• ScHoolboy Q wishes he never would have signed to a major label

    ScHoolboy Q just released his debut album, Oxymoron, via Interscope (where his fellow TDE co-hort Kendrick Lamar signed) but now wishes he would've stayed indie. In an interview with a Radio.com station, the Cali rapper said he would have liked to have put out the record on a smaller scale.

  • Kendrick Lamar's collaboration with Tame Impala, 'Backwards,' is streaming now [LISTEN]

    Kendrick Lamar's collaboration with Tame Impala is now streaming on Pitchfork along with the rest of the star-studded Divergent soundtrack. The track, "Backwards," is an updated version of Tame Impalas 2012 song "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards." One thing's for sure: Kendrick's recent love affair with indie-rock has been making for some awesome remixes.

  • James Blake discusses collaborating with Kanye West

    In a radio interview last November, Kanye West praised James Blake saying, "Just go listen to his music, and say, 'Hey, that's Kanye's favorite artist." "I thought it was nice," the British electronic songwriter told Rolling Stone about the compliment.

  • Pitchfork Music Festival lineup announced: Beck, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kendrick Lamar to headline

    Today (Feb. 14), Pitchfork announced that Beck, Kendrick Lamar and Neutral Milk Hotel are the fest's three major headliners. Fresh off the release of his 12th studio album Morning Phase, Beck will be Friday night's headliner, with a reunited Neutral Milk Hotel on Saturday and indie's favorite rapper/that guy who made "Radioactive" listenable Kendrick Lamar will tackle Sunday's lineup.

  • Drake thinks Macklemore's apology text to Kendrick Lamar was 'wack'

    As previously reported, Macklemore apologized to Kendrick Lamar after he and Ryan Lewis beat out the Compton rapper in multiple rap categories, most notably Best Rap Album, as well as Best New Artist. "You got robbed," he wrote. "I wanted you to win. You should have. It's weird and sucks that I robbed you. I was gonna say that during the speech then the music started playing during my speech and I froze."

  • Super Bowl concerts in and around New York City [SCHEDULE]

    With the weekend soon approaching, there are opportunities in and around New York City for football and music fans. VH1, Citi Bank, Bud Light and EA Sports, Fox Sports, ESPN, Live Nation, Pandora, Direct TV, REVOLT and more are hosting Super Bowl concerts to hype up the big game. A blizzard may be headed our way, but the acts headed to the Big Apple are hot. Check out a list (via Billboard) of events that begin tonight (Wednesday January 29) through Sunday and let us know if you'll be heading out to any of them!

  • Daft Punk, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar see huge upticks in Spotify streams following Grammys

    Album and download sales are down. Everyone knows this. The number of viewers taking on the Grammys even year continues to rise however, most likely because they're on television, and the populace just can't handle things they can't see. Either way, musicians that are already pretty popular from a musical perspective see huge increases in activity following The Grammys' broadcast, at least according to numbers released by Spotify.
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