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Youth Lagoon Announces Summer Tour Dates

In support of his latest album, the excellent Wondrous Bughouse, Trevor Powers aka Youth Lagoon has announced a serious of tour dates. Kicking things off tonight in Vancouver, B.C., Powers will be making his way around... Read more »

Paris Hilton is Cash Money Records’ Latest Signee

If you’re currently feeling all of the feelings right now, we don’t blame you. Paris Hilton’s cameo in Rich Gang’s video for “Tapout” was bizarre. Random, even. Well, as it turns out, not so. Miss Hilton... Read more »

James Blake Performs Several Tracks Live on KEXP

James Blake has been dominating 2013 with the release of Overgrown, the long-awaited follow-up to his 2011 self-titled debut. Aside from recently garnering the honor of being chosen as P&P’s song of the year so far, he... Read more »

An Update on Justin Bieber’s Pet Monkey

In March, Justin Bieber’s pet monkey got detained in Germany after the pop star failed to secure the proper documents. Today, we get an update on the situation. According to Billboard, customs spokesman Thomas Meister confirmed that... Read more »

Death Grips Announce Summer Tour Dates

Don’t worry, North Americans. Death Grips didn’t forget about you. The collective has announced a set of North American tour dates for this summer that will connect their appearances at Sasquatch, Orion Music Festival, Bonnaroo, and... Read more »

James Blake Announces Fall North American Tour Dates

James Blake just finished up the first leg of his North American tour in support of his excellent Overgrown, but he’s already shared the dates for when he returns to the continent this fall. Blake will... Read more »

The Week on Twitter with Youth Lagoon, Kid Cudi, and Odd Future

This week on Twitter, reactions to Daft Punk, Kanye West, jokes, opinions, and a snapchat of Taco from Odd Future taking a poop. Just another week in the life of 140 characters or less. Here is... Read more »

Did Daft Punk Work on Kanye West’s New Track “Black Skinhead”?

Last night Kanye West performed two new tracks on Saturday Night Live, and today a contributing editor at Rolling Stone has pointed out that his interview with Daft Punk alludes to their collaboration with Yeezy. My... Read more »

Is Kanye West’s New Album Called Yeezus?

And just like that, without any warning, we’ve officially entered Yeezy Season. After getting everyone’s undivided attention last night through premiering “New Slaves” at 66 different locations, Rap-Up is now reporting that Kanye West‘s sixth LP... Read more »

Kanye West to Premiere New Material On 66 Buildings in 10 Major Cities

Kanye West has never done things in a conventional manner, and he sure as hell isn’t about to start. Earlier tonight, ‘Ye tweeted the following: These cities include New York, L.A., Paris, London, as well as... Read more »

Looking for Good Pick Up Lines? Try Rap Lyrics

If you’re at all familiar with the latest in dating (or perhaps booty call) app technology, you’ve probably have heard of the latest frontier for your e-hook up needs, Tinder. Perhaps you’ve even used it. If... Read more »

Check Out These Posters of Musicians Reimagined As DC Superheroes

It’s always incredible when your favorite things overlap. Fans of both DC Comics and post-punk/new wave musicians of the past might be interested in Brazilian designer Butcher Billy’s posters of such artists as Morrissey and Billy... Read more »

Drake Confirms James Blake and Frank Ocean for OVO Fest

Lately, music festivals have been stacking line-ups with artists from all ends of the spectrum. We’ve seen some huge rosters, but for his fourth OVO Fest, Drake goes for quality over quantity. For now, he’s announcing... Read more »

Rock The Bells 2013 Lineup to Include Eazy-E and Ol’ Dirty Bastard as Holograms

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Rock the Bells Music Festival. To ensure that this will be one to remember, the festival’s got something special up its sleeve: their lineup will include the late Eazy-E... Read more »

Diplo Reacts to the New Daft Punk Album

Daft Punk‘s new album has been available for streaming for a bit over 24 hours now, and a lot has been said about it already. Perhaps one of the more interesting reactions to the album is... Read more »