The annual hip-hop festival Rock the Bells is expanding to two days this year and has unveiled a lineup that should have fans clamoring for a third. The festival has scored a coup by booking the long-awaited live retu...
Jay-Z has jumped on the artist-curated festival bandwagon, as he's announced his first two-day event Made In America. Sponsored by Budweiser, the music-driven fest will take place in Philadelphia on Sept. 1-2 featurin...
Talk about bad timing, yo.
Less than a week following news of Adam "MCA" Yauch's premature death, a lawsuit brought against the Beastie Boys and their label Capitol Records has surfaced in a New York dist...
Andre 3000 has landed a dream role for his latest acting gig.
The Outkast rapper, who goes by his birth name Andre Benjamin as a thesp, will star as Jimi Hendrix in a new biopic about the legendary guitar player th...
Music fans were stunned and saddened by today's news of the death of Adam "MCA" Yauch, who passed away at age 47 after battling cancer.
Yauch's influence as one-third of the iconic hip-hop boun...
Fan-generated art (by which I mean not just pictures, but words and music and video) can be some of the best things you find on the Internet, and some of the most dire. The hip-hop songs of Adam WarRock, fortunat...
Rest easy, Barbz...she's back.
"*salutes the nation of Pinkslam* *hugs the barbz* *kisses the barbz*," wrote Nicki Minaj a few hours ago, in the first tweet following her agonizing week-long hiatus from T...
Music lovers, vinyl lovers, collectors, thrill seekers, passionate buyers... forget Valentine's Day. Record Store Day is a day of love.
Tomorrow (April 21) is the time to get limited run records, exclusives, first-r...
Rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs is currently the biggest baller in hip-hop.
At least that's according to a new list published by Forbes, which counts down the five wealthiest artists in the genre based on net ...
No matter your musical taste, Summer 2012 doubtless has a concert tour to suit your fancy. Partial to slick pop confectionery? Madonna and/or boy band One Direction should be right up your alley. An old school ro...
