• Grimes Unveils 'Art Angels' Tracklist: "Flesh Without Blood/Life In The Vivid Dream" Video

    Grimes, born Claire Boucher, has unveiled the tracklist and release date for her new album Art Angels. The album comes in at 14 tracks total and will be released next week on Nov. 6. To go along with the announcement, the Visions singer has unveiled a wonky joint music video for two songs from the album "Flesh without Blood" and "Life in the Vivid Dream."

  • Grimes Announces 'The Rhinestone Cowgirl Tour,' Tentative Album Release Date

    Grimes has been promising a new album for quite some time now, making music, scrapping it and then making more. More concrete details have started to emerge in numerous interviews recently, which is a sign itself that she is doing press in anticipation of something, for her upcoming, still untitled fourth album. In addition to the Visions follow up, the "Oblivion" singer has announced The Rhinestone Cowgirl Tour, which will take the artist across North America on a month-long tour during October and November.

  • Grimes' Claire Boucher Talks New Album, "Diss Tracks" and Scolds the Media

    Grimes' Claire Boucher, Recent covergirl for Fader and electro sensation, plans to release the follow up to 2012's 'Visions' in October. The track listing to Boucher's forthcoming LP is set to include "a lot of diss tracks" including a song "about male producers," which, according to her recent profile for Fader, was inspired by "a guy who acts like he knows everything and then comes back crawling on his knees, which has happened to me so many times."

  • Grimes Announces 'Visions' Follow-Up, Year After Scrapping More Pop Disc

    Alt-pop, alt-whatever musician Grimes has once again announced a release date for her new album, although we're inclined to believe it when we see it. The performer stated that her follow-up to 2012's Visions would be released during 2014...but then she axed the entire album after deciding that it came across as too commercial. The new album, which doesn't have a title as of yet, was confirmed for October 2015 by the performer this weekend.

  • Grimes Defends Tidal: "This Kind Of Thing Is So Important, Especially For Indie Music"

    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.

  • 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 Festive 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 the Story Behind Her Stage Name: Claire Boucher Used MySpace to 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, 2014i was very please to discover that i actually loved grime music — Clear Butcher (@Grimezsz) December 20, 2014
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