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Mac Miller's record company has released a statement denying charges made in a lawsuit filed against the rapper over his 2010 track "Kool Aid and Frozen Pizza" Hip-hop veteran Lord Finesse is claimin (More...)

Halfway through his set at New York's Irving Plaza Killer Mike made an affirming proclamation "I do this shit for the whole fucking world" the Atlanta rapper said pointing to various people in the cro (More...)

After a break of nearly two years Vampire Weekend returned to the stage on Thursday night at the House of Blues in Cleveland The Brooklyn-based band debuted an upbeat as-yet-untitled new song at the s (More...)

A few hours after his rain-soaked performance at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago on Friday A$AP Rocky still can't come to grips with what went down midway through his set a few minutes after h (More...)

Despite electrifying sets by Skrillex Bassnectar and Amon Tobin there was no mistaking the fact that Camp Bisco 11 was centered around its host band the Disco Biscuits who performed six totally differ (More...)

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France's far-right National Front party will be filing a lawsuit against Madonna after the singer used Nazi imagery in association with a picture of its leader at her Paris concert on Saturday night t (More...)

Shortly before his Saturday-afternoon set at Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival Los Angeles-based producer Flying Lotus (aka Steve Ellison) spoke with Rolling Stone about his upcoming album which (More...)

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50 Cent became the latest artist to show support for rising R&B hotshot Frank Ocean – who revealed he fell in love with a man in a note posted on his website almost two weeks ago – dur (More...)

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Adam Levine and his mentees on the next season of The Voice will get a helping hand from Mary J Blige who will act as as his team's adviser on the hit show's upcoming third season "I've always been a (More...)

Madonna's got a new video out for the MDNA cut "Turn Up the Radio" a sun-soaked pop jam that is more than ready for dance floors In the clip besieged by paparazzi Madonna finds solace on her car radio (More...)

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