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| Jan 16, 2026 | Spotify Elevates Premium Cost Amidst Strategic Shifts and Artist Backlash | Spotify is raising Premium subscription prices. The US, Estonia, and Latvia will see a $1 increase. Monthly plans now cost $12.99. This marks a third price hike since 2023. The streaming giant cites a commitment to a "great experience.... |
| Jan 15, 2026 | Spotify hikes U.S. Premium subscription price months after last rate increase | Spotify is raising the Premium subscription price by $1 per month in the U.S., Estonia and Latvia.
The monthly price will go from $11.99 to $12.99 starting in February.
The music streaming platform raised the U.S. price to $11.99 in June 20... |
| Dec 19, 2024 | Say Lou Lou's 'Blue Ruin': A Dreamy Dive into Heartbreak and Imagination | Say Lou Lou is back, and they’re making waves. The Swedish-Australian duo has just released a self-directed film for their track "Blue Ruin." This isn’t just a music video; it’s a visual feast that captures the essence of heartbre... |
| Dec 19, 2024 | Say Lou Lou release their self-directed film for 'Blue Ruin' | Say Lou Lou release their self-directed film for 'Blue Ruin'
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| Feb 12, 2024 | Spotify’s layoffs put an end to a musical encyclopedia, and fans are pissed | On a brutal December day, 17% of Spotify employees found out they had been laid off in the company’s third round of job cuts last year. Not long after, music fans around the world realized that the cult-favorite website Every Noise at Once ... |
| Jan 3, 2024 | 20 times musicians trashed their own songs | Culture 20 times musicians trashed their own songs
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| Jan 3, 2024 | A complete timeline of Cardi B and Offset's relationship | Entertainment A complete timeline of Cardi B and Offset's relationship
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| Oct 16, 2023 | The complete timeline of Drake's rise to stardom, from starring on 'Degrassi' to his record-breaking reign as a rapper | Entertainment The complete timeline of Drake's rise to stardom, from starring on 'Degrassi' to his record-breaking reign as a rapper
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| Oct 11, 2023 | Every Drake album, ranked from worst to best | Entertainment Every Drake album, ranked from worst to best
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| Sep 8, 2023 | A massive breakdown of Taylor Swift's celebrity friendships | Entertainment A massive breakdown of Taylor Swift's celebrity friendships
Amory Rose
2023-09-08T19:57:35Z
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| Aug 8, 2023 | Grimes, who once banked $5.8 million in 20 minutes by selling crypto art, says she's made more from NFTs than from her entire music career | Entertainment Grimes, who once banked $5.8 million in 20 minutes by selling crypto art, says she's made more from NFTs than from her entire music career
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2023-08-08T16:50:45Z
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| Jul 11, 2023 | From throwing insults to talking about a reunion, here's everything One Direction members have said since their hiatus | Entertainment From throwing insults to talking about a reunion, here's everything One Direction members have said since their hiatus
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| Jun 26, 2023 | Some fans have turned on Lana Del Rey. Here's a complete timeline of how the singer soured her own reputation. | Entertainment Some fans have turned on Lana Del Rey. Here's a complete timeline of how the singer soured her own reputation.
Callie Ahlgrim
2023-06-26T14:45:04Z
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| May 11, 2023 | Frank Ocean fans, starved for new music, allegedly paid money for so-called leaked tracks. Turns out they were AI-generated | Fans of Frank Ocean have been starved for new music from the reclusive artist.
A scammer allegedly capitalized on that, duping his fans into buying AI-generated tracks.
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| May 10, 2023 | Frank Ocean fans, starved for new music, allegedly paid money for so-called leaked tracks. Turns out they were AI-generated | Frank Ocean fans, starved for new music, reportedly paid money for so-called leaked tracks that were AI-generated. Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images
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| Jan 28, 2023 | Backing the next Wizkid: tech platforms want you to invest in the next Afrobeats star
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Success! | Nigeria’s films were once regarded as the country’s most significant cultural export. But ask anyone these days, and they’ll tell you it’s Afrobeats. It has birthed global stars from Nigeria and one Netflix documentary. The genre is gaining... |
| Jul 29, 2022 | 13 musicians who famously left their bands and why | Entertainment 13 musicians who famously left their bands and why
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| Jul 21, 2022 | An anonymous music streaming YouTube channel has built a loyal community of over 11 million fans, but complex copyright rules could put its future in jeopardy | Tech An anonymous music streaming YouTube channel has built a loyal community of over 11 million fans, but complex copyright rules could put its future in jeopardy
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2022-07-21T13:04:18Z
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| Jul 21, 2022 | An anonymous music streaming YouTube channel has built a loyal community of over 11 million fans, but complex copyright rules could put its future in jeopardy | Lofi Girl is a music-streaming YouTube channel with a community of 11 million subscribers.
Earlier this month, its stream abruptly disappeared due to a false copyright strike, YouTube said.
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| Jun 23, 2022 | 'It's Almost Winter-Agnostic': At This Annual Gathering of Creators, Recession is on No One's Mind | The creator economy is the bedrock of this week’s VidCon convention, which is drawing creators, companies, investors and fans alike to Anaheim to discuss the rapidly growing realm of digital content and entertainment.
To discuss how investo... |
| Jun 13, 2022 | Wave Sports and Entertainment Lays Off a Third of Its Staff | Sports media startup Wave Sports and Entertainment (WSE) has laid off 56 people—roughly one-third of its staff—as worsening economic conditions continue to hit tech startups.
The Santa Monica-based company began laying off workers last week... |
| May 13, 2022 | LA Tech ‘Moves’: ImmPACT Bio and Game Play Network Hire New CTOs | “Moves”, our roundup of job changes in L.A. tech, is presented by Interchange.LA, dot.LA's recruiting and career platform connecting Southern California's most exciting companies with top tech talent. Create a free Interchange.LA profile he... |
| May 4, 2022 | Elevation Ventures Is Raising $50M for a Climate-Focused Tech Fund in SoCal | Interest in electric cars is spiking as gas prices rise to their highest prices in years, but supply chain headaches and the lack of infrastructure such as charging stations are keeping the demand pent up. And, the longer-term effects on po... |
| May 2, 2022 | Biden Announces $3 Billion Investment In Electric Vehicle Batteries | The Biden administration on Monday announced a new $3.1 billion plan to ramp up electric vehicle battery production in the U.S. The effort comes as supply constraints have hindered automakers’ ability to secure EV battery components—potenti... |
| May 2, 2022 | LinearB Raises $50M To Help Software Engineers Manage Workflow | Santa Monica-based software engineering startup LinearB has raised $50 million in Series B funding led by San Francisco’s Tribe Capital, the company announced Monday.
New investor Salesforce Ventures and existing investors Battery Ventures ... |
| Apr 29, 2022 | GR0-Up: Founders on Humanizing Startup Culture in Tech | It’s one thing to say that a company shares abstract values like “openness” or “transparency,” with the goal of fostering a safe environment that encourages creativity and collaboration. It’s intuitive that people who feel confident in shar... |
| Jan 21, 2022 | Ситуация: все больше музыкальных компаний выходит на IPO — зачем они это делают | Акции на бирже размещают лейблы, розничные магазины и даже отдельные исполнители. Но не все делают это успешно. Обсудим, что к чему.Фотография: Nick Hillier. Источник: Unsplash.comЛовят волну
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| Oct 15, 2021 | The best lyrics from every song on FINNEAS’ debut album ‘Optimist’ | Finneas O’Connell, known mononymously as FINNEAS, is a 24-year-old singer-songwriter and producer. Luke Fenstemaker
FINNEAS is best known as a Grammy-winning producer for Billie Eilish, his younger sister.
However, his debut album “Optimist... |
| Oct 15, 2021 | The best lyrics from every song on FINNEAS' debut album 'Optimist' | Entertainment The best lyrics from every song on FINNEAS' debut album 'Optimist'
Opinion by Callie Ahlgrim
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| Oct 9, 2021 | Meet Quinn, the 16-year-old internet musician who was the young face of hyperpop until she deleted everything and started over | The 16-year-old internet musician osquinn was the face of the new music genre hyperpop until she deleted everything. Osquinn/SoundCloud
In 2020, Quinn, 16, became the young face of the emergent music genre hyperpop.
Quinn’s genre-defying de... |
| Oct 4, 2021 | A timeline of everything Elon Musk and Grimes have said about each other on social media | Grimes and Elon Musk have been a couple since 2018. Taylor Hill/Getty Images
Elon Musk told Page Six that he and musician Grimes separated after more than 3 years.
The two have a 1-year-old son named X Æ A-Xii together.
Here’s how the relat... |
| Sep 28, 2021 | HubSpot : A Crash Course on Prestige Pricing | People often conflate higher costs with higher quality. The two concepts seem intrinsically linked. We have a natural inclination to believe, "Well, that company must be charging that much for that product for a reason."
That ment... |
| Jul 23, 2021 | From throwing insults to talking about a reunion, here’s everything One Direction members have said since their hiatus | One Direction has been on hiatus for a few years. Frazer Harrison/AMA2013/FilmMagic/Getty
One Direction shot to stardom in 2010 after competing on “The X Factor” and went on hiatus in 2015.
Zayn Malik has said he made no friends while in On... |
| Jul 12, 2021 | From Denmark To Drake, Coco O. Encourages Women To Take Creative Control Of Their Art | Coco O. sketches vocal ideas in Copenhagen.Katrine Winblad |
| Jun 28, 2021 | A&R rep Mont Brown felt he had to leave Philly to make it in music. But he has an idea to keep the next generation of creatives | Editor’s note: This profile is part of a series on Black entrepreneur expats — why they left, and what Philly could do better to keep the next generation.Before he was an artists & repertoire (A&R) rep for Columbia Records out in Lo... |
| Jun 26, 2021 | The 22 best LGBTQ breakup songs from the past decade | Entertainment The 22 best LGBTQ breakup songs from the past decade
Ashley Simone Johnson
2021-06-26T14:15:00Z
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| Dec 30, 2020 | No One Is A Nobody: Social Media Redefines Fame For A Digital Generation | Eric is co-founder and CEO of Open Influence. |
| Dec 23, 2020 | 35 absolutely essential albums released by female artists in 2020 | Entertainment 35 absolutely essential albums released by female artists in 2020
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| Aug 12, 2020 | “This Is For The Biopic”—Ant Clemons And The Perspective Of Success | Ant Clemons (photograph by Fiori Carmen)Fiori Carmen |
| Apr 7, 2020 | Japan Coronavirus Update: Companies Offering Free Services | As the worldwide coronavirus has forced many people to quarantine at home, long hours have been whiled away on social media as people constantly seek out latest updates about Tokyo, Japan or their home country. It can be easy to forget all ... |
| Mar 11, 2020 | Hungry Activists Should Take A Bite Out Of The Cheesecake Factory | The Cheescake Factory display at the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai.Getty Images |
| May 1, 2019 | The Glow’s Fuzzy Debut Album Ponders the Big Questions | Mike Caridi has some questions. You might expect that he would. Last year, his cult beloved rock band LVL UP, often on the edge of calling it quits, finally made the decision to disband at more or less the peak of their success. They’d been... |
| Mar 18, 2019 | Jordan Peele Made a Playlist of His Favorite Music Moments in Film | The soundtrack for Jordan Peele’s next big horror film, Us, is stacked with bangers and bops, from Migos’ “Stir Fry” to Childish Gambino’s “Redbone.” It also features a healthy dose of old-school feel good songs like Nas and Lauryn Hill’s “... |
| Mar 7, 2019 | Fat Tony Takes Houston With Him Everywhere He Goes | Fat Tony isn’t the type of person who lets you forget where he’s from. The love he has for Houston, his hometown, is clear from the moment we meet. Five minutes into our conversation, Fat Tony gives me, a native New Yorker, a history lesson... |
| Mar 1, 2019 | Solange Gave Us 'When I Get Home' After A Frustrating Black History Month | At midnight, between the close of the last day of Black History Month and the start of Women’s History Month, Solange Knowles released her fourth studio album, When I Get Home. The announcement of its release came via a tweet from Solange h... |
| Feb 15, 2019 | Ja Rule Is Planning a New Music Festival That Is Definitely Not a Scam | When Ja Rule witnessed the chaos that ensued at the now-infamous Fyre Festival, the rapper—a co-founder of the fest—assured via Twitter that the fiasco wasn't his fault. But now that both Netflix and Hulu’s competing documentaries (full dis... |
| Jan 16, 2019 | Most Anticipated R&B Albums Of 2019: The Weeknd, Childish Gambino, Rihanna And Normani | SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 03: Rihanna attends the Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Anniversary Event at... [+] Overseas Passenger Terminal on October 3, 2018, in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Caroline McCredie/Getty Images for Fenty Beauty by Rihan... |
| Nov 12, 2018 | why bts was banned from japanese tv | It has been a year of firsts for South Korean boy band BTS (방탄소년단). They were the first k-pop band to win a Billboard Music Award, the first k-pop group to sell out a US arena, the first k-pop group to be invited to speak at the UN, and the... |
| Oct 24, 2018 | Lana Del Rey Opens Up About Her Stalker Who Brought Knife to Show | Lana Del Rey is now sharing more with fans about a convicted stalker that came to one of her Florida shows last February with a knife.
"If you bring weapons to the show with plans to use them and ur posting about it -the police will pr... |
| Aug 18, 2018 | Martin Shkreli’s Lawyer Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison | The corporate lawyer convicted in 2017 of aiding in the fraud schemes of pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by a federal judge. The sentence, handed down on Friday in a Brooklyn courtroom, came after... |
| Aug 17, 2018 | Young Thug Drops 'Slime Language,' a New "Compilation Project" | Young Thug celebrated his 27th birthday yesterday by hiring out a Dave & Buster's in Los Angeles and hosting an invite-onluy listening party for Slime Language, the follow-up project to April's surprise Hear No Evil EP. (UPDATE: TMZ is ... |
| Jul 12, 2018 | Del the Funky Homosapien Fractured 7 Ribs and Punctured a Lung in Stage Fall | Music Del the Funky Homosapien Hospitalized After Falling During Gorillaz Set
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Del the Funky Homosapien is still recovering at a hospital in Denmark, after falling off stage during Gorillaz' headline set at Roskilde ... |
| Jul 9, 2018 | Oneohtrix Point Never's Demo for Usher Is a Portal to a Weirder Timeline | The great thing about music not making sense anymore is that we have underground figures collaborating with mainstream giants on the regular. Grimes wrote for Rihanna, while Tame Impala's Kevin Parker has now become an in-demand hip-hop col... |
| Jul 6, 2018 | Future's 'BEASTMODE 2' Is Finally Here | Future has released BEASTMODE 2, the long-awaited follow-up to 2015's acclaimed Beast Mode mixtape. The nine-song project dropped out of the blue late Thursday night. Zaytoven and the late Seth Firkins, who worked as Future's sound designer... |
| Jul 6, 2018 | Zaytoven Says That 'Beast Mode 2' Is the Start of Future's Next Big Run | Last night, Future surprise-released his long-teased Beast Mode sequel into this burning, inhospitable world. Though it's still too soon to definitively say if it lives up to its predecessor's lofty reputation, what's objective is that Zayt... |
| May 29, 2018 | PUSHA-T Respects Drake's Hits But Is Still Trying to Destroy Him | PUSHA-T is back, but he also never left. His latest album Daytona garnered instant acclaim, raising hype for the remaining projects to come this month from his label G.O.O.D. Music. As if having a great album produced by the born-again libe... |
| Apr 16, 2018 | Beyoncé Is Starting a Scholarship for Students at Historically Black Colleges | Music There Is No One On Earth Like Beyoncé
Andrea Domanick04.15.18
Beyoncé's historical performance at Coachella this weekend was largely inspired by homecoming celebrations at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (better known at ... |
| Mar 30, 2018 | Lil Durk Leaves Def Jam, Releases Surprise LP 'Just Cause Y'all Waited' | Chicago rapper Lil Durk has parted ways with Def Jam Recordings, his label of five years, and released a surprise new LP. Just Cause Y'all Waited, the 25-year-old artist's first full-length release since 2016's Lil Durk 2x, features Ty Doll... |
| Mar 13, 2018 | Kanye West Once Took All of Shia LaBeouf's Clothes to Look Even Fresher | Shia LaBeouf, style icon. It's a tough pill to swallow but the evidence arguing for that title is there. No less an authority than Kanye West once rapped "I wish I dressed as fresh as Shia LaBeouf," in an early version of "No... |
| Dec 28, 2017 | James Harden Will Wear 'Free Meek' Sneakers on Court Tonight | Meek Mill is still in prison. Despite his sentence relying on a 10-year-old conviction, despite his parole officer and the district attorney recommending that he not be incarcerated, and despite an FBI investigation into the conduct of sent... |
| Dec 15, 2017 | Jordan Fall Gets Moody on His West Side Love Story "Rush" | There’s an unspoken power that DJs wield over their crowd. They’re the attendee’s entry point to an event and, if you think about standout memories from a concert or show you’ve gone to, you’ll likely distinctly remember whether or not the ... |
| Nov 26, 2017 | Reverend Al Sharpton to Meet Meek Mill in Prison on Monday | Reverend Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist and former advisor to President Barack Obama, has announced that he plans to visit Meek Mill in prison tomorrow, November 27. Sharpton said that he plans to visit Meek Mill in an effort to sec... |
| Oct 5, 2017 | Some Nerds Used Algorithms to Find Out Which Word Is the "Most Hip-Hop" | Rap and nerds. Nerds and rap. The two are complementary to each other, as evidenced by Genius, anime artwork, and Jedi Mind Tricks. Though many of that world's most famous lines and songs have been analyzed to death, it seems that no one ha... |
| Sep 17, 2017 | "Bling Bling" Was Just the Best Thing Ever | Day 363: "Bling Bling (Radio Edit)" feat. Lil Wayne, Juvenile, and Big Tymers – B.G., Chopper City in the Ghetto , 1999
"By the year 2000, Lil Wayne gon' tear this game up," Baby warns, editing his verse for the radio ve... |
| Jun 20, 2017 | Spotify Will Reportedly Let Labels Pay to Put Music in Your Playlists | In the latest chapter of 2017 a.k.a. "The Gang Watches Late Capitalism Go Cyber," the BBC reports that Spotify is currently testing out a system wherein record labels can pay to have music appear in the playlists of the service's ... |
| Jun 10, 2017 | Evidence Emerges of Known Music Maker Frank Ocean Playing First Show in Three Years | When Frank Ocean cancelled his scheduled performances at Sasquatch!, Hangout, and Primavera Sound last month, an unpleasant déjà vu set in. Ocean had cancelled all of his performances last year, only emerging from the ether to street race T... |
| May 27, 2017 | Kondi Band's Debut Fuses Techno and African Roots Music to Mesmerize You | When American-Sierra Leonean DJ and producer Boima Tucker first came across thumb piano player Sorie Kondi via a YouTube link in 2007, he was transfixed. "I was struck by his beautiful vocals and socially-conscious lyrics," Tucker... |
| May 17, 2017 | Meet Red Bull's billionaire CEO, who's launching a news site that's being compared to Breitbart | Vladimir Rys/Getty Images
Dietrich Mateschitz, cofounder of Red Bull.
With an estimated net worth of over $16 billion, Red Bull cofounder and CEO Dietrich Mateschitz is the wealthiest person in Austria.
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| Apr 25, 2017 | That Story About Uber Tracking People After They Deleted The App? Yeah, That's Not Really Accurate | Have you heard the story about how Uber was tracking ex-users even after they had deleted the app from their phone? You’d have to be living under a rock to have missed it. It came from a fascinating NY Times profile of Uber’s CEO/founder Tr... |
| Apr 19, 2017 | Benjamin Booker Releases Power Pop Gem “Right on You,” Another Brilliant ‘Witness’ Cut | "Witness," the title track from Benjamin Booker's second LP, was a remarkable statement for this chilling time. The gospel-heavy track featured Mavis Staples on its chorus, asking, "Am I gonna be a witness? / Just gonna be a ... |
| Apr 19, 2017 | Cayetana Are Reborn, Still Glorious on New Single “Bus Ticket” | Cayetana's four-track split EP with Australian powerhouse Camp Cope got a little buried last year, not least because Camp Cope had their own full-length—one of Noisey's favorites—drop around the same time. But it was as close to perfect as ... |
| Apr 19, 2017 | Palmistry's "Lifted" Video Finds Calm in the Chaos | London-born Benjy Keating worked behind the scenes on his sound for years before releasing PAGAN, his 2016 debut as Palmistry. His is music that requires distillation: minimal, evaporated dancehall, boiled down to compressed beats and a coo... |
| Apr 1, 2017 | Listen to Vince Staples Join Joey Fatts on Brand New “562” | Vince Staples and his older cousin Joey Fatts have put together some smart tracks over the last couple years. 2016's "Farrakhan" was a fiery three minutes that exhibited both artists' pointed, sharp flows. Summertime 06's more dis... |
| Apr 1, 2017 | Listen to Lupe Fiasco’s Tribute to Colin Kaepernick, “Kneelin’ on Needles” | Two months on from the release of his sixth studio album DROGAS Light (and four months after "retiring" in the wake of a row over antisemitism in his lyrics), Lupe Fiasco returned Saturday afternoon with a new track, "Kneelin... |
| Mar 24, 2017 | Watch an Exhaustingly Beautiful Longform Video From Blood Orange, Featuring ‘Freetown Sound’ Tracks | Blood Orange's Freetown Sound, #25 on Noisey's 2016 Albums of the Year, was as close as Devonté Hynes has come to making a proper masterpiece in his long, varied, and occasionally bizarre career. It was a perfect pop collage, kaleidoscopic ... |
| Mar 22, 2017 | Let's Talk About This 'Space Jam' Soundtrack Vinyl Reissue | Did you know that the original webpage for the 1996 movie Space Jam remains online, untouched since its inception? You probably do know that, because someone writes about it every year or so. It's an opportunity to relive your youth, to rem... |
| Mar 4, 2017 | Here's Dave Chappelle as Emcee, Thundercat on Bass, and Robert Glasper Doing Everything | Thundercat's third studio album, Drunk, came out last week. It features some brilliant and unexpected collaborations from artists like Flying Lotus (!), Kamasi Washington (!!), Kendrick Lamar (!!!), and Kenny Loggins (?). Last night, per Th... |
| Feb 15, 2017 | Abdu Ali and Dan Deacon Spark and Howl on "Liberate Yaself" | Abdu Ali and Dan Deacon attack from different angles, but they're tearing towards the same location. They're both luminaries of the Baltimore independent scene, they both create immersive, experimental music, and they're both trying to fuck... |
| Dec 7, 2016 | The 66 Best Tracks of 2016 | Despite occasionally feeling like a trip through a dishwasher filled with swamp water, 2016 managed to cough up a handful of musical gems from the murk. This was not a year for muted introspection, but for throwing back your head and lettin... |
| Dec 6, 2016 | The 20 Best Mixes of 2016 | 2016 was a great year for losing yourself in the delirium of a great DJ mix. Online radio surged, crate-digging selectors brought their geekily obsessive sets to festival main stages, and countless wonderful records and new tools came out, ... |
| Nov 7, 2016 | Teddy Fantum and G Milla Begin DSTRY's Art Gang Takeover with "On Me" | Photo by Rashad416
If you know Toronto rap, you know about Teddy Fantum and G Milla, prime exporters of the churning heaviness that's put the city on the map of hip-hop connoisseurs. Their new collab "On Me" soars like a romantic ... |
| Nov 4, 2016 | Here’s Why Black Millennials Are Corporate America’s Future | In digital supremacy, black millennials shall lead the way.
That’s the core finding of a new Nielsen study called Young, Connected and Black, which describes the black millennial cohort in America as sophisticated, optimistic, exuberant and... |
| Oct 25, 2016 | More Like 21 Gentle: Here’s 21 Savage in the Romantic Video for “Feel It" | At first, "Feel It" doesn't come across as one of Savage Mode's lighter spots. It has the same pulsating, morose feel as the rest of the album, and 21 Savage doesn't stray from his usual monotone delivery. But it's a love song thr... |
| Aug 30, 2016 | Jubilee Announces Long-Awaited Debut Album, 'After Hours' | Brooklyn scene stalwart, Jubilee, announced her long-awaited debut album After Hours today on her home label Mixpak. The LP autobiographically explores the moods and rituals of nightlife as a touring DJ, and follows a number of original sin... |
| Aug 30, 2016 | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's "Under Your Always Light" Is a Poetic, Beat-Driven Fantasy | Photo by Aaron Mason
RPM Records, the very recently established haven by RPM.fm for Canadian Aboriginal artists to release their music hasn't put out a lot of material yet, (though Ziibiwan's Time Limits EP is great) but the label's latest ... |
| Aug 20, 2016 | Frank Ocean Releases His Long-Awaited New Album, ‘Blond’ | After years of speculation, countless skipped deadlines, and a few weeks of ramped-up activity, Frank Ocean has finally released the much-anticipated follow-up to 2012's Channel Orange. It's called Blond and you can listen to it here.
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| Aug 15, 2016 | How Eminem's "Sing for the Moment" Ruined White Rap Forever | Eminem in the "Sing for the Moment" video / Screenshot via YouTube
Being a music fan in 2002 was strange: Rock had splintered into the dying groans of post-grunge and the beginnings of blog-friendly indie rock with pop-punk trounc... |
| Aug 9, 2016 | MikeQ Shares Archival Collaboration with Legendary House Vocalist Romanthony on New Single | New Jersey producer MikeQ has shared the third single from his ballroom label Qween Beat's hotly anticipated debut compilation Qweendom, and it's something of a once-in-a-lifetime treat. "Get Sum" finds Michael Cox sharing a colla... |
| Aug 8, 2016 | The Weeknd Donated $50,000 to Create an Ethiopian Studies Program in Toronto | Photo by Daniel Patlán
Abel Tesfaye's known through his music as a pretty moody dude, but it turns out the guy's heart isn't made of frozen Henny. Over the weekend, Tesfaye made a donation of $50,000 to the University of Toronto to help fun... |
| Aug 2, 2016 | Carla dal Forno Announces Debut Album on Blackest Ever Black with Suspenseful Video | Melbourne-born, Berlin-based artist, Carla dal Forno, announced her debut album You Know What It's Like today with a DIY, tastefully restrained video for lead single "What You Gonna Do Now?" Not a lot happens in the clip, which wa... |
| Jul 26, 2016 | Chicago Footwork Dance Crew The Era Announces Stage Show, 'IN THE WURKZ' | Esteemed footwork dance crew, The Era, has put together its first ever stage show and is preparing to debut it in South Chicago on August 27. Along with dancing, IN THE WURKZ incorporates poetry and film, weaving the different formats toget... |
| Jul 7, 2016 | Palmistry Raises His Voice | All photos by Tonje Thilesen
Benjy Keating sounds rough today, though it's not really his fault. The voice on the other end of an early June Skype call from Berlin—where he's stationed for a few months to work on new music—isn't one that I ... |
| Jul 7, 2016 | Live Streaming and the Downside of Viral Violence | As tech trends continue to evolve, with it comes the importance of merging social consciousness with tech innovation. Live-streaming has taken digital media to a new level – allowing for users to connect with each other in new ways beyond t... |
| Jun 15, 2016 | The 30 Best Tracks of 2016 So Far | Club owners and journalists worldwide spent the early part 2016 rushing to be the first to sign the death certificate of the stadium-filling strain of electronic music called EDM. But even as some of the genre's marquee festivals struggle t... |
| Jun 6, 2016 | Witness the Truth: The Church of Kanye West Is the Closest Thing We Have to Beatlemania | Two things happened last night. Firstly, we learned conclusively that New York City can't handle outdoor music events for shit, as the final day of Governors Ball Music Festival—the night headlined by Kanye West—was canceled due to severe w... |
| Apr 29, 2016 | Post Malone Shares Video for Trap Folk (Is That a Thing?) Song "Go Flex" | Post Malone is really into the acoustic guitar. He was into it a few years ago when he posted a video of himself playing Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” on YouTube while draped in the American flag. He was into it a few months... |
| Apr 8, 2016 | The South has something to say, and this time Atlanta hopes it’s with tech | If your city has developed a cultural export with a national reputation before, then your local entrepreneurship community ought to take some lessons.
In Chicago, founders speak of the Second City movement in comedy, a pipeline that has rec... |
| Mar 28, 2016 | Instagrammers really want you to turn on notifications to avoid death by algorithm | Instagram today is an endless sea of meaningless posts asking you to turn on post notifications for each account you follow. Brands and professional Instagrammers are worried that they are going to disappear from your Instagram feed once th... |
| Mar 22, 2016 | Kingdom Announces New Solo EP, Shares Title Track "Shox" | Kingdom (aka Ezra Rubin) is releasing a two-song solo EP via his imprint Fade To Mind, coming out digitally March 25. Shox is the LA-based producer's first solo material since 2013, as he's been understandably busy running the label, not to... |
