Wetherspoons has banned customers from playing music or videos out loud on phones, tablets or other devices, and from taking calls on speakerphone, across all 792 of its pubs. New signage will ask customers to switch devices to silent or use earphones, with the chain saying such noise has become an “increasing problem” in recent…

Anderson .Paak and Cordae have announced a joint album, Heavy Is the Crown, due out on 23 October via Apeshit/Mass Appeal/Empire. The pair have a long-standing creative partnership, having first collaborated on “RNP” from Cordae’s 2019 debut The Lost Boy, and have worked together frequently since; the new record marks their first full-length collaboration together.…

Vancouver musicians Hannah Georgas (of Broken Social Scene) and Lyn Heinemann have announced So Faint, a new collaborative project, with their debut album due out this autumn. The pair unveiled the lead single “Fully Slow,” an earworm exploring the ache of unrequited longing, alongside a music video co-directed by Georgas and Mack Calistan. The release…