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

Stereogum — With apologies to Atlanta’s Birthday Bash, New York radio station Hot 97’s annual Summer Jam show is still the gold standard for annual rap spectacles. Once a year, Hot 97 takes over New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, bringing some of rap’s bigges... more info

Stereogum — Last week SBTRKT dropped the new song “FLAREtWO” indicating that a new project might be on the horizon. Considering he dropped two more tracks over the weekend, that seems like a fairly strong assumption at this point. Or maybe he was so inspired... more info

Core News — Here is this weeks International edition of the Gilles Peterson Worldwide show, #939 I believe. This two hour show is syndicated to different radio stations. “Pour refermer convenablement ce mois de mars et accueillir à bras ouverts avril, Gilles ... more info

Stereogum — Way before the frenzy surrounding the release of To Pimp A Butterfly erupted, Kendrick Lamar caused another mini-stir when he performed a moving, untitled, jazzy, funky song as the last musical guest on The Colbert Report. One of his collaborators on... more info

Stereogum — “King Kunta” is a knotty and troubled song. But in the context of Kendrick Lamar’s complicated-as-fuck new album To Pimp A Butterfly, it’s also a rare burst of funk and swagger. It makes sense, then, that “King Kunta” will be the next tra... more info

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L.A. Times - Entertainment — Kendrick Lamar shocked his fans last week by releasing his new album digitally a week before it was expected. more info

Soul Sides — Kendrick Lamar: Rigamortis (TDE, 2011, Section 80) No doubt, I’m loving To Pimp A Butterfly (just wrote a new piece about its L.A. connections) but especially with all the hyper-jazziness of parts of that new LP, I keep coming back to my intro ... more info