To celebrate their marriage on March 20, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their first Bed-In for Peace 44 years ago. Part Vietnam protest, part honeymoon, the in-bed event drew such media attention that they staged a second one in Montreal two months later.

For electronic supergroup Atoms For Peace’s new video, “Ingenue,” Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke (AFP vocalist) delves into contemporary dance, pairing with dancer Fukiko Takase. Like many a Yorke dance move, this one, too, is now available in GIF form.

Artist Dinos Chapman is “terrified” how Luftbobler, his debut album of “experimental ambient electronic noise,” will be received. “I can’t hide behind my brother. Jake and I do this thing where I can blame it on him or he can blame it on me. This is just me.”

“Staff Benda Bilili, at least as we have known and loved them for the past few years, are no more.” Andy Morgan reports what happened to the Congolese group of street musicians who rose to international stardom before finances and suspicion effectively did them in.

Prolific jazz/R&B trumpeter Donald Byrd has passed away at age 80. After a career-launching stint with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Byrd went on to record more than 40 solo albums, in addition to sideman gigs with the likes of Monk, Coltrane, and Hancock.

Cynthia Hopkins, whose Walker-co-comissioned This Clement World opens at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York Tuesday, offers a song from the music-theater piece—a climate-crisis reworking of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.”

Immigrant women are having fewer children, Barbara Crossette, author of two UN population reports, tells Laurie Anderson. “It shows that if you just let women from the developing world have the same rights—or, rather, access—that we have, they make smart decisions.”

Sax player Colin Stetson (Sound Horizon 2012) drops a new LP, New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light, Apr. 30. Mixed by Ben Frost (who plays a Walker-copresented gig in St. Paul next week), it features four tracks with vocals by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver).