• Janelle Monae Joins Outkast Onstage at Counterpoint

    Performer Janelle Monáe joined the stage while Outkast performed its hit "Hey Ya." She didn't sing during the surprise performance, but instead danced along while Andre 3000 sang what is arguably the duo's most well known song.

  • Austin City Limits Releases Lineup

    Austin City Limits, the last of the American mega festivals to release its lineup for the 2014 season, has finally dropped its lineup for both weekends of the event, which will go down between October 3 and 5, plus between October 10 and 12.

  • Eminem, Outkast, Kings of Leon among Official Headliners at Lollapalooza

    Remember those reports about a possible Lollapalooza lineup leak last week? It turns out they were exactly correct. Eminem, Kings of Leon, the Arctic Monkeys and Skrillex will be among the headlining acts at the 2014 variant of the Chicago music festival. The event released its official schedule Wednesday morning.

  • Outkast Add New Festival Tour Date for Milwaukee's Summerfest

    Outkast may not be working on a new album, but that's kind of OK when you consider the hip-hop duo will be performing at a stunning 40 music festivals this year. The latest addition to its massive touring schedule? Milwaukee's Summerfest. Today (Feb. 26), it was announced that Andre 3000 and Big Boi will be taking the Missouri stage in June.

  • Outkast Not Making New Album, Queen Latifah Now Says

    Bad news for Outkast fans: It seems the hip-hop duo isn't working on a new album at the moment after all. The rumors started swirling last week after Queen Latifah, the duo's former manager, appeared on The Howard Stern Show and seemingly confirmed that Andre 3000 and Big Boi were planning on hitting the studio soon.

  • Outkast Will Play 40 Festival Dates during 2014.

    It started innocently enough. Outkast was confirmed last week as the headliner for the Coachella Music Festival in Coachella. A few days later, member Big Boi dropped via Twitter that the duo would also be playing New York City's Governor's Ball music festival. Now, a few days after the Governor's Ball announcement, the group has declared that it will be performing at more than 40 festivals around the world during 2014.

  • Coachella 2014 Sells Out in Record Time

    If you were hoping to go to Coachella 2014, we're sorry. Tickets for the annual music festival in Indio Valley have sold out. If you weren't one of the lucky few that jumped on it as soon as the tickets became available on Friday morning. Otherwise, you were pretty much hung out to dry. All tickets for the three-day event sold out in two hours and 37 minutes after ticket sales went live.

  • Outkast to Headline New York's Governor's Ball Music Festival as Well as Coachella

    Can you have too many Outkast reunion announcements in one day? We at Music Times are one's to say no. But then again, the second reunion for one of hip-hop's foremost duos made official as of Thursday was its appearance at Governor's Ball in New York City, far closer to our offices. So what are you going to wave in our face now West Coast?

  • Outkast, Arcade Fire Top Coachella 2014 Lineup

    The lineup for this year's Coachella Music Festival has been announced, and the biggest news from the event is that rap duo Outkast will be the headliner for Friday night's shows. Muse and Arcade Fire will be the main events at the other nights of the festival's duel weekends.

  • Music Times' Wishes for New Hip-Hop in 2014

    Pepsi Pulse, a sub-site within pepsi.com dedicated to music, has listed five hip-hop albums that it wants to hear during 2014 (which is odd...based on what Pusha T tells us, hip hope is more of a Coke genre...sorry, bad joke). The list includes fairly stellar choices, but Music Times had a few others in mind we're more interested in. Our suggestions for three replacements:

  • Outkast may be making new music to celebrate anniversaries of 'Aquemini,' other albums, says collaborator Sleepy Brown

    It's anniversaries galore during 2013-'14 for Outkast, the most renowned name to come out of the Atlanta hip-hop scene. It will be 20 years since the duo, consisting of Andre 3000 and Big Boi, released its debut Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik in 1994. September 29 marked 15 years since the pair dropped Aquemini (an excellent album Music Times listened to on Monday) , and September 23 was the tenth anniversary of Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Sleepy Brown, while discussing his own upcoming new album, suggested during an interview that 'Dre and Boi may be planning new music to celebrate the anniversary of its debut.
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