Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Brooklyn rapper Jimi Tents won us over with his recent 5 O'Clock Shadow LP, and he's been seen around NYC lately opening for Curren$y and Vince Staples. Jimi will play his first headlining hometown show this month... more info

Stereogum — The Long Beach rapper Vince Staples made one of the year’s best albums, and he’s one of our smartest, most incisive musicians right now. So when Staples talks about the way rap music has lately been glorifying drug use, we should take it as somet... more info

Stereogum — I’ve seen Vince Staples perform three times this year, and the chronology of the shows is what made watching his headlining set at Music Hall Of Williamsburg last night so rewarding. The first was in June, a few weeks before Staples released debut ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Brooklyn rapper Jimi Tents recently released his 5 O'Clock Shadow album, a 14-track expanded version of his EP of the same name. It opens with an intro featuring Philly rapper Tunji Ige, who first caught our ear... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Vince Staples @ Theater at MSG in September (more by PSquared) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Dinosaur Jr. and "special guests" @ Bowery Ballroom One of... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Noise Pop Festival returns to various San Francisco venues from February 19 to 28, and they've got the quite the lineup so far. Reunited '90s bands American Football and Drive Like Jehu are billed alongside (noise?) pop singer Carly... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — About two-thirds of the way through Vince Staples’s 45-minute set at El Rey on Tuesday night, he asked his DJ, Westside Ty, to rate the audience. “What, it’s like a 6 or a 7?” “Maybe 7,” Ty said. And Staples responded, “Nah, 4.” This ... more info

Mercury News, California — Cave Singers, Kamasi Washington, Parquet Courts, Cayucas, Escort and The Thermals among other acts set to appear at 24th annual Noise Pop. more info

Stereogum — If Def Jam debut album Summertime ’06 was the only thing Vince Staples contributed to 2015, he’d be having a legendary year, but Staples is going above and beyond by becoming one of rap’s great cultural commentators. He’s had important things... more info

Stereogum — Vince Staples is 22 years old. He was born in 1993. When Illmatic and Ready To Die came out, he was a baby. Staples made one of the best rap albums of the year, by any metric. He put it together with No I.D., a producer who was making classic music w... more info