The 2016 BET Hip-Hop Awards are approaching and the Republic roster is dominating the nomination list with Drake leading in almost every category. Checkout the nominee list below. The 2016 BET Hip-Hop Awards will be taped on Sept. 17 at Atlanta’s Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre and premiere on Oct. 4 (8 p.m. ET/PT). A host… Keep Reading
Temple of the Dog – the Seattle supergroup featuring Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell, Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, and Mike McCready, and drummer Matt Cameron – has reunited and will tour for the first time ever since forming in 1990. On September 30th UMe will release a special Temple of the Dog 25th anniversary reissue collection of… Keep Reading
“The worst thing I could possibly do is be in a band,” says Black Foxxes frontman, Mark Holley, with a dry laugh. “For my mental health, for my physical health… For everything, really. But something always drags me back to writing and performing. It’s like there’s something wired in me.” One listen to Black Foxxes’… Keep Reading
The Dream Koala Remix of Nouvelle Vague’s cover of the Joy Division classic “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is premiering now at PopMatters; stream/share it HERE. PopMatters notes that, “This airy Dream Koala remix reenvisions the tune as an ethereal, dreamy bit of ambient chill-out,” and hails the song as “very sleek and trippy.” The… Keep Reading
Setting cutting social commentary to a genre-clash of sounds linked by grooves, loops and insistent percussion, Uk band Formation have already been nominated for Best New Artist at the NME Awards and earned the backing of influential DJ Zane Lowe. As they complete a summer crammed with killer festivals sets – Glastonbury, Field Day, Lovebox… Keep Reading
Chasms are set to release On The Legs Of Love Purified on October 14 via felte. The album is availabe to pre-order now on CD, LP & digitally in the felte Online Store. Today, the band has shared “Black Ice” from the forthcoming release with Stereogum. About the song the band says, “Lyrically, this song most represents… Keep Reading
Looks like there’s a new Metallica album out. According to Metallica.com the San Francisco-based band has concluded “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct,” the long awaited next Metallica studio album that is the follow-up to “Death Magnetic!” will come out November 18th of this year. The album is comprised of two discs, with nearly 80 minutes of music. Above… Keep Reading
The supergroup featuring members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill—have shared the second song from their debut EP The Party’s Over. It’s called “No Sleep Til Cleveland,” based on the Beastie Boys’ classic “No Sleep Till Brooklyn.” Listen below: Keep Reading
Third Man Books has announced the release of “TOTAL CHAOS: The Story of The Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop.” The book is the first time the story of this seminal band has been told entirely in Pop’s own words. Author Jeff Gold and contributor Johan Kugelberg, noted music historians and collectors, spent two… Keep Reading
Drake‘s Summer Sixteen tour rolled into the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit Tuesday night, where the Motor City’s own Eminem joined the rapper onstage. According to a report by Billboard magazine, during a performance of their 2009 joint hit “Forever,” Eminem jumped onto the stage squashing a feud that had been going on for some time… Keep Reading
