• 'U Mad' Rapper Vic Mensa Officially Signs to Roc Nation Records

    21-year-old Chicago rapper Vic Mensa, real name Victor Kwesi Mensah, has officially signed to Jay Z's Roc Nation Records. The announcement was made today on Twitter and in a ceremony streamed exclusively on TIDAL. His single with Kanye West titled "U Mad" was released on Roc Nation yesterday as a single.

  • Europe's First Techno Museum Set to Open in Frankfurt

    Modern Germany has been known for its affinity for techno. As the wall was coming down and communism receded from Eastern Europe, Berliners were united after 24 years of separation and techno helped spur this along. Now the country is getting its own techno museum in Frankfurt. Industrial DJ Andreas Tomalla, known professionally as TALLA 2XLC, is setting up the new cultural center dubbed The Museum of Modern Electronic Music (MOMEM). Tomalia is often credited with inventing the word techno, though the sound came from the Belleville Three (Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins) and helped start some of the first parties in city during the 1980s. He hopes to open the museum doors in 2017 on the premises of the city's Childrens Museum and is only using private funding.

  • Jeremih, Gucci Mane Tease "Money Do" Ahead Of 'Late Nights: The Album' [LISTEN]

    The long and confusing saga of Jeremih's upcoming album Late Nights: The Album continues with the unveiling of a snippet of a new track that will presumably be a part of it. Jeremih uploaded a 1:47 clip of his new song "Money Do" featuring the vocals of still incarcerated Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane. Jeremih, who normally takes reigns on the hooks, flips the script with this one and leaves that job to Guwop, while leaving the soft and sensitive side of his artistic persona at the door for tougher sing/rap verses.

  • Taylor Swift's 'Style' Video Synced With Lana Del Rey's 'Summertime Sadness' Going Viral On Tumblr [WATCH]

    A mashup sync of Taylor Swift's "Style" music video and Lana Del Rey's hit song "Summertime Sadness" is going viral on Tumblr. KQED likens the video to syncing up Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to The Wizard Of Oz film and explains the phenomenon "is due to sheer coincidence and something called apophenia, which is described as 'the experience of perceiving patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.'"

  • Blur's 'Magic Whip' Comeback Album Now Streaming On iTunes [LISTEN]

    Back in February, Brit-pop band Blur announced they'd be dropping a new album, their first in more than 12 years, titled Magic Whip. Last month the Damon Albarn-fronted band gave fans a taste of the record with the singles "There Are Too Many Of Us" "Go Out," "My Terracotta Heart" and "Lonesome Street." Now the moment has finally arrived, and the album is streaming online ahead of its April 27 release over at iTunes Radio. Magic Whip follows up 2003's Think Tank.

  • Hardwell Releases Somber "Echo" Music Video From 'United We Are' Album [WATCH]

    Hardwell has unveiled the music video for his recent single, "Echo," featuring the top line of trance vocalist, Jonathan Mendelsohn, from his debut artist album, 'United We Are.' A surprising cut from the album that ditched his big room, festival-driven sound and went more towards trance that has been a hallmark of Dutch dance music since the 1990s, Hardwell showed some versatility with "Echo" and employed one of the best vocalists in the genre to help him. It was a bright spot on an album that had its moments of brilliance, but was otherwise rather disorganized and disjointed.
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