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To celebrate the magazine's print run, we assembled every cover shot since its start in 2002. Go down memory lane and take a look at some of the beautiful women that grace the cover of KING magazine.

After three long years, K. Dot's fans can finally rejoice. The "i" rhymer revealed the release date, cover art and title of his highly anticipated sophomore album, To Pimp a Butterfly. The Top Dawg Entertainment offici...

Can you guess who Mother Monster wants to play at her wedding?

Sam Smith may be suffering from laryngitis, but he's definitely not in the lonely hour.

Morrissey has cancelled yet another gig due to illness, just days ahead of his tour reaching the UK later this week. The Smiths turned solo icon has suffered many blows on the road recently. Last year alone, he had to ca...

An Australian street performer retooled Cyndi Lauper's 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' to drown out a homophobic preacher.

As a smaller-than-average child and now 5'2" adult, Thumbelina and Polly Pocket were and are fascinating heroines to me. And being one to always read books by their covers, I was naturally intrigued by this single from T...

In a rapidly developing bromance, Noel Gallagher has praised Ed Sheeran's honesty for turning down a charity gig - hailing him as a 'fucking dude'. Gallagher recalled the conversation in NME saying Ed Sheeran is a ''dude...

One of the more memorable recurring gags in Office Space was that one of the characters was named Michael Bolton, and he’s repeatedly asked about it, as I’m sure anyone who shares a name with a celebrity is. Granted,...

Snoop Dogg is back with "Peaches N Cream," a new song that will make you feel like it's already the weekend. The rapper is also confirmed as the keynote speaker at SXSW 2015 in Austin, Texas.

This is pretty gratifying to see: Oakland's Fantastic Negrito, who beat out nearly 7,000 bands from around the country with his submission to NPR's Tiny Desk Concert Contest, has been enjoying the fruits of his labor -- ...

The Canadian songstress has released another tune!

Waka Flocka Flame is speaking up about the disgust he felt after seeing a video of the University of Oklahoma fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon singing a racist chant. The rapper shared his feelings on CNN, explaining in de...

On her 1990 debut album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, Sinéad O’Connor sang about police brutality in the UK on the song “Black Boys In Mopeds.” Around Christmas, after seeing the rash of American police kill...

Both will tour separately, though it's unknown when and where.

Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson has denied that a recent angry open letter aimed at 'he who shall remain nameless' was aimed at Kanye West. The awesome rock icon made headlines when she opened fire upon West for interr...

Indie rock trio The Luka State covered The Beatles iconic track 'Tomorrow Never Knows' recently as a B-side to new single 'The Believer'. The trippy video for the cover has now been unveiled - watch it here on Gigwise fi...

In part one of Rolling Stone's exclusive interview with Robert Hunter, the legendary (and fairly reclusive) Grateful Dead lyricist looked back on his early years with the band: meeting Jerry Garcia, signing on as the pri...

Sam Smith is back in work mode after his recent awards shows success.

The album comes in softly with New Wave, almost immediately washing away preconceptions based on previous work. The rest of the album follows in degrees this gradually focusing, gradually strung out saga.

Zendaya teams up with Bobby Brackins and Jeremih for hip-hop collaboration "My Jam." Watch the video, which was filmed in Puerto Rico, above.

California indie-rock band Cold War Kids released a new video today for "Hotel Anywhere," a track off their fifth studio album Hold My Home (out via Downtown Records), and we're inspired to go piece together our past and...