L.A. Times - Entertainment — Kendrick Lamar shocked his fans last week by releasing his new album digitally a week before it was expected. more info

Soul Sides — Kendrick Lamar: Rigamortis (TDE, 2011, Section 80) No doubt, I’m loving To Pimp A Butterfly (just wrote a new piece about its L.A. connections) but especially with all the hyper-jazziness of parts of that new LP, I keep coming back to my intro ... more info

Reuters — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper Kendrick Lamar topped the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday for the first time, as his latest album became the second biggest seller of the year so far. more info

MTV.co.uk News — The 'To Pimp A Butterfly' star teamed up with Reebook for #GETPUMPED stunt! Watch here... more info

Stereogum — Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly has come in at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Top 200 chart. The album — which was officially released (with some snafus) on 3/15 — comes in with 363,000 equivalent album sales (actual sales + streaming) over the pa... more info

TMZ — Lamar did the gig to promote his new album and as part of a marketing campaign with Reebok. He had TONS of people along for the ride as he shut down the streets and rolled through the city. Richard Simmons would've LOVED this show! more info

Stereogum — If you wanted to see Kendrick Lamar play his first live show since the release of To Pimp A Butterfly, you had to run to catch it. Literally. Last night, Kendrick tweeted a location in L.A. and said to meet him there. When people got there, they were... more info

Stereogum — How can something so small and specific sound so huge? A week after Kendrick Lamar made a huge, sprawling, uncompromising album about what it means to be black in America, here comes Courtney Barnett with an album of songs about looking at roadkill o... more info

Mercury News, California — Sam Smith, Kendrick Lamar, Wilco, D'Angelo among the other top acts heading for Golden Gate Park. more info

Stereogum — Outside Lands has just announced the lineup for the eighth iteration of the San Francisco-based festival. This year’s headliners are Elton John, Mumford & Sons, and the Black Keys, and other top draws include Sam Smith, Kendrick Lamar, Wilco, D’A... more info