• 19-Year-Old Man Dies Outside of Spring Awakening Festival

    Tragedy has struck the music community again. On Saturday night, June 13, a 19-year-old man was found dead outside of EDM event Spring Awakening Music Festival in Chicago. According to ABC 7 Chicago, police suspect the death to be drug related, but are waiting for the results of a toxicity screen. The three-day festival took place at Soldier Field, which is home to the Chicago Bears. Big-name DJs like Hardwell, Tiësto, Skrillex, Diplo, their duo Jack Ü, Eric Prydz, Zedd and others all performed at Spring Awakening.

  • Childish Gambino Premieres New Song at Bonnaroo Ahead of Album

    Bonnaroo came and went this past weekend and while many attendees are still making their way home and piecing their lives back together, but the rest of us are ogling over live footage from the various Super Jams, live premieres and impromptu guest appearances that are customary on The Farm. One of the artists that used the massive platform that is Bonnaroo to premiere some music was Childish Gambino. He took the stage on Saturday night and appeared to open his set with a brand new track that would indicate a brand new direction with his music.

  • Rich Homie Quan Apologizes For Second Leaked Song About Raping Women

    Rich Homie Quan, real name Dequantes Lamar, has had a rough go of things lately and he only has himself to blame. In May a treasure trove of tracks were leaked from the Rich Gang archive, most of then unfinished demos that were never intended for release. As they spread on the Internet, unfortunately for Rich Homie Quan, two of the songs were him discussing raping women. He apologized for the first track, but after the second song, "Day 1," the "Flex" rapper was left without much moral ground to stand on. He has attempted to apologize for the second track in a new interview for Billboard, saying that he was young and had no guidance in his life at the time.

  • LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy Got Sponsors, Still No Love for 'Subway Symphony'

    Former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy is looking to spice up his hometown New York City and plans on doing so by creating a "subway symphony." The (for now) theoretical project will consist of subway station turnstiles that play notes...to theoretically perform pieces of music just by swiping a metro card and entering.

  • Top 10 From Northside Festival 2015

    This past week, Northside Festival took over Williamsburg. The SXSW-styled festival brought together film, speakers in various mediums and music over seven different days and nearly 400 bands that were in town. We were there to capture some of the best moments from a very busy couple of days of music and we narrowed that down to a top 10 list. Check out our top 10 picks for the 2015 Northside Festival.

  • Louder Than Life Announces Rob Zombie, Godsmack, ZZ Top as Headliners

    Louisville's Louder Than Life Festival will return for a second year, this time featuring headlining slots from ZZ Top, Rob Zombie and Godsmack. Shinedown, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Slash (as well as Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators) are also listed among the top acts at the event this year.

  • XXL Releases Fetty Wap's 2015 Freshman Class Freestyle and Profile [WATCH]

    Earlier this month, XXL unveiled its 2015 Freshman Class list and Fetty Wap is the first of the pack to be presented to the masses. The hip-hop magazine recently released the New Jersey rap singer's freestyle and profile. The 2015 Freshman Class list also left out at least one rapper determined to call out XXL.

  • Nas Performs 'Made You Look' With Run The Jewels at Northside Festival

    Last night a special hip-hop moment happened. One of the very best to ever pick up a mic, Nas appeared on stage with Run The Jewels -- one of the hottest up-and-coming duos in hip-hop right now. Run The Jewels were scheduled to perform as the headliner at 50 Kent, the main outdoor venue at the Northside Festival in Brooklyn, and they had a very special trick up their sleeves. The Illmatic rapper showed up as a surprise guest to perform his 'God's Son' track "Made You Look" at the end of RTJ's set and your author was on hand to capture the action on video.
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