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Thundercat made a song for Listerine. As Pitchfork points out, the musician composed an original track for the mouthwash brand’s new Whoa Collection, a collaboration that also includes creative collective Compound and artist King Saladeen, who illustrated the design for a Listerine bottle that’s available in stores now.  » Read More

For the first time in more than a year, the #1 single in America is a rap song. Doja Cat’s “Paint The Town Red” has ascended from #3 to top the Billboard Hot 100 this week, becoming her second #1 hit and ending a much-talked-about chart draught for her genre.  » Read More

Lately I’ve been reading a lot of books about women on the verge — Penelope Mortimer’s The Pumpkin Eater, Raymond Kennedy’s Ride A Cockhorse, D. G. Compton’s The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (all courtesy of my New York Review Of Books obsession) —  » Read More

The MTV Video Music Awards will take place tomorrow night, and the ceremony will end with another celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. This one will take the form of a medley featuring performances from DMC, Doug E. Fresh, Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, and Nicki Minaj.  » Read More

Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo reunited with his former band Suicidal Tendencies when they opened for Metallica on Saturday night at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Trujillo came out to perform “I Saw Your Mommy,” a track that appeared on the band’s 1983 debut album and that Trujillo re-recorded with the group while he was in the band between 1989 and 1995.  » Read More

Killer Mike made an appearance on the latest episode of Billions, which aired on Showtime this past Thursday. In the episode, Mike Prince — one of the shows main characters, played by Corey Stoll — is a billionaire investor running for president, and he goes to a Killer Mike listening party with a loose plan to seek an endorsement from the rapper,  » Read More

If you are younger than 40, there is a very good chance that the words “Madder Rose” will mean absolutely nothing to you. They might mean nothing to you if you’re over 40, too, but that just means that you weren’t reading, like, Magnet and CMJ and the pre-MySpace-emo version of Alternative Press every month.  » Read More

We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.  » Read More

Jason Thomas Gordon, who fronts the LA rock band Kingsize, is about to publish The Singers Talk, a new book of interviews with some of the most iconic and distinctive lead singers in music. Gordon got the idea after moving from drums to lead vocals and realizing how tough the job is.  » Read More