ContactMusic — PERRY FARRELL's inaugural Lollapalooza festival in Chile is kicking off with a big bang - THE KILLERS, KANYE WEST and his band JANE'S ADDICTION will headline the 2011 event.The rocker has teamed up with Chile's Lotus Producciones, WME and C3 Presents... more info

Perez Hilton — He's got bills to pay! Kanye West was the big performer at the sweet sixteen birthday party for George Condo's daughter at the Standard Hotel in NYC on Saturday night. Maybe the rapper did the gig for free? Because he's cool like that! Condo is a pai... more info

NME — Las Vegas band join Kanye West and The Flaming Lips for festival comeback more info

411 Mania — Plus Thirty Seconds To Mars, Deftones, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Flaming Lips and more... more info

melophobe — The last full week of January has been fruitful in producing a multitude of entertaining, thought-provoking and, at times, strange videos for me to share with you.  I also had the great pleasure of finding more hip-hop and rap oriented videos, since... more info

Guardian Music — An MA in the Beatles? Pfft! We're all PhDs in the Velvet Underground here on guardian.co.uk/music. In other news ... Kele and Patti Smith are writing books, one of which is 'erotic'Five things we learned from this week's music news•There are univer... more info

VH1 Blog — VH1 TV Shows | Music Videos | Celebrity Photos | News & Gossip It’s tough to think of an artist who had a more successful 2010 than Nicki Minaj. When the year began, she had built up a decent reputation on the undeground mixtape circuit, but her ... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Emilio Rojas decides to drop some bars over Kanye West’s & Jay-Z’s new music single.   a2a_linkname="Emilio Rojas – H.A.M."; a2a_linkurl="http://www.thehiphopchronicle.com/2011/01/28/emilio-rojas-h-a-m/"; a2a_hide_embeds=0; a2a_show_title=1; more info

Popeater — Filed under: Music News, Troublemakers, Kanye West With Kanye West set to headline the final night of three-day sold-out music festival Coachella in April, the only question is whether the mercurial rapper/producer/Twitterer will spoil his own big mo... more info

Starpulse — Elton John is urging music fans not to "ridicule" rappers, insisting stars such as Kanye West and Eminem are "a phenomenon". The Rocket Man, who collaborated with West for a track on the hip-hop s... more info