NME — Rapper Future also appears on new song more info

NME — Lamar's third album is set for release this autumn more info

NME — Television, Kendrick Lamar and Ty Segall were also among those playing the last night of the Spanish festival more info

Stereogum — Twin Sister spent the early part of this decade developing a reputation as “Long Island’s dreamiest dream pop band” before saturating pop culture in unexpected ways such as being sampled on a Kendrick Lamar song and singer Andrea Estella co-sta... more info

NME — Lamar pulled out as the Manchester show clashed with his own tour more info

KEXP Seattle — As a part of Australian radio station Triple J’s “Like a Version” cover series, Arctic Monkeys took on Tame Impala‘s standout hit “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards.” This song has been covered and embellished by so many artists, including ... more info

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