• Music Times Awards The Bests (and Worst) of Lollapalooza 2014

    It's been a long weekend at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago and it's taken a decent amount of rumination to come up with a list of the "bests" (and one "worst") from the crowded lineup. Without too much ado, we give you Music Times Lollapalooza Superlatives:

  • Lollapalooza 2014 Day 1 Review & Recap

    Music Times reporter Ryan Book works best in his home territory of the Midwest, or at least that's what he told us. Join him every day this weekend for a chronological look at what went down at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago.

  • Investigation Reveals That Eminem Was Banned from Playing Hyde Park

    Eminem is going to be playing a massive show at Wembley Stadium in London later during 2014, but that development only came about because the city's park system got touchy about having the controversial emcee appear on its grounds. E-mails have emerged that confirm the rapper was turned down for a spot at AEG's Barclaycard British Summer Time concert series.

  • Atlanta's Music Midtown Festival, Hosting Eminem, Jack White, More

    After a summer full of festivals hosting Outkast as their headliner, it's interesting to note that Atlanta's Music Midtown isn't one of them. Atlantians can rest easy knowing that the ATLiens will be performing two dates later during 2014, and the Music Midtown lineup ain't looking too shabby either.

  • Reports Suggest Two Huge Hip-Hop Performers Going on Tour

    Beyoncé and Jay Z have earned the title of "year's biggest tour" with "On The Run." Or have they? Our pal and Los Angeles Times hip-hop/R&B specialist Gerrick Kennedy tweeted on Thursday that another huge tour featuring "two of the biggest rappers in the game right now" is being planned.

  • Eminem Producing 'UFC'-Styled Rap Battle Event

    Eminem and the Slaughterhouse crew (the group associated with his Shady Records) are looking to make rap battles a premier television event with the Total Slaughter rap battle "league." The event will feature multiple scheduled battles onstage, similar to many boxing events.

  • Austin City Limits Releases Lineup

    Austin City Limits, the last of the American mega festivals to release its lineup for the 2014 season, has finally dropped its lineup for both weekends of the event, which will go down between October 3 and 5, plus between October 10 and 12.

  • Tupac Shakur Takes The Crown for Obscenity in Hip-Hop

    Andrew Powell-Morse and the folks at BestTickets.com get a shout-out today, in thanks for publishing the best data analysis report we've read this month so far (it's only been two days, but this report is excellent). "Profanity in Rap Lyrics Since 1985" tracks just that, by taking five of the most popular albums from each year between '85 and '13 and counting up every curse word within.

  • Eminem, Outkast, Kings of Leon among Official Headliners at Lollapalooza

    Remember those reports about a possible Lollapalooza lineup leak last week? It turns out they were exactly correct. Eminem, Kings of Leon, the Arctic Monkeys and Skrillex will be among the headlining acts at the 2014 variant of the Chicago music festival. The event released its official schedule Wednesday morning.

  • Music Times Presents: 'The Guise to Not Pissing Lord Jamar Off'

    Lord Jamar is disgusted with what he sees on a daily basis from the hip-hop world. The emcee and member of the Brand Nubians is better known for headstrong condemnations of trends in hip-hop, versus his actual music. Jamar typically lashes out at any signs of new thought in rap music, making him somewhat the Newt Gingrich of the genre...the grand poobah (pun intended) of conservative rap culture. If you're an up-and-coming rapper, Music Times has compiled a short lists of things to avoid lest you piss off Jamar.
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