Dinosaur Jr. design

Foo Fighters, Radiohead art director Stanley Donwood, Phoebe Bridgers, Khruangbin, Dinosaur Jr, Enrique Iglesias, LCD Soundsystem, and Neko Case and more artists have contributed designs to a series of one-of-a-kind folding bicycles from British company Brompton, according to Cycling Weekly. The bikes will be auctioned to raise funds for Live Nation’s Crew Nation, a global relief fund for live music workers. The auction begins May 28 and will run until June 12.

“Borders are a dreadful invention of mankind, and so we are just putting up another one, and I think it’s a dreadful retrograde step” - Queen's drummer Roger Taylor said about consequences Brexit will have on UK touring bands, NME reports. His band is OK, he said - "we can fall back on our songwriting and our publishing", it's the road crew that are suffering - "it’s a daily, weekly job for them and so it’s made it really hard for our industry, very hard indeed”. Guardian reports about road crews for some of the biggest bands in music that are being forced into homelessness and turning to food banks to survive during the pandemic.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have announced a charity prize draw with the goal of raising £200,000 to support their tour crew. They've collected over 100 prizes, including The Bad Seeds' own signed instruments, a limited edition art print of Nick Cave, deluxe album copies, show tickets, gift vouchers, and much more. To participate in the draw, fans can purchase tickets until March 12. Winning tickets will be drawn at random, and each winning ticket will grant the winner a random lot out of the 100+ prizes. There's also an option to donate without entering the prize draw. They have already collected over £78,000.

Super-group Kings of Quarantine, featuring members of Limp Bizkit, 311, Mastodon, Filter, The Used, Veruca Salt, and In Flames, teamed up to perform a socially-distant cover of Jane's Addiction's 'Mountain Song'. The project is in collaboration with the Roadie Relief effort, in hopes to raise awareness for touring industry workers whose jobs have been affected by the pandemic. Buy the song on Bandcamp.

Phoebe Bridgers with her Yeti

Phoebe Bridgers, Fleet Foxes, Billie Eilish, Beastie Boys, Wilco, Brittany Howard, Tenacious D, Mavis Staples, My Morning Jacket, Jon Batiste, and the Decemberists are among artists who created customized Yeti coolers for an auction benefitting the Crew Nation relief fund. The cooler company will make its own donation matching all proceeds up to $100,000, Rolling Stone reports. Handsomely decorated coolers are mostly stuffed with merch. The price range is $250 to $3,333.

Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher, Anthrax bassist Frank Bello, Korn drummer Ray Luzier, Men Without Hats keyboardist Ivan Doroschuk, and others have joined forces to cover Faith No More's 'We Care a Lot'. The collaboration was organized by Slaves on Dope members Jason Rockman and Kevin Jardine, who contribute vocals and guitar. Refused frontman Dennis Lyxzén handles the first verse, while other vocalists include Darryl “DMC” McDaniels of Run-DMC, Richard Patrick of Filter, Walter Schreifels of Quicksand, Kevin Sharp of Brutal Truth, rapper Esoteric of Czarface, and Raine Maida of Our Lady Peace. The performance was organized to support the Roadie Relief effort, benefitting concert crew members who have been out of work in the midst of the pandemic - buy the song via Bandcamp.