The Independent — While Odd Future may have disbanded, its members are keeping the OFWGTA spirit alive and well. more info

Stereogum — Earl Sweatshirt just kicked off his Ready To Love Now Tour a couple of days ago in New Zealand. At Earl’s show in Auckland last night, some guy crashed the stage and grabbed Earl from behind, who responded by throwing a couple of punches. Trash Tal... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Plenty of great hip hop shows in NYC are getting all the time. We don't get a chance to write about all of them, so here's a roundup of some recently-announced stuff coming up: Blog-hyped rapper Father... more info

Stereogum — Producers/MCs the Alchemist and Oh No met back in 2010 and formed hip-hop psych project Gangrene. Since then, the duo has a slew of albums and EPs and brought together Earl Sweatshirt and Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring for the latest Grand Theft... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — In addition to the Made In America-presented Mary J Blige show that happened last week and the second TBA one-day NYC show, the Jay Z-curated Budweiser Made In America festival returns to Philly Labor Day Weekend. It happens September... more info

Stereogum — I always had a vague sense that Tyler, The Creator and Vince Staples didn’t get along, mostly because Staples rapped on a whole lot of Earl Sweatshirt and Mike G tracks back in the day but never joined Odd Future. But the two of them sure looked ha... more info

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L.A. Times - Entertainment — In the germinal stages of a musical movement, it's hard to know whether a particular sound will live for a month, a year or a decade. Whether a new scene will influence a neighborhood, a city or the world, whether the ideas morph into something bigge... more info

Stereogum — When Odd Future came onto the scene six years ago, the L.A. rap crew came off as a tight unit. Since then, the different members have grown into solo artists, and their paths seem to cross only incidentally. No Odd Future members guested on Tyler, Th... more info

The Independent — Releasing your album online unexpectedly is the in thing right now. It started with Beyoncé, was carried on by Drake, and then copied by Kendrick Lamar, Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler, the Creator. Now, it’s ASAP Rocky’s turn. more info