Rolling Stone — Run the Jewels, Against Me!, Flying Lotus and Vince Staples will contribute new music to the sixth annual Adult Swim Singles series, which kicks off May 25th and runs every Wednesday until November. Rae Sremmurd, Mike-Will Made It, Earl S... more info

Consequence of Sound — LCD Soundsystem, M83, Thievery Corporation, Flying Lotus, Method Man & Redman, Earl Sweatshirt, and more. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Also: Angel Haze, Downtown Boys, Skunk Anansie, Skye & Ross of Morcheeba, Young Fathers, Shabazz Palaces, Thundercat, a superjam featuring members of Bad Brains, Fishbone and Living Colour, and more. Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — Earl Sweatshirt turned in one of our 40 best rap albums (and one of the best album titles of the year) with I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside. Perhaps testing out some new material for a 2016 project, the LA spitter previewed five new tracks ... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Earl Sweatshirt, "I Don't Like … I Don't Go Outside" (Tan Cressida/Sony): A meditation on the life of a 21-year-old rapper who earned fame while he was still in high school, Earl Sweatshirt's album rumbles with claustrophobic bass while midrange me... more info

Stereogum — There’s been a lot written about the so-called Drake effect, in which the Canadian superstar boosts the careers of young rappers by jumping on remixes of their songs or otherwise endorsing them. But there’s also something to be said for the idea ... more info

Stereogum — We’re seeing the beginnings of a pattern here: Taylor Swift makes a sleek, high-profile video that seems racially weird in some way or another, and that video’s director then steps forward to defend the video, and Swift, against charges of racism... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Grace Jones @ Roseland, 2012 (more by Dana [distortion] Yavin) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Afropunk Festival @ Commodore Barry Park It's day one of the... more info

Stereogum — Along with Thundercat and Flying Lotus, Earl Sweatshirt headlined this Saturday’s second annual Low End Theory Festival In Los Angeles. Earl took the opportunity to debut a couple of new songs, dark and booming things that reflect the angry, insula... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher It took him 16 years, but this past Friday Dr. Dre put out his third album, Compton, and it's way better than a Dr. Dre album in 2015 seemed like it would be. There's a lot of... more info