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With summer approaching fast, festival season has already been kicked off with Coachella and SXSW, and now it’s Hot 97s turn to impress with a line up for this year’s annual Summer Jam outdoor concert. Acts this year include the always impressive Kendrick Lamar, Chris Brown, Wu Tang and Miguel amongst others. [...]

Three-time Grammy Nominee and music engineering legend, Young Guru announces a 13-city tour where he’ll be sharing his knowledge on the game with college students across the United States. [...]

Howard and Guy Lawrence, more commonly known as talented production duo Disclosure, already have a mega few months lined up for themselves as they’re set to play huge American festivals South by Southwest and Coachella – but that’s not all. They’ll also be taking their sound on tour while they’re in the country as they [...]

Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky continued his concert blitz with a hype performance at the Scion ATV show at Public Assembly in Brooklyn last night. “Angels” and “Fashion Killa” were two of the tracks he performed from his acclaimed LONG.LIVE.A$AP album in front of an adoring crowd. Loud, brash and charismatic as always, Rocky’s stage shows [...]

Stalley might be from the small town of Massillon, Ohio, but he’s determined to give back to the communities where hip hop was born. The MMG rapper will be heading to Brooklyn on December 6th to perform at the Scholarich Foundation’s new fundraiser/book drive, which aims to help under-privileged local children by providing them with [...]

Harlem hip-hop duo Cannibal Ox, who took the underground scene by storm with their 2001 studio album The Cold Vein, will officially reunite to perform at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn on December 9. [...]

Whilst a number of leading artists from Rihanna to Redman have sent out musical messages of support to those affected by Hurricane Sandy, we finally have some news about a collective response from the musical community. [...]

Coldplay are teaming up with Jay-Z yet again for a special one-off performance at the Barclays Centre to ring in the new year. [...]

Chicago collective Kids These Days defies conventional preconceptions of categorization and genre with the release of their 15 track project, Traphouse Rock. Take track three for example, “Ghetto,” as the talented clique engages listeners in a tug-of-war between genres, transitioning from swing jazz to acoustic folk to hard rock and back within a matter of [...]

Kicking off in New Haven, Connecticut on November 11th, Joe Budden will shortly be embarking on The Second First Impression tour; a ten-stop journey promoting the New Jersey native’s upcoming mixtape, A Loose Quarter, which is due to drop on Black Friday (Nov. 23). [...]