Gorilla vs. Bear — We're teaming up again with our TX homies at LEVITATION to offer one more chance to win deluxe weekend passes for this year's fest, which takes place in just a few weeks down in Austin. Much has been made about this year's incredible l... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Tim Griffin Kendrick Lamar / Flying Lotus / HEALTH / U.S. Girls To the great relief of ticket holders, festival organizers, music bloggers and the hip-hop gods themselves, Kendrick lived up to the hype. Giving the rapper a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the six Adele shows at Madison Square Garden go on sale today at 10 AM. Tickets for the Maxwell and Nas shows at Barclays Center and Prudential Center go on Live Nation presale today at 10 AM.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Flying Lotus at Lollapalooza 2015 (more by James Richards IV) Flying Lotus didn't release an album in 2015, but he was still a wildly prevalent figure in music all year. He formed the supergroup WOKE with Thundercat and Shabazz... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Austin's Levitation Festival already announced a few of its 2016 performers, including Brian Wilson performing Pet Sounds, plus Animal Collective, Flying Lotus, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Sleep, Lee Scratch Perry, Ty Segall, Black Mountain, and Un... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher A couple weeks ago, prolific glitch hop producer Daedelus and NYC-via-Santa Monica jazz group Kneebody (who also recently collaborated with Kimbra) released their collaborative album as Kneedelus on Flying Lotus' label Brainfeeder. D... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The 58th Annual Grammy Awards nominees have been announced. Album of the Year nominees include Alabama Shakes for Sound & Color, Kendrick Lamar for To Pimp A Butterfly, Chris Stapleton for Traveller, Taylor Swift for 1989 and The Weeknd... more info

Stereogum — Berlin producer DJ Paypal is the most recent addition to Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label, though he’s been around for a while. A few months back, he shared “Awakening,” the first cut from his new EP, Sold Out, and today he gives us another tr... more info

Stereogum — Kamasi Washington is having a huge 2015. The young LA saxophonist’s work on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly earned a spotlight for The Epic, the rightly titled 3xLP experimental jazz opus he released on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label back... more info

Stereogum — Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label is one of the most fascinating indies out there these days; its roster is less about a centered aesthetic than about FlyLo’s own bugged-out tastes. (Word to Kamasi Washington’s stunning astral jazz triple-LP The ... more info