• Roger Waters Performs With My Morning Jacket at Newport Folk Fest

    Leading up to the Newport Folk Festival, headliner Roger Waters assured prospective concertgoers that he crafted a "very special" set for the Rhode Island gig on Friday. The bassist followed through with three covers, solo cuts and a new track--all with the assisted talents of surprise backing band My Morning Jacket.

  • Knife Party Announce New EP 'Trigger Warning', Release Date

    Knife Party has announced that they have a new EP coming out titled Trigger Warning and it will be released in the next 6-8 weeks. That release date is very tentative given their propensity to miss deadlines, like what happened during the Abandon Ship album cycle. However the album did leak several weeks ahead of time, so those two factors might balance each other out.

  • Stream 'Southpaw' Soundtrack Feat. Eminem, 50 Cent, The Weeknd

    The new Hollywood feature film Southpaw featuring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker and others has unveiled the official movie soundtrack that was executive produced by Eminem. The soundtrack features new songs from the Rap God, including a collaboration with Gwen Stefani titled "Kings Never Die," the theme song for the film "Phenomenal" and "All I Think About" from his Bad Meets Evil duo with Royce da 5'9". There are other tunes from Em's Shady Records family including 50 Cent and Slaughterhouse. Other contributions come in from artists new and old like The Weeknd and Biggie.

  • Jay Z/Nas, Tupac / Notorious B.I.G.: The Best Hip-Hop Diss Tracks Ever

    The hottest story in hip-hop for the last week has been Meek Mill's allegations that Drake uses a ghostwriter, and the Toronto rapper turned up the heat by releasing "Charged Up," a perceived diss track aimed at his accuser. Responses to Drake's release have been fairly positive, at least from fans (Mill himself hasn't responded to the track yet) but Drizzy has a while to go in terms of both attitude and wordplay if he wants to land on the list of the greatest diss tracks ever. Here are five examples, from the Nas/Jay Z beef to the Tupac Shakur/Notorious B.I.G. beef that set a high bar for vitriol.

  • Stream NBA 2K16 Soundtrack From DJ Khaled, Mustard, Premier

    NBA 2k16 has unveiled the complete tracklist for its upcoming video, which will be released on Sept. 25 in the United States. 2K called upon three of the biggest DJs in hip-hop at the moment, DJ Mustard, DJ Premier and DJ Khaled to executive produce the soundtrack, each adding 10 selections to the song rotation. Within those 10 are two exclusive tracks from each DJ to the soundtrack.

  • Korn's Jonathan Davis' Lawyers: "B*tch Better Have Our Money"

    Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis has a weird fascination with murder, and we're not just referring to the band's recent remix of Rihanna's "Bitch Better Have My Money." It seems the frontman was at one point trying to open a museum dedicated to serial killers, or at least his collection of serial-killer related paraphernalia, but it fell through, resulting in a lawsuit. Now, the lawyers who helped him settle out of that lawsuit are bringing charges of their own, claiming that Davis never paid them for their services.

  • Future's 'Dirty Sprite 2' Leads Billboard 200; Alan Jackson and Jason Isbell Rep

    Future found the secret to moving more albums with his 'Dirty Sprite 2': Don't give people time to think about it. The album topped the Billboard 200 with more than 147,000 equivalent copies sold, just two weeks after the album was announced. It's been a little more than a year since he released Honest, and he more than doubled the sales of that effort. The quick-release method has helped other rappers Drake, Kendrick Lamar and Meek Mill get to the top of the charts as well during 2015.

  • Soundcloud Could Be in Financial Trouble as Major Label Deals Loom

    SoundCloud could be facing some dire financial consequences, including being "dangerously low on cash," according to reports from Digital Music News. although the company is valued at more than $700 million, two sources indicated to the publication that the digital music platform could be broke in four or five months if it doesn't secure additional funding.

  • El-P Debuts Fantastic Four Movie's "Another Body" on Beats 1 Radio

    El-P of Run The Jewels, like many a hip-hop performer before him,. is a huge fan of comic books and science fiction. His abilities as a producer to boot make him an ideal candidate, therefore, for adding exclusive new music for new Marvel film The Fantastic Four. The hip-hop figure debuted his new instrumental track, "Another Body," on his duo's Beats 1 Radio show this weekend.
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