In this era of cross-listed, audience-consolidating joint rap albums, it was only a matter of time before R&B entered the market. Longtime collaborators Ty Dolla…
Last night's episode of Law and Order: SVU featured Ice-T's character Fin holding a cinnamon raisin bagel, and today several of his Twitter followers raised the important question, why…
Hours before the vinyl release of Sufjan Stevens's Songs for Christmas, a collection of his Christmas songs released between 2001 and 2006, the singer-songwriter has shared a…
Chicago-based rapper Smino's sophomore album NOIR arrived today via Downtown Records. Longtime collaborator Monte Booker, who in recent years helped Smino develop his colorful brand of gadgety funk, handled…
Jeff Tweedy's memoir Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. comes out next week, and today Rolling Stone…
The Free Music archive, an extensive digital library of legal music downloads founded in 2009 and maintained by New Jersey's WFMU radio station, expects to shut…
Missy Elliott, Mariah Carey, and our dad John Prine are among those nominated for next year's Songwriters Hall of Fame class, Associated Press reports. Elliott—who,…
JPEGMAFIA has released a new song titled "Puff Daddy" that pairs his anti-institution snark with a walloping industrial beat from en vogue producer Kenny Beats. Both…
New York rapper 6ix9ine's manager Kifano Jordan was charged today with gang assault and criminal possession of a weapon for an incident in Manhattan that occurred…
Frank Ocean returned today to the Beats 1 airwaves for new broadcasts of his blonded RADIO show. Ocean, along with the show's hosts Vegyn and Roof Access,…
Danny Brown has released the documentary Danny Brown: Live at the Majestic. The film, directed by Andrew Cohn, is exclusively available for purchase on Brown's website…
Chicago-via-St. Louis rapper Smino has shared "KLINK" from his forthcoming sophomore album NØIR. His longtime producer Monte Booker loops a dense flamenco guitar riff that Smino commands…
The Aretha Franklin estate has reached an agreement to release the late singer's long-shelved film documenting her January 1972 performances at New Temple Missionary Baptist…
