Stereogum — The Life Is Beautiful Music & Art Festival is bringing superstars, cult favorites, and rising talent to downtown Las Vegas this weekend. Among the lineup’s highlights: Stevie Wonder, Kendrick Lamar, Run The Jewels, Future Islands, Duran Duran, Snoo... more info

Stereogum — Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly featured a cameo from George Clinton, along with deep references to funk music as a whole. Lamar’s interest in funk and jazz seems to have renewed mainstream interest in those forms; Kamasi Washington’s jazz... more info

Stereogum — The Life Is Beautiful Festival descends upon downtown Las Vegas this weekend, and along with it the likes of Stevie Wonder, Kendrick Lamar, Death Cab For Cutie, Run The Jewels, and — oh, yeah — Stereogum. We and our SpinMedia Group affiliates Spi... more info

Stereogum — It’s ridiculous to talk about Black Hippy, the California rap supergroup, as if they were the Who, but let’s do it anyway. If Black Hippy are the Who, then Kendrick Lamar is the Pete Townshend, the showy creative genius who’s always testing him... more info

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L.A. Times - Entertainment — Kendrick Lamar has, in ways more subtle and quite explicit, spent his career in conversation with Tupac Shakur. more info

Stereogum — Have you watched Kendrick Lamar on Colbert? Because holy fuck. If you haven’t watched it, watch it. If you have watched it, watch it again. It’s really something. That’s the best piece of music-related video I’ve seen all week, easily. But re... more info

Stereogum — Last month, it was announced that the first band to perform on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert would be a Paul Simon tribute act called Troubled Waters. (“Band” as in “not a solo artist”; following the premiere night’s surprise guests th... more info

Stereogum — Jay Rock’s sophomore album has been a long time coming — after several pushed back release dates, it’s finally here, though. We’ve already heard a bunch tracks from it: “Gumbo,” the title track, “Money Trees Deuce,” “Easy Bake” (w... more info

Nialler9 — Lamar and his band played a To Pimp A Butterfly medley (or “The Very Horny Caterpillar” as Colbert called it) on the second episode of Stephen Colbert’s tenure at Late Show filling in permanently the big boots of Dave Letterman. It was a powerh... more info