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Donald Glover wins song, record of the year but skips Grammys and does Google ad instead

February 11, 2019 at 8:58 a.m.

Less than an hour into the telecast, Google pulled the biggest troll of the Grammys so far. The tech giant scored an advertising cameo from one artist the Grammys couldn’t...

Pitchfork’s Ryan Schreiber shaped Internet music journalism and now leaves it behind

January 15, 2019 at 8:40 a.m.

For two decades, Pitchfork Media set the tone for music journalism in the internet era. Raucous, passionate, sometimes blinkered but always evolving, the site helped break acts like the Arcade...

Childish Gambino, Tame Impala (singer Kevin Parker, pictured) and Ariana Grande will headline Coachella 2019.

Coachella 2019: Childish Gambino, Ariana Grande and more continue the festival’s move toward the mainstream

January 3, 2019 at 8:50 a.m.

Childish Gambino, Tame Impala and Ariana Grande will anchor the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, set to run April 12-14 and again April 19-21 at Indio’s Empire Polo...

90% of recent Grammy nominees are men, study finds

December 14, 2018 at 8:12 a.m.

A new study on gender and racial figures in pop music proves the old James Brown refrain is still true: It's a man's man's man's world. The study, in part,...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

U2 and Kendrick Lamar advocate for empathy on new song ‘American Soul’

December 17, 2018 at 4:39 p.m.

U2 and Kendrick Lamar's new collaborative single, "American Soul," might sound a little familiar. Released Friday, the song is a riff and update on Lamar's track "XXX," which was previously...

Will the Las Vegas massacre change country music’s view of guns?

June 2, 2018 at 1:21 a.m.

Country music has long idealized the gun-owning lifestyle. From Johnny Cash in "Folsom Prison Blues" to Miranda Lambert's "Gunpowder and Lead" and Blake Shelton's "Granddaddy's Gun," the genre's stars have...

A backup vocalist works some dance moves as Proteje performs his style of contemporary reggae at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Coachella 2016: Vince Staples, Run the Jewels add an urgency to the day

December 17, 2018 at 6:03 p.m.

In a Sahara tent known for sensory overload and cut-loose fun, the Long Beach rapper Vince Staples delivered a bracing jolt of the reality behind Coachella's traditional escapism. "See this...

N.W.A.’s MC Ren hates the official trailer for ‘Straight Outta Compton’

June 16, 2018 at 4:58 p.m.

Just days after Ice Cube announced that an N.W.A. reunion (well, most of a reunion) would land at the BET Experience festival, one member of the group is lambasting the...

Gabe Saporta from Cobra Starship performs at the 2010 Warped Tour.

Warped Tour giving away free tickets to parents of under-18 attendees

April 5, 2019 at 6:06 a.m.

Warped Tour -- that perennial bastion of snotty teen punk -- used to be the last place parents wanted to spend a Saturday. Trudge around a dusty suburban parking lot...

DJ Mustard sets the beat for mainstream hip-hop and R&B

June 17, 2018 at 5:37 a.m.

On a quiet Tuesday night in September, in an overly air-conditioned Mid-City recording studio, DJ Mustard was alone and preparing to work. The L.A.-based producer, one of the defining figures...

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