Kevin Bronson on March 14th, 2019

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Making noise on our newswire:

■ Drama, the Chicago duo of Via Rosa and Na’el Shehade, and L.A. popster Harriet Brown will perform at the April installment of First Fridays at the Natural History Museum. “Forces of Nature” is the series’ theme this year, and the April date features the talk “The Flames in Our Future.” Tickets.

■ Sky Daniels, the general manager/program director at FM outlet KCSN, is retiring, Variety reports. Daniels joined the Cal State Northridge-based station in 2011 and oversaw its merger with Mission Viejo’s KSBR in 2017 that synchronized programming on both stations’ 88.5 FM signal. A successor has not been named. [Editor’s note: 88.5 FM airs the weekly L.A. Buzz Bands Show on Sunday evenings.]

■ Hawthorne pop phenom Cuco has signed a huge deal with Interscope Records, Billboard reports.

■ U.K. trip-hop legends Massive Attack, who postponed their “Nezzanine” U.S. tour “due to illness,” have rescheduled three March dates in L.A. They previously were scheduled to play the Palladium on March 29-31. Tickets for those dates will now be good for the following dates: Sept. 3 (March 29), Sept. 4 (March 30) and Sept. 5 (March 31).

■ Ibibio Sound Machine, the U.K.-Nigerian group whose new album “Doko Mien” comes out next week on Merge, have been forced to postpone their upcoming U.S. dates as well, including a March 28 show at the Teragram Ballroom. Visa problems were the culprit, the band said via Twitter.

■ After two albums and an EP over five years, PAPA is no more. “As you may have guessed by now, PAPA has sailed off into the sunset. We just want to thank every single person who was part of this truly wild journey with us,” the singing-drumming frontman Darren Weiss wrote in a social media post. Weiss, who’s playing in tonight’s Wires on Fire reunion show, might have something new up his sleeve, though, so stand by.