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Lil Yachty –“Shoot Out The Roof” Video
Lil Yachty has just dropped a vid for the shit-talking anthem "Shoot Out The Roof" from last summer's Summer Songs 2. Young Boat rocks all white everything against white backgrounds with paintball...
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Ciara Drops Lawsuit Against Future
Back in February of last year, Ciara sued Future for $15 million, and things got ugly. Future countersued a couple months later, and then dropped the countersuit a couple months after that. Ciara was...
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Fabric Reopens With Tougher Security
When reports surfaced last fall that the influential London nightclub Fabric would reopen, it seemed it would take quite a while to meet the 38 conditions Judge Robin McPhee required the club to...
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UV-TV –“Only Matters When”
Central Florida noise pop trio UV-TV make catchy, candid pop melancholia with jagged edges. They're set to release their debut LP, Glass, in a couple months. An exemplary foray into their sound is the...
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Menace Beach –“Suck It Out”
Leeds fuzz sculptors Menace Beach are set to drop their latest full-length offering Lemon Memory in just under two weeks. We've already heard "Maybe We'll Drown" and "Give Blood," and today they've...
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Blanck Mass –“Please”
Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power has announced the third album for his side project Blanck Mass. It's called World Eater, and it's a reaction to the crazy year 2016 was. Power says, "The title is a...
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Kingdom –“Tears In The Club”
LA-based, NY-bred DJ/producer Kingdom is best known as the man sculpting the soundscapes for Kelela and Dawn Richard, among others, but he's yet to drop his own album. That is about to change with the...
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Prince Estate Seeks Spotify And Apple Music Deals, Continues Legal Fight With...
When Prince died last April he was obviously one of the most searched artists on streaming services as people looked to mourn his death, but his music is sadly not available on any streaming platforms...
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Trainspotting 2 Soundtrack Revealed
The tracklist for T2: Trainspotting's soundtrack has surfaced online, seemingly by accident. The OST for the cult classic sequel was listed on Amazon with the same 1/27 release date as the film and was...
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Billy Corgan To Embark On “Thirty Days” Project Around The Country
It's not quite a tour or the Smashing Pumpkins reunion he teases every so often, but Billy Corgan will be traveling across the country again for his documentary project he announced early last year....
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Stream Nicolas Jaar Sirens (Network Version) Feat. New Bonus Tracks
Electro slow-burn auteur Nicolas Jaar offered his latest full-length, Sirens, just this past fall. The final version of the album was different than the stream he temporarily posted on his Other People...
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Syd –“All About Me” Video
The Internet frontwoman Syd Tha Kyd has been talking about a solo album for a while now, and today we get the first foray into her proper debut, Fin. If the way her gauzy, floating vocals melt over an...
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Jamie Foxx To Host Shazam TV Game Show
Music/TV identifier app Shazam announced a television show called Beat Shazam this past fall in which contestants would try to compete to identify a particular hit song before other contestants and the...
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2nd Annual Yams Day Has Danny Brown, Flatbush Zombies, TDE Members, & More
The second annual Yams Day goes down in exactly one week, and it has grown since the inaugural event. This year to honor A$AP Yams (R.I.P.) the A$AP crew has put together another solid lineup with...
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Mating Ritual –“Night Lies”
LA indie pop outfit Mating Ritual are set to drop their two-volume album How You Gonna Stop It? later this year. If their latest single "Night Lies" is any indication, it will be full of lush, sweeping...
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Teen Daze –“First Rain” (Feat. S. Carey)
Vancouver's Jamison (just Jamison, no surname) has been making solid, unassuming dance records as Teen Daze for quite some time now. His most recent album, Morning World, dropped in 2015. He's set to...
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River Tiber –“Acid Test” Video
Toronto producer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist River Tiber dropped his latest full-length offering, Indigo, last summer. One of the standout tracks was the silky smooth, synth-drenched "Acid...
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Wolf Eyes –“Undertow”
Wolf Eyes dropped a behemoth of an album last year with I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces on Jack White's Third Man Records, but they are switching things up in more ways than one for their forthcoming...
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Phantogram –“You Don’t Get Me High Anymore (A-Trak Remix)” (Feat. Joey Purp)
"You Don't Get Me High Anymore," the standout first single from Phantogram's Three, has got a lot of mileage on it. The duo broke down the song on Song Exploder, and it got a couple of remixes from How...
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Porter Ray –“Sacred Geometry (Constellation Mix)” (Feat. Shabazz Palaces,...
Seattle rapper Porter Ray is set to drop his label debut, Watercolor, for the storied Sub Pop in a couple months. Ray is Seattle to the bone, continuing the tradition of Sea-Town rappers with malleable...
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Two Tower Of Power Members Hit By A Train
Two members of the legendary Oakland band Tower Of Power were struck by a train last night around 7:45PM at the intersection of Clay Street and Embarcadero West in Jack London Square in Oakland in...
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SZA –“Drew Barrymore”
TDE's R&B first lady SZA is finally set to follow up her excellent debut Z. She had expressed some frustrations with TDE Co-President Punch, saying she "actually quit" until he released her album....
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Kehlani –“Do U Dirty”
Kehlani is set to release her proper debut full-length effort SweetSexySavage exactly two weeks from today. She's shared a slew of solid singles already with "CRZY," "Distraction," "Table," "Advice,"...
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R.I.P. Larry Steinbachek
Larry Steinbachek, former keyboardist of the '80s British synthpop trio Bronski Beat, has died at the age of 56 after a short battle with cancer. Steinbachek's sister, Louise Jones, said he passed away...
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Trump Inauguration Books 3 Doors Down
We all know of president-elect Donald Trump's struggle to book talent for his inauguration, but he's finally booked some names you might actually recognize without putting them into a rectangle and...
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Lifetime Planning TV Movie About Michael Jackson’s Final Days
As if enough hasn't happened to keep Michael Jackson constantly spinning in his grave, Lifetime is in preproduction on a TV movie about the late King Of Pop, according to The Wrap. The small screen...
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Adna –“Thoughts”
Swedish-born, Berlin-based singer-songwriter Adna has made two beautifully woeful albums, 2014's Night and 2015's Run, Lucifer. She's set to share her third full-length offering, Closure, on St....
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Isadora –“Medications”
LA-born, New Jersey-bred 21-year-old songstress Isadora makes haunting, alluring "basement pop." Her latest single "Medications" is an exemplary taste of her darkly shaded, mesmerizing pop craft. She...
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The 36 Best Odd Future Songs Not By Frank Ocean
The earliest iteration of Odd Future was formed in 2007 although the collective didn't release their first mixtape, The Odd Future Tape, until 2008. Ten years later, several members have grown from...
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Q&A: The Cool Kids Feel Like Rap-Game Ben Simmons On Special Edition Grand...
The Cool Kids are a decade deep in the game but they feel like rookies again. To compare them to the new wave of rookies in the NBA, they would be most like Ben Simmons. The 6'10" 21-year-old is...
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On 9/11 Brockhampton Offered An Escape From NYC
There's always a weird energy worming its way through the Big Apple on 9/11. An ambivalent mixture of melancholy, pride, mourning, hopefulness, leeriness, and togetherness courses through the city,...
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Q&A: Moses Sumney Delves Into Solitude His Own Way On Aromanticism
Nothing about Moses Sumney is ordinary. When you set out to solve for x in the equation of two strict Ghanaian parents who also happen to both be pastors, the solution is usually not one acclaimed...
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The 10 Best Vince Staples Songs
Vincent Jamal Staples doesn't have to hide behind an MC name, middle name, or street name, at a time when most of his fellow rappers of the gangster tradition wouldn't be caught dead using their...
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Tha Carter III Turns 10
When Tha Carter III dropped it seemed like Lil Wayne could continue the series forever and it would warrant our attention for just as long. Who would have known we would be stuck at Tha Carter V, with...
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Los Angeles Turns 10
Texture and electronic leanings have been a part of hip-hop since the genre's adolescence. They were present in the early '80s, though neither was necessarily implemented by choice. Prime sample...
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Kamasi Washington Uses Exquisite Tension To Tackle Internal Struggle On...
Heaven. Earth. One we know. The other we don’t. One we experience. The other is only believed in. But to many, one is just as real as the other. That is the crux of Kamasi Washington’s latest album,...
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Things Fall Apart Turns 20
Many people only know the Roots as Jimmy Fallon’s band on The Tonight Show. While that should be a criminal offense, it exemplifies how underrated and underappreciated the Roots’ legacy in hip-hop (and...
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Premature Evaluation: Flying Lotus Flamagra
In 2012, Steven Ellison, bka Flying Lotus, properly introduced his rapping alter ego Captain Murphy on a mixtape called Duality. If he were to continue that theme and reintroduce himself as the...
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Black On Both Sides Turns 20
When Mos Def's debut album Black On Both Sides arrived -- 20 years ago, tomorrow -- it was a refreshing breath of nasty New York City air of the Brooklyn variety. If you’ve ever lived in or even just...
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Like Water For Chocolate Turns 20
Rappers diversify. That's how it's been for a couple of decades now. Black artistry and ingenuity have always sold well, no matter the shape in which they manifest. It only makes sense rap's global...
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