Stereogum — Tame Impala’s “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” has already been interpreted by Dave Harrington, Chrome Canyon, Memory Tapes, Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky, and the PS22 Kids Chorus, among others, and we’re still not sick of it. Now Arctic Monke... more info

Stereogum — In 2014 we appraise hip-hop on its forthrightness. Take, for example, the two front-runner Grammy-nominated hip-hop albums of 2013: Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid M.A.A.D. City and Macklemore’s The Heist. Both albums, in different ways, present up-fro... more info

Stereogum — The rap magazine XXL finds its biggest moment, culturally, when it unveils its not-quite-annual “freshman class” cover, grouping together a crew of up-and-coming rappers earmarked for stardom. Some of those rappers go on to actual stardom (Mackle... more info

Stereogum — In addition to the debut of that “new” Michael Jackson song, last night’s inaugural iHeartRadio Music Awards featured performances by Pitbull, Blake Shelton, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Shakira … wait, don’t close your tab yet: there were also ... more info

NME — LA rapper performs cover version at first ever iHeartMusic Awards last night (May 1) more info

Nialler9 — DJ Dahi produces a smooth R&B collaboration.The Songs From Scratch series has given us collaborations between Jacques Greene and Tinashe, Lunice and Angel Haze, Jeremih and Shlohmo and Chance the Rapper and Nosaj Thing. For the latest installment, K... more info

ContactMusic — Rapper Kendrick Lamar ditched a suit in favour of a baseball cap at the New York premiere of 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'.Among other arrivals were... more info

NME — Alicia Keys and Hans Zimmer also join the rapper on Fallon more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by P Squared Photography As you may have caught on our Instagram last night: "Holy mother. Supergroup of the year? Hans Zimmer. Kendrick Lamar. Alicia Keys. Johnny Marr and Pharrell Williams on drums jamming here at the Spider-Man 2 afterparty... more info

MTV.com News — 'They'll be getting something soon,' K-Dot tells MTV News. By Rob Markman, with reporting by Josh Horowitz more info