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Despite Kanye West’s best efforts to tank his career, his Vultures 1 campaign with Ty Dolla $ign continues to be a commercial success. The album debuted at #1 last month, and now it has yielded a #1 single.  » Read More

Big Thief singer-songwriter Adrianne Lenker’s new solo album Bright Future is dropping next week, but she’s got another new release out today. A six-song demos collection called i won’t let go of your hand is available now at Bandcamp, to buy but not to stream.  » Read More

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Peter A. Berry is a former XXL staffer who’s been a writer-editor for close to 10 years. An aspiring tortured genius, he’s a lifelong rap fan and lover of all things dope, and if there’s a way to write about something, he’s typically game. Tap in with him for Say What’s Real,  » Read More

I can tell I’m getting older because the nostalgia tours are pandering exceptionally hard to me right now. I mean, look at this shit: Weezer will head out this fall to celebrate 30 years of their self-titled debut LP, aka the Blue Album. They’re playing the record in full,  » Read More

The British band 10cc started in 1972, and they released nine richly produced albums in quick succession before breaking up in 1983. The band scored three chart-topping hits in the UK, and one of those songs, the spaced-out and vaguely unsettling pop masterpiece “I’m Not In Love,” was also a huge US hit.  » Read More

“Shout out to Biggie Smalls! It’s Biggie Smalls Day in Brooklyn!” 51-year-old Patrick Earl Houston screams, to my great relief, as he stalks the stage in front of a capacity crowd at Elsewhere in the northeast corner of Brooklyn. It’s March 9, at one time the equivalent of a bank holiday in New York — 27 years to the day the city lost Christopher Wallace,  » Read More

Paul McCartney, the Eagles, Pitbull, and more are playing a Jimmy Buffett tribute concert that will take place next month at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Buffett passed away last year at the age of 76, and a posthumous album came out not long after, which features collaborations with McCartney,  » Read More

The Philadelphia heavy shoegaze band Nothing has been around for a little more than a decade now, and they’ve put together a very serious catalog — one that includes the full-length Full Of Hell collab When No Birds Sang, which just came out a few months ago.  » Read More