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With the new Thursday, released just five months after House of Balloons, the Weeknd struggles to keep up with the hype treadmill
Quality vs. quantity
Tha Carter IV’s surprising first week sales estimates
Detroit rapper Danny Brown drops “XXX.”
The Miami-based producer has a team of crazy millionaires, but the Detroit MC only needs himself
The MCs rap about Lil Wayne, getting crowds hyped, and shaking it faster and harder.
Music Critics’ Choices and other notable shows: the Julian Lage Group, the Ben Allison Band, Lil Wayne, Kurt Vile & the Violators, Death and the Powers, Off!, and more
This week’s Early Warnings include Diplo, the Felice Brothers, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj, Rise Against and Bad Religion, Rusko, Thin Lizzy, Tune-Yards, Wye Oak, and Yes.
The best 1900s album yet, a comprehensive guide to the Umbrella Music Festival, and more
Watch this rappin’ granny destroy “A Milli” forever.
Freeway may be a senior citizen by hip-hop standards, but he won’t be put out to pasture.
Because no list of albums could sum up what’s happened to music in the past ten years
He’s not the best MC and he’s not the worst, but Gucci Mane is crazy enough to put out four albums’ worth of free material in seven days and that’s good enough for me.
The antidepressant qualities of Nyle’s video for “Let the Beat Build”
