Brooklyn Vegan — Pitchfork Festival 2013 (more by James Richards IV) Pitchfork Festival is about to kick off in Chicago's Union Park today (7/18) and run through Sunday (7/20). If you're there, you might want to check the updated set times (sans Death... more info

Stereogum — Black Hippy colleagues Ab-Soul and Schoolboy Q mostly get together to make supremely zooted party anthems, and “Hunnid Stax,” from Ab-Soul’s new album These Days…, certainly fits the bill. Director Adam Roberts has filmed the two of them, as ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for all dates on the Mastodon, Gojira and Kvelertak tour, including the Long Island and NJ dates, go on Invisible Oranges presale today at 10 AM local time. Password HERE. Tickets for The Weeknd, Schoolboy Q and Jhene... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The Weeknd's recent shows have to tried to make spectacle out of haunting R&B minimalism. Now he'll have a much bigger stage to try it on.  more info

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Brooklyn Vegan — Danny Brown at MHOW in April (more by Dylan Johnson) Danny Brown, Schoolboy Q and Action Bronson are teaming up to play Hot 97 DJ Peter Rosenberg's third annual PeterPalooza on July 23 at Best Buy Theater in NYC. Tickets... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Weeknd announced a four-date tour with support from Schoolboy Q and Jhene Aiko that begins in NYC this September. The R&B singer's last time headlining NYC was a 2-night stand at Radio City but he's now making the... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — (via) Tickets to the Metronomy shows at Irving Plaza and Warsaw are on BrooklynVegan presale. Password HERE. Tickets for tonight's Schoolboy Q show at Central Park Summerstage are still available. Tickets for the Spoon show at Central Park Summerstag... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — White Lung in Austin in 2013 (more by Tim Griffin) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... White Lung, Pop. 1280, Uniform @ Saint Vitus White Lung's new record... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Ab-Soul's been talking about his new album These Days... for a while now, and it finally came out today (6/24) via TDE (not Interscope). Like his fellow Black Hippy members Schoolboy Q and Kendrick Lamar did with... more info