Red Bull Music Academy has finished their month-long residency in New York City, but we're still getting goodies from some of the events. Today, they've released a video of a conversation between…   Read Story »

In this pretty confusing promo clip for HBO's How To Make It In America, Duck Sauce's "Barbara Streisand" gets a rework, where Luis Guzman's name gets swapped in for Babs's. The video stars, among…   Read Story »

This past weekend, Q-Tip's headlining set at the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival became a cameo-heavy stage party, with everyone from Bustah Rhymes to Monie Love to, most bloggably, Kanye West grabbing…   Read Story »

"People want my power, and they want my station." The first listen from Santigold's Santogold followup is a call to arms and a declaration and its credits read like the intersection of aural worlds…   Read Story »

Yesterday we decided against dedicating a post to Yeezy's Today cancellation, choosing instead to update our Lauer V. Kanye report to acknowledge this @KanyeWest's tweet: "I'm not performing on the…   Read Story »

Warren Fu's clip for Mark Ronson's latest all-star jam was filmed at a cool discotheque on Neptune. "The Business Intl" crew also includes D’Angelo, Boy George, Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes,…   Read Story »

We missed MNDR (AKA Amanda Warner) when she canceled her spot opening for Sleigh Bells in Brooklyn a couple weeks back. But she had a good reason to bow out -- she had an offer to open for Massive…   Read Story »

About a year ago I joked that Kanye's Hype Williams-directed video for "Amazing," while featuring stunning aerial shots of a certain slice of Pacific paradise, seemed mostly like the perfect way to…   Read Story »

The Black Keys recruited quite a crew for their Damon Dash-spearheaded hip-hop project Blakroc. Mos Def, Q-Tip, RZA, Jim Jones, Raekwon, Ludacris, and the ghost of ODB all appear. Hear a cut and look…   Read Story »

Last year, San Fran's inaugural Outside Lands festival featured Radiohead, but also power outage issues. This year: No Radiohead, but abundant electricity. Trade-offs! While Thom was twisting words…   Read Story »