT / 1:10pm ET / 6:10pm BST for the premiere of ‘He Said She Said’.”

Last week, the band teased new music with a series of cryptic posts. They began posting screenshots on Instagram displaying iPhone-style notifications, which included the message “It’s all in your head” above the options “Trust” and “Don’t Trust”.

Chvrches then shared a grainy video of frontwoman Mayberry applying makeup in a mirror. The singer, now sporting blonde hair, screams in split-second shots before smudging lipstick across her face.

The clip is soundtracked by distressed, filtered audio that sounds like it’s being played backwards. “Video Diary 001: I feel like I’m losing my mind,” the post’s caption read.

In December, Mayberry offered fans some hints at what to expect from Chvrches’ next record, which will follow 2018’s ‘Love Is Dead’.

She said the new album had “definitely got the Chvrches DNA” but that the songs featured on it couldn’t “slot into any of the first three records”.

Last September, the singer explained that the band would be following a “theme” on their next full-length. “For me, it’s been interesting to look at the records and see the progression of the storytelling, for lack of a less wanky word,” she said.

“I feel like it’s about the marriage between the stuff that’s purely personal, and the stuff that’s more imagery, and narrative [based]. We have a pretty specific theme in mind for the whole thing, so yeah, I feel like it’ll be a marriage of those things.”

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