Soul Sides — It’s been a while since I voted in the Village Voice’s annual Pazz and Jop poll but for whatever reason, I decided to do so this year even though I didn’t have a literal top 10 (just top 8). The way Pazz and Jop works is that your picks are ... more info

Idolator — Yup. more info

Stereogum — Earlier today, Chance The Rapper shared an Apple Music playlist called “Yup” — one that, according to Chance, he put together specifically for the bath. And with that playlist, we learn that Chance, like so many of us, enjoys listening to Gucci... more info

Idolator — The liner notes to the Black Friday physical edition were posted. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Kanye West, Beyonce, Solange, Chance the Rapper, Radiohead, Angel Olsen, Frank Ocean, A Tribe Called Quest, Bon Iver, and David Bowie all make multiple appearances. Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — Although it’s been almost four months since the release of Frank Ocean’s sophomore LP Blonde, we’re still not finished parsing all of the album’s many mysteries. Among a number of other puzzles that remain (Is it Blond? Blonde? Both?), we had... more info

Dlisted — A little over a week after Kanye West was released from the hospital, where he was being treated for an alleged mental breakdown, he appeared in b-hole-hugging jeggings and a dome full of blond hair at a furniture exhibit. Page Six says that Kanye s... more info

MSN Music — “I think the infrastructure of the awarding system and the nomination system and screening system is dated,” Frank Ocean said in November, by way of explaining why he did not submit his latest offerings, Endless and Blonde, for Grammy considerati... more info

AllHipHop — CHECK OUT WHO ELSE WAS SELECTED FOR THE TOP 25 ALBUMS, SONGS & BEST OF BEATS PLAYLIST more info

New York Times — Beyoncé and Bowie, Chance the Rapper and Radiohead, Frank Ocean and Leonard Cohen — and much, much more. more info