Hot 97's Summer Jam takes place June 7 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. This year's lineup includes headliner Kendrick Lamar, plus Big Sean, Fabolous, Meek Mill, Travi$ Scott, Joey Bada$$, Ty Dolla $ign, Dej Loaf, Chris Brown, Trey Songz, Omarion, Childish Gambino, B.o.B., and Teyana Taylor.
Last year, Nicki Minaj brought out Drake, Lil Wayne, and Lil Herb for her Summer Jam set.
Photo by Jessica Lehrman
Danny Brown performed on Saturday in Glasgow, Scotland. The show was cut short after someone in the crowd threw water at Brown, causing him to slam his mic down and walk off stage. (It's unclear if it was a bottle of water, or a pint glass.) You can watch a video of the incident below, via FACT.
A$AP Mob is being sued by a woman who claims she was injured at the group's 2013 performance at the Fonda Theater in Hollywood, TMZ reports. According to the brief, Tammy Nguyen claims to have been hit by A$AP Ferg when he jumped into the crowd, after which she had to fight her way out with little help from security. Nguyen is suing both A$AP Mob and Ferg.
A$AP Rocky was previously charged with assault over allegedly slapping female concertgoer at last year's Made in America Fest in Philadelphia.
The plaintiff claimed in her filed documents that the incident caused her to suffer from a variety of ailments which prevent her from "enjoy[ing] society with her minor child as a young, single mother." She also argued that Rocky has a history of similar behavior, citing an incident where he appeared to slap a fan at a concert in Sydney, Australia two months before the Made in America set. These allegations have yet to be reconciled.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra have shared the video for "Multi-Love", the title track from their forthcoming album, due May 26. Check it out below. Directed by Lionel Williams, the video explores a colorful digital world—one that you, too, can visit thanks to an interactive app the band released along with the video. It's available for PC, Mac, and Unity.
Williams, who also designed the app, described the concept in a press release:
It is meant to represent the vacuum of space by impressing upon inter-dimensional unfolding, immaterial objects, and time-driven reverberation of events. The virtual space allows for most 3D objects to trail in time – based on the directions one moves. You can construct & paint the objects in space to stretch them in any direction, to create infinitely vast compositional spaces.
Also, they've added more dates to their upcoming tour. Check out the revised schedule here.
Watch Unknown Mortal Orchestra perform "Ffunny Friends" at Pitchfork Music Festival 2012:
According to an announcement made this morning by the National Recording Registry, Radiohead's 1997 smash OK Computer will be preserved in the Library of Congress alongside the Doors' eponymous 1967 debut, Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill , Joan Baez' Joan Baez , Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate from 1949, and more.
According to the press release:
Under the terms of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, the Librarian, with advice from the Library’s National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB), is tasked with annually selecting 25 recordings that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and are at least 10 years old. The selections for the 2014 registry bring the total number of recordings on the registry to 425, a small part of the Library’s vast recorded-sound collection of nearly 3 million items.
Also making the annual list were Sly and the Family Stone's Stand! (from 1969), 20 songs compiled in 1995's Sesame Street: All-Time Platinum Favorites, and other spoken-word recordings including Steve Martin's second comedy album A Wild and Crazy Guy .
Listen to Radiohead's "Karma Police", off of OK Computer:
This year's lineup for San Francisco festival Outside Lands has been revealed. It includes Kendrick Lamar, Tame Impala, D'Angelo and the Vanguard, Elton John, St. Vincent, Wilco, Mac DeMarco, Sky Ferreira, Caribou, the Black Keys, Natalie Prass, Toro Y Moi, First Aid Kit, Speedy Ortiz, SZA, Mumford & Sons, DJ Mustard, Hot Chip, Sam Smith, Laura Marling, Django Django, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Alvvays, METZ, and Dan Deacon. Check out the entire lineup at their website.
Outside Lands takes place August 7-9 at Golden Gate Park.
Watch the "Too Many Cooks"-esque lineup announcement video, created in collaboration with Funny or Die. It features San Francisco 49ers player Aldon Smith.
Future and Waka Flocka Flame have teamed up for a collaboration they call Future Flocka, sharing an 808 Mafia-produced track called "Rotation". Listen above, via Rap-up.
The song originally appeared on Waka Flocka Flame and DJ Whoo Kid’s mixtape The Turn Up Godz Tour. (It was previously titled “All These Bitches.”)
Watch Future freestyle over a TNGHT beat in an episode of Pitchfork.tv's "Selector":
Watch Waka Flocka Flame get a "World's Baddest Bitch" tattoo in a different episode of "Selector":
Wavves' Nathan Williams' other band Spirit Club have shared three live performance videos for "Eye Dozer", "Sling", and "Still Life", all of which were directed by Jack Wagner. The performances took place in Williams' L.A. living room. Check them out below.
"Eye Dozer", "Sling", and "Still Life":
Watch Wavves in an episode of Pitchfork.tv's "Frames":
The New Pornographers have announced a festival-heavy tour in support of last year's Brill Bruisers . It includes stops at Sasquatch! Music Festival, Primavera Sound, NXNE, NOS Primavera Sound, and Pitchfork Music Festival (their final stop, on July 19). Check out the rest of the dates below.
Read our Article on the New Pornographers.
The New Pornographers:
05-22 Quincy, WA - Sasquatch! Music Festival
05-29 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
05-30 Utrecht, Netherlands - Tivoli De Delling
05-31 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
06-01 Aarhus, Denmark - Fonden Voxhall
06-02 Stavanger, Norway - Folken
06-03 Oslo, Norway - Parteatret
06-04 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Strand
06-06 Porto, Portugal - NOS Primavera Sound
06-20 Toronto, Ontario - NXNE
07-10 Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club
07-11 Brooklyn, NY - Celebrate Brooklyn
07-12 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
07-14 Indianapolis, IN - The Vogue
07-15 Grand Rapids, MI - Meijer Gardens
07-16 Bloomington, IN - The Castle Theatre
07-17-19 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival
Listen to the New Pornographers' "Dancehall Domine":
Dev Hynes and Neneh Cherryhave shared a new collaboration called "He, She, Me" via an elaborately-choreographed video directed by Kathryn Ferguson for Selfridges. According to a press release, the song and video work together as an exploration of the idea of Agender. The performance was choreographed by Ryan Heffington.
Said Ferguson:
"The film is an evolving journey through a subtle push and pull between masculinity and femininity, captured entirely in one unbroken shot, utilising in-camera camera effects in a world populated by out-scaled physical props inspired by Faye Toogood's in store realisation of Agender. This film has come at a time when important conversations about gender fluidity and non-binary ways of being are finally getting a lot of attention."
"He, She, Me":
Death Grips have shared a new video of a track called "On GP", a single from their forthcoming album Jenny Death. The video was posted on the band's Facebook page along with the note:
This is us inside the echo chamber of Studio 1 at Sunset Sound Recorders back in August. The song is track 9 from Jenny Death, its called "On GP".. thank you
"On GP":
Dirty Projectors' Dave Longstreth and Micachu and the Shapes' Mica Levi both recently composed classical works for Ensemble LPR-- La Poisson Rouge's resident strings ensemble. Their work, respectively titled "Michael Jorban" and "Greezy", appeared alongside arrangements from late composer Claude Vivier and Greece's Iannis Xenakis.
Listen to the compositions below, via WQXR.
Tyler, the Creator has announced a tour that kicks off in April, as Brooklyn Vegan reports. Fellow Odd Future member Taco will open. Check out the schedule below.
Tyler, the Creator:
04-06 Tempe, AZ - The Marquee
04-11 Indio, CA - Coachella
04-18 Indio, CA - Coachella
04-20 New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
04-21 Oxford, MS - The Lyric Oxford
04-22 Athens, GA - Georgia Theatre
04-24 Jacksonville, FL - Mavericks at the Landing
04-25 Saint Petersburg, FL - Jannus Live
04-26 Miami Beach, FL - The Fillmore - Jackie Gleason Theater
04-28 Orlando, FL - The Plaza Live
04-29 Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore
05-01 Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues
05-02 Raleigh, NC - The Ritz
05-03 Norfolk, VA - The Norva
05-05 Richmond, VA - The National
05-06 Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall
05-08 Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's
05-09 Detroit, MI - The Fillmore
05-10 Grand Rapids, MI - The Intersection
05-12 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland
05-13 Manchester, England - Academy
05-14 London, England - Roundhouse
05-15 Bristol, England - O2 Academy
05-17 Utrecht, Netherlands - Ronda
05-19 Hamburg, Germany - Mojo
05-20 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
05-21 Berlin, Germany – C-Club
05-23 Zurich, Switzerland - Volkhaus
05-24 Munich, Germany – Theater Fabrik
05-25 Cologne, Germany – Kantine
05-26 Paris, France - Le Trianon
05-28 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
06-05 Dallas, TX - Bomb Factory
06-07 Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom
06-10 Baltimore, MD - Ram's Head Live
06-12 New York, NY - Irving Plaza
06-14 Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom
06-20 St. Louis, Missouri - The Pageant
06-21 Columbia, MO - The Blue Note
06-26 Fort Collins, CO - Aggie Theatre
06-28 Missoula, MT - Top Hat Lounge
06-30 Spokane, Washington - Knitting Factory
Watch Odd Future do "Radicals" at Pitchfork Music Festival:
Björk and Arca performed "Stonemilker", the lead track from Björk's new album Vulnicura , together during Bjork's Carnegie Hall concert last night, Stereogum reports. The duo was accompanied by a string section consisting of members of Alarm Will Sound. Watch footage below.
Last year HBO commissioned an official "Game Of Thrones" mixtape called Catch the Throne , which featured Big Boi, Common, Wale, Kilo Kish, and others. Now, the artist list for the second installment of the mixtape, Catch The Throne: Vol. 2, has been revealed.
Method Man, Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, Ty Dolla $ign, Estelle, Mastodon, Antrax, MNDR, Kap G, Killswitch Engage, Mushroomhead, Raquel Sofia, Stalley, and Yandel will all appear on Catch The Throne: Vol 2. Each song on the mixtape will sample music from the soundtrack of Season 4. (Season 5 of "Game of Thrones" begins April 12.)
Listen to Talib Kweli's Vol. 2 contribution, "Lord of the Light", above.
Catch The Throne: Vol 2 is out March 17 via soundcloud. It will be released free of charge.
Listen to Volume 1 of Catch The Throne:
Last year HBO commissioned an official "Game Of Thrones" mixtape called Catch the Throne , which featured Big Boi, Common, Wale, Kilo Kish, and others. Now, the artist list for the second installment of the mixtape, Catch The Throne: Vol. 2, have been revealed.
Method Man, Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, Ty Dolla $ign, Estelle, Mastodon, Antrax, MNDR, Kap G, Killswitch Engage, Mushroomhead, Raquel Sofia, Stalley, and Yandel will all appear on Catch The Throne: Vol 2. Each song on the mixtape will sample music from the soundtrack of Season 4. (Season 5 of the Game of Thrones begins April 12.)
Listen to Talib Kweli's Vol. 2 contribution, "Lord of the Light", above.
Catch The Throne: Vol 2 is out March 17 via soundcloud. It will be released free of charge.
Listen to Volume 1 of Catch The Throne:
A new documentary that chronicles the recording of Mary J. Blige's 13th studio album The London Sessions will have its world premiere at this year's TriBeCa Film Festival. The documentary, which is named after the record, will feature behind-the-scenes footage of Blige recording with Sam Smith, Disclosure, and Emeli Sandé. It is one of the festival's spotlight films.
Watch video of Mary J. Blige recording "Right Now" with Disclosure:
Jack White has revealed in an interview with Billboard that he was the mysterious bidder on the first vinyl record ever cut by Elvis, which recently sold for $300,000. The record in question featured covers of "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" that were recorded in 1953. In the interview, White reveals that he was the bidder that was previously listed as anonymous, and he said that he plans to reissue the single (via Third Man Records) on Record Store Day.
More recently, White spent some time with Detroit Tigers at their Lakeland, Florida training facility. Previously, he's thrown out the first pitch at a Detroit Tigers game, and he's also been issued his own baseball card. Check out pictures and video of his recent visit with the team below, via Radio.com.
jack white Thank you for cóming today / Unos de los grandes en la música !!!! http://ift.tt/1MaC9CQ
— Jose Iglesias (@JoseIglesias_SS) March 5, 2015
#Tigers Iglesias talking to Jack White while Iglesias' walk up song, 7 Nation Army, plays. No joke. https://t.co/k590bXi6uL
— Dana Wakiji (@FSDwakiji) March 5, 2015
Chance The Rapper has shared a video of himself on Instagram in which he beatboxes while Alec Baldwin-- THE Alec Baldwin-- raps over said beat. Watch it below.
According to the post:
This is me beatboxing while Alec Baldwin raps, he is for the people. Him, Alfred Woodard and Ali from Tribe came thru the city to help raise money for YCA, the organization that built and developed myself and @Malcolmlondon into the leaders we have become. Give it up for them. Beautiful leaders we can all learn from #Chicago#LongLiveTheYoung#YCA
Chance The Rapper + Alec Baldwin: