[Q] Get currently playing artist from Play Music?

Is there a way to get the name of the artist that is playing in Play Music to Tasker?

I know that the GoneMad Music Player supports %MARTIST out to Tasker, but it cannot stream from my Google Music account.

Perhaps this isn't even the best way to accomplish what I'm trying; what I want is to display the artist's name and the track name when music is playing, and to hide all text when it is not. I want to do this on the desktop, as well as on the lock screen.

What I've been able to do so far is to have Tasker send the variable %MTRACK to a variable named %CURRENT_TRACK because when the music stops or is paused, %MTRACK does not update. Tasker checks to make sure that music is still playing, and if not it sets %CURRENT_TRACK to empty. Minimalistic Text displays this, and is updated by Tasker every time %CURRENT_TRACK is changed. I would like to replicate this behaviour with the artist name as well.

Ideally the music controls would also disappear, but that I'm sure I can accomplish if I bang around in UCCW for long enough.

Phantom Music Control works on the lockscreen, but the widget doesn't disappear when running on the desktop for me.