• Azealia Banks On Mission To Track Down Descendants of Slave Traders, Make Them Pay Reparations

    Azealia Banks is known for being vocal when it comes to issues that are important to her. She's been making headlines recently because of her beef with Iggy Azalea and T.I. and her thoughts on how hip-hop is being compromised by cultural smudging. Now she has a bigger mission than hip-hop: fighting to get reparations for black people whose ancestors were slaves. She calls out corporations who have benefited from slavery and believes that they owe the current generation of black people money because of the generational poverty the slave trade caused.

  • Skrillex Previews Beyoncé '7/11' Jack Ü Remix At OWSLA Holiday Party [LISTEN]

    Most run of the mill holiday parties end in everyone going home in a drunken stupor after trying to empty the bar. Only one of these parties were lucky enough to have Skrillex show up and play his brand new remix of Beyoncé "7/11" alongside Diplo as a part of their super-duo Jack Ü. Premiering the remix at the holiday party in Los Angeles for his label, OWLSA, Sonny Moore, also known as Skrillex, performed a frenetic 70 minute set, which included the new Bey remix. Diplo confirmed it was a Jack Ü remix on his Instagram, saying it was a present for Chrimbus.

  • Metric Share New Song "The Fatal Gift," Currently Working On New Album [LISTEN]

    As a Christmas gift to their fans, Canadian indie rock band Metric have shared an unfinished version of a new song titled "The Fatal Gift," which you can check out below. Though the band is known for their synthy new wave sound, "The Fatal Gift" is a low-key piano ballad with minimal instrumentation, though they may fill out the arrangement later on, seeing as how this is unfinished.

  • Eminem Comes Out As Gay In Scene From 'The Interview' [WATCH]

    Eminem Gay!? Those are the words that flashed across the screen in a scene from Sony's The Interview, which is now available to stream online as well as view in the theaters. The Detroit rapper makes a cameo in the James Franco/Seth Rogen comedy in a scene where he is being interviewed by Franco's character Dave Skylark.

  • Earl Sweatshirt Debuts New Music Live In Santa Ana [LISTEN]

    Earl Sweatshirt treated fans to five pieces of brand new music during his two-night run at the Observatory in Santa Ana, California. He gave a look into his upcoming sophomore album, performing snippets of two untitled songs, a new freestyle over A$AP Rocky and Schoolboy Q's "Brand New Guy" and two titled tracks called "Faucet" and "Hell," Stereogum reports.

  • N.E.R.D. Share 'Squeeze Me' from Upcoming 'SpongeBob' Movie [LISTEN]

    Pharrell Williams's funk/hip-hop outfit N.E.R.D. have shared a new track titled "Squeeze Me," which you can check out below. The track is N.E.R.D.'s first since their 2010 album "Nothing" and is their contribution to the soundtrack for the upcoming "SpongeBob SquarePants" movie, which is being helmed by Pharrell along with his N.E.R.D. bandmate — and Neptunes production partner — Chad Hugo.In true Pharrell fashion, "Squeeze Me" begins with an instrumental four-count, and keeping with the tropical setting and imagery of "SpongeBob SquarePants," the song has a vaguely Caribbean atmosphere to it, like a cross between ska and calypso.You can check out N.E.R.D.'s "Squeeze Me" from "The Spongebob Movie" here, via "Spin":

  • Above & Beyond Share Greek Theater Acoustic Show Video Recap [WATCH]

    Possibly the most ambitious project ever undertaken by Above & Beyond, the trance super-trio of Tony McGuinness, Paavo Siljamäk and Jono Grant, set out to create an entire album's worth of material from their own back catalog and flip it from its electronic form into a playable acoustic arrangement. Much of 2013 was spent on this project, rearranging some of their existing work, finding the right musicians and rehearsing in anticipation their first show at the Porchester Theater in London on June 19, 2013. After premiered all of the work there at the Porchester Theater, the group took the newly remade sounds from the small London venue outside to the much larger, historic Greek Theater. One of the highlights of 2013 for the group, they got the whole thing on video and created a recap to give fans the highlights of what happened.

  • 'Love & Hip Hop NYC's' Tahiry Jose Still Recovering from NYFW Attack

    Love & Hip Hop NYC returned to VH1 a few weeks ago with Tahiry Jose still in the mix. She has dated Joe Budden on and off for years and while they are currently off, that doesn't mean that Jose has been drama-free. She was physically attacked last September and just this past week her assailant, Charles Suggs got off pretty easy in a Manhattan court room.

  • Thom Yorke Shares New Song "Youwouldn'tlikemewhenI'mangry," Named Most Legally Downloaded BitTorrent Artist Of 2014 [LISTEN]

    Back in September, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke unexpectedly released his second solo album Tomorrow's Modern Boxes through torrenting site BitTorrent, but just in case there were some people who were turned off or confused by its release method, Yorke has given the album a more conventional release today (Dec. 26) through Bandcamp. In addition to posting the album on Bandcamp (available for £3.86, or $6.00), Yorke has also shared a new track titled "Youwouldn'tlikemewhenI'mangry," which you can check out below. Like Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, "Youwouldn'tlikemewhenI'mangry" is a minimal electronica track with sterile beats, warped synths, and Yorke's trademark falsetto.

  • Jerry Seinfeld Performs on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,' Delivers Hilarious Holiday Set [WATCH]

    Jerry Seinfeld unleashed his signature brand of observational brilliance on The Tonight Show earlier this week, taking aim at everyone's love of possessions. Jimmy Fallon gave the comedian the fuel he needed after announcing that the audience members would be receiving TVs as a Christmas gift. Seinfeld then sat down with Fallon to talk about their episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and also outlined his worst set for a web exclusive.
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