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Petal, who won us over at CMJ and released the very good Shame on Run For Cover this year, just wrapped up a few Northeast dates. They opened a few stops of Bayside’s holiday tour, including NJ’s Stone Pony last night (12/22), and they played The Menzingers and Tigers Jaw’s holiday show in Scranton over the week…

Like last year, The FADER have listed their favorite tracks of the year. They picked 107, “because 100 just wasn’t enough.” It’s got two Drake songs in the top 10, and a Skepta song cracks it too (grime in general is pretty well-rep…

Joey Bada$$ & Pro Era, Flatbush Zombies and The Underachievers have a big Central Park SummerStage show on July 7 coming up (tickets). That show ends at 10 PM, but Pro Era, Flatbush Zombies and The Underachievers will also play another show later that night at Highline…

Hot 97 Summer Jam returns to East Rutherford, NJ’s MetLife Stadium on June 7 this year, and the lineup is now announced. Kendrick Lamar (who’s played the main stage and the side stage before) is headlining this year, and the rest of the main stage includes Big Sean, Fabolous, Meek Mill, Ty Dolla $ign, Childish Gambino and m…

The FADER always has some year-end coverage, but for the past 15 years they didn’t publish a ranked year-end list. This year however, they ranked their 116 favorite songs of 2014 (find out why) and it’s a diverse list that manages to sing the praises of iLoveMakonnen, Tinashe, Alex G, Florida Georgia Line, Enrique Iglesias, Bleachers, Ricky Eat Acid, YG, Toni Braxton & Babyface, Nothing, Grimes, Parquet Courts, Run the Jewels and Grouper all in the same damn list…

This year, the 2015 Grammy nominations are being revealed gradually on CBS This Morning. A few categories have already been announced, with a lot more on the way, and we’ll have to wait for tonight’s A Very Grammy Christmas special to find out the Album of the Year nominees…

Kendrick Lamar at Roseland in February (more by Dylan Johnson) We recently posted that the Hot 97 Summer Jam “Festival Village” lineup (aka the side stage in the parking lot), which features Action Bronson, Joey Bada$$, A$AP Ferg, Smoke DZA, Bodega Bamz, Troy Ave, and m…

As you can see above, Municipal Waste reacts to the “fashionable punk jacket” worn by R&B vocalist Chris Brown which, as Tony from Municipal Waste points out, is eerily similar to one worn by ex-girlfriend Rihanna on the back cover of her brand new album, Unapologetic, which was released today (11/20). I…