De La Soul

Gorillaz are throwing their own Demon Dayz Festivals in Chicago and the UK, and the UK lineup has just been announced. The lineup looks a lot like the list of guests on their new album Humanz…

Jay Z, Red Hot Chili Peppers & Gorillaz headline, with Future, Nas, Weezer, Run the Jewels, Erykah Badu, M.I.A., LL Cool J, Action Bronson, TV on the Radio, Big Boi, Broken Social Scene, Migos, Blood Orange and more.

It was not your typical Gorillaz show in more ways than one. The most obvious was that it was happening at Rough Trade, a small venue whose floor space is probably smaller than most of the stages the band usually play…

Life is Beautiful festival returns to Downtown Las Vegas September 22-24. The 2017 edition is headlined by Gorillaz, Chance the Rapper, Muse, Blink-182, and Lorde. The bill also includes The xx, MGMT, Haim, Vince Staples, Schoolboy Q, Pusha T, AFI and No Doubt supergroup DREAMCAR, Cirque Du Solei, Ideas featuring Bill Nye, and more.

Guests included Noel Gallagher, Savages’ Jehnny Beth, Danny Brown, Pusha T, Kelela, De La Soul, Benjamin Clementine, Anthony Hamilton, Kali Uchis and more.

Grace Jones, Mavis Staples, Danny Brown, De La Soul, Pusha T, Kelela, Vince Staples & more appear on the first Gorillaz album in six years.

Solange, Mastodon, Ryan Adams, Migos, Rae Sremmurd & more

Solange, Mastodon, Ryan Adams, Migos, Rae Sremmurd & more

This year’s Osheaga Fest includes The Weeknd, Solange, Father John Misty, The Shins, Belle and Sebastian, Run the Jewels, Broken Social Scene, De La Soul, Danny Brown, Angel Olsen, Little Dragon, Car Seat Headrest, Cloud Nothings, Beach Slang, and more.

While he may not be a household name, his jazzy, groovy, lounge-y records from the late ’60s were a well that ’90s-era hip hop would go to again and again, his music being sampled on records by Lauryn Hill, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, DJ-Shadow, De La Soul, The Beatnuts, Dr Dre.