Stereogum — New Look Wireless Festival kicks off today and goes through the weekend in London at Finsbury Park, and the entire event will be livestreamed via Yahoo. Headliners for the festival include Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Nicki Minaj, and other acts perfor... more info

Stereogum — Hey, look! It’s a summit meeting of people who routinely turn enthusiastically horny nursery rhymes into irresistible rap-radio gold! R&B adventurer Ty Dolla $ign has his official debut album Free TC coming out this fall. We’ve already heard him ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the Garbage (playing their debut in full) and Torres show at Kings Theatre go on venue/Live Nation presale at 10 AM (anyone know the password?). Tickets for the Rancid and H2O shows at Terminal 5 go on... more info

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Stereogum — This is a weirdly huge day for British festival-pop stars on American daytime television. If you watched TODAY, you got to see Charli XCX. And if you switched over to Good Morning America Florence Welch’s howls might’ve knocked you right out of y... more info

Stereogum — I once went to one of the TODAY show’s free outdoor morning shows in New York, mostly because it seemed like a thing to write about. It’s an incredibly strange experience. You’re in this smaller-than-it-looks space between buildings, surrounded... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Mimi Hong The Weeknd / Vic Mensa / crowd Sweetlife Festival went down this past weekend at Columbia, MD's Merriweather Post Pavillion. We already posted day 1 pictures of Billy Idol, Kendrick Lamar and more. Now we've got... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher photo: Screaming Females at Rough Trade last week (more by Ryan Muir) This past February, news went around the internet that Charli XCX recorded a punk rock cover of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off." Not to be... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Synth legend Giorgio Moroder's new album, Déjà Vu, is out June 16 and features guest appearances by Britney Spears, Charli XCX, Kelis, Mikky Ekko, Sia, Kylie Minogue and others. You can get a taste of the whole thing via... more info

The Daily Mail — Party duo Rita Ora and Charlie XCX were among the most fragile in appearance when they emerged in the French coastal town today. more info