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

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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