Many of you know that I grew in a small town in Eastern Pennsylvania called Minersville, but what you don’t know that it’s about 40 minutes down the road from what has become the center of the concert touring universe. That town of only 9,400 is called Lititz and it’s become a total company town…

The French have “C’est la vie.” New Yorkers own “So it goes.” The kids who probably vandalized your property and skated all over it drop off a new video from their debut album, So It Goes. The video for their title track is a hodgepodge of old film clips, sights in NYC, and Ratking doing…

Taken from their forthcoming #000000 & #FFFFFF project, The Neighbourhood team up with Atlanta’s Indigo Child Raury to give us “Warm”. Just under a fortnight after the group unveiled their Danny Brown assisted track “H8M4CH1N3”, this new collaboration serves as an anticipation building effort for their upcoming release, whilst further confirming just how incandescent the…

In case you needed yet another reminder of how disgusting men can be to women, Charli XCX suffered more public lechery at the hands of Dutch radio host Giel Beelen this morning. After brief conversation about a track played on the Giel! show, the presenter asks her to record a radio drop saying “good morning in the…

Kasabian covered Iggy Azalea’s ‘Fancy’ and also revealed plans to perform their debut album in full at the iTunes Festival in London this week…

This fall Adam Diehl, professor at Georgia Regents University, is teaching English course that will use Kendrick Lamar‘s highly-praised 2012 album good kid, m.a.a.d. city as a jumping-off point for a semester-long deep dive into comparable stories about young urbanites in film and literature. The reading (or watching or listening, such as the case may be) also includes canonical…

Flying Lotus, one of Hip-Hop’s gem producers, has released the first single off his upcoming album, You’re Dead!. The song, which features Kendrick Lamar, is called “Never Catch Me”, and it appears to be the perfect title for the track.  Both FlyLo and Kendrick take off with turbo jets from the onset, leaving a lot…

Chris Brown has pleaded guilty to assaulting a man outside a Washington, D.C. hotel room last October. Although he was originally charged with a felony, the charge was lessened to a misdemeanor. A judge sentenced him to time served; Brown spent two days in a District of Columbia jail in association with this case, according…

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TV On The Radio have unveiled a new song to coincide with the announcement of a new tour and the unveiling of their forthcoming album’s cover art. The song, entitled “Happy Idiot,” will serve as the first single for their upcoming LP, Seeds. The tour dates in support of the album will take the band from…