• Grimes Defends Tidal

    If you have paid attention to the music industry over the past few weeks, you would have seen the big hoopla about Jay Z's new music streaming service TIDAL. It has faced a wall of criticism from fans, artists and professional skeptics who question whether or not its message of "TIDAL For All" is actually meant to benefit every artist or just a few millionaire artists who were there to launch the product at the March 30 press conference. Today, Jay Z took the time to outline some TIDAL facts on Twitter, including saying that the company pays out 75 percent of its revenue to artists, writers and producers, higher than the 70 perfect that Spotify pays out in royalties, which largely lines the pockets of labels and distributors.

  • Lana Del Rey, Grimes Announce Summer Tour Dates

    Lana Del Rey has gotten herself some killer supporting acts for her forthcoming 2015 summer tour. After enlisting Courtney Love for select dates, today (April 1) indie electronic act Grimes has announced that she'll also be going on the road with the "Young and Beautiful" singer.

  • Bleachers, Grimes Team Up for New Song 'Entropy' on 'Girls' Season 4 [LISTEN]

    Wondering what that sweet new song at the end of last nights Girls was? Give the credit to none other than Bleachers and Grimes. In a move similar to St. Vincent's "Teenage Talk" last week, on Sunday night (March 15), fans of HBO's Girls got a first listen at a brand new song from Claire Boucher and Lena Dunham's boyfriend Jack Antonoff. Introducing, the poppy and beautiful new single "Entropy."

  • Grimes Shares New Song 'Christmas Song II Grinch' [WATCH]

    Multi-talented instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and film director Claire Elise Boucher, better known as Grimes, is getting into the holiday spirit. In a wacky new video she posted on her YouTube channel, the "Go" singer is joined by "step bro" Jay Worthy and their siblings to make an outrageous song about the Christmas holiday. Fit with axes, random clips flashing across the screen and grainy home-movie-style visuals, the video encompasses the spirit and sloppiness at the end of a holiday night with friends and family.

  • Grimes Explains Story of Stage Name: Claire Boucher Used MySpace for Help

    Grimes, aka Claire Boucher, took to Twitter recently to give fans the lowdown on how she got her name. Previously, the singer told journalists that the name was inspired by artist Ken Grimes and cartoon character Frank Grimes from "The Simpsons." Turns out the name actually originated as a misunderstanding on MySpace, "Consequence of Sound" notes. Here is how Grimes explains Grimes: "On myspace ur genre could be grime and u could have 3 genres so i was plural grime, b4 knowing what grime was," she tweeted. "I was originally too embarased of this story so i told journalists i was named after frank grimes, who is also very cool. Or wait, no i said i was named after someone else named grimes argh, -- see this is why you shouldnt lie to journalists." i was originally too embarased of this story so i told journalists i was named after frank grimes, who is also very cool — Clear Butcher (@Grimezsz) December 20, 2014 i was very please to discover that i actually loved grime music — Clear Butcher (@Grimezsz) December 20, 2014

  • Grimes Scraps Entire New Album, Claiming "It Sucked"

    In a new interview with The New York Times, Canadian synth-pop artist Grimes revealed that she has scrapped her entire new album and "started again" following the negative response that greeted her recent single "Go."
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