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Lil Wayne, Ab-Soul and some of hip-hop's best will take over Los Angeles in September for the 2017 Paid Dues festival.

Travis Scott has a new bird, and it really flies this time. The resilient Houston rapper is known for his bombastic stage show, but is clearly trying to up the level of Wagnerian theatricality while touring with Kendrick...

There's always one characteristic that helps shape the movies we see, and that's the music that runs behind them. Most motion pictures are usually mixed with an equal amount of both orchestrated symphonies made especiall...

Lana Del Rey collaborates with A$AP Rocky and Playboi Carti.

The 37-year-old singer at the center of the email controversy is also the son of a billionaire real estate tycoon.

Method Man will play a characted named Rodney in the upcoming HBO original series, 'The Deuce.'

The rocker is a Republican.

In an interview with 'Montreality,' Joey Badass talks about how he believes he helped inspire Jay Z's newest album.

Later this week, Berlin-based producer and DJ Matthew Burton will release his latest EP, Vielen Donk. Comprised of four original compositions, Vielen Donk will officially launch Luke Black's new Chord Records imprint. Th...

The first thing you need to know about Khalid is that he is not DJ Khaled. Different guy. Khaled, with the "e" in his name, you are undoubtedly familiar with: 41-year-old preternatural self-promoter, Snapchat savant, pro...

Just minutes after Arcade Fire's promising new Everything Now single "Electric Blue" hit the internet, they're back with the official music video. Directed by Cousin Club, it stars Régine Chassagne strolling through a c...

The Emmy Awards nominations are out, and a number of notable musicians are up for awards. Jack White, T Bone Burnett, and their associates are up for the new category Outstanding Music Direction for their PBS miniseries ...

Irony has claimed a lot of casualties over the years, but it's just about time to examine whether alt-rock's fate as one of them was self-inflicted or a hit job from outside forces. If that sounds like a self-serious way...

For years, Caribou mastermind Dan Snaith has made sparse, architectural dance music under his Daphni pseudonym. And while Snaith hasn't released an album under that name since 2012's Jiaolong, he's continued to record ne...

The Jordan Spizike is superbly unique.

"Electric Blue" is our latest (final?) preview from Arcade Fire's new album Everything Now. The misty, crystalline track follows the title track, "Creature Comfort," and "Signs Of Life," and on first listen it pulls off ...

Hip-hop elders are opening up and telling stories that should re-shape the way we see them--and hip-hop itself.

Sammy Sosa is really white and Twitter has jokes about it.

Earlier this month, we found out that Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard had started a new band called Bermuda Triangle with fellow musicians Jesse Lafser and Becca Mancari, who are all currently based out of Nashville. The...

A$AP Mob co-founder A$AP Bari is facing accusations that he sexually assaulted a woman after a video leaked on Wednesday night (July 12) that appears to show the co-founder of the Mob-associated VLONE clothing line tryin...

TMZ reports that 2 Live Crew rapper and co-founder Fresh Kid Ice has died. He passed away this morning at a Miami hospital, where he was being treated for an undisclosed illness. He was 53.

Long stuck with the reputation as a dead-eyed killer whose threats were more compelling than his music, 21 Savage just proved he's much more than that.