Brooklyn Vegan — The Sweetlife Festival comes to Columbia, MD's Merriweather Post Pavillion on May 30-31 with a lineup of Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, Pixies, Billy Idol, Phantogram, Charli XCX, Lucius, Vic Mensa, SZA, Raury, Sinkane, San Fermin, Goldlink, Bishop Nehr... more info

The Independent — Kendrick Lamar has paid homage to his hometown of Compton in the new music video for rumoured next single “King Kunta”. more info

Stereogum — Talk about an entrance: Kendrick Lamar debuted his new “King Kunta” video on a Beats-branded billboard in Times Square earlier tis evening, and it has now made its way online. We’ve already seen a short behind-the-scenes clip of the video shoot... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Kendrick Lamar's new album To Pimp A Butterfly is out now, and as a tweet from Beats By Dre points out, he'll be debuting the video for its track "King Kunta" today (4/1) at 6 PM on the Beats... more info

Reuters — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper Kendrick Lamar held onto the top spot of the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday, in a week that saw little change among the top-selling records. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Kendrick Lamar's new LP "To Pimp a Butterfly" was an instant conversation-shifter in pop music, and set records for debut-day streaming on Spotify. But the record very nearly had a dramatically different title. more info

The Independent — Kendrick Lamar’s new album may have broken streaming records and won him his first UK number one, but To Pimp A Butterfly was originally given a different title with quite the story behind it. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Outside Lands 2014 (more by Samantha Saturday) Outside Lands, which happens August 7-9 in San Francisco with Elton John, Mumford & Sons, The Black Keys, Kendrick Lamar, Wilco, D'Angelo, St. VIncent and more, announced its daily lineups today. ... more info

Nialler9 — My favourite songs of the month. Get the majority of them as a continuous playlists below. The songs Grimes – ‘REALiTi’ Jamie xx – ‘Loud Places’ Tame Impala – ‘Let It Happen’ Hudson Mohawke – ‘Very First Breath’ Girls Names... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Hot 97 Summer Jam returns to East Rutherford, NJ's MetLife Stadium on June 7 this year, and the lineup is now announced. Kendrick Lamar (who's played the main stage and the side stage before) is headlining this year, and... more info