The cause of death for Steven “A$AP Yams” Rodriguez has been revealed. The New York City chief medical examiner has ruled that the A$AP Mob founder and  hip-hop tastemaker died of an acute mixed-drug intoxication, including opiates and benzodiazepine, according to The New York Times. Yams was found unresponsive in his Brooklyn apartment on… Source: RollingStone Link: A$AP […]

Nile Rodgers has released “I’ll Be There,” the lead single from the first Chic album in 23 years, It’s About Time. The track, a collaboration with house duo the Martinez Brothers, fits into the band’s classic disco-funk mold, utilizing a four-on-the-floor groove, soulful vocal harmonies, brash horn blasts and Rodgers’… Source: RollingStone Link: Nile Rodgers […]

M.I.A. spent the early-Aughts as a creative hybrid — a graphic designer, photographer, videographer and hipster fashionista living in London. When her friend Justine Frischmann, the onetime singer of Elastica, loaned her a Roland MC-505, she began writing clever tracks that mashed globally-aware lyrics with gyrating, inimitable dance beats. In 2004,… Source: RollingStone Link: 'Arular' […]

BOSTON (AP) — A Tony Award from the original Broadway production of “The Sound of Music” has fetched a lot of do-re-mi at auction. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Tony Award from 'Sound of Music' fetches ,750 at auction

As origin stories go, Striking Matches’ is a cute one. Symbolic, too. In a classroom full of college guitar majors, all the freshmen were asked to team up and prove their chops in front of the seasoned upperclassmen. A young woman from the Philadelphia suburbs was among the newbies, worried… Source: RollingStone Link: How Striking […]

Blur will end the dozen-year wait between studio albums April 27th when they release their reunion disc The Magic Whip, and after premiering first single “Go Out” during the album’s announcement party, Damon Albarn and company have shared a second track from their new LP, “There Are Too Many of Us.” As the… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]

Grammy-Award winning rapper Drake is teaming up with Sotheby's Contemporary Art Department on a new exhibition exploring the dialogue between music and art through the work of black American Contemporary artists. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Drake curates music for Sotheby's exhibition

The music service Inflight claims the label “changed its tune” after permitting use of its songs for years. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Universal Music Countersued In Battle Over In-Flight Music

The distributor behind Drake’s controversial concert film Drake’s Homecoming: The Lost Footage is suing the rapper for libel and other charges after he tweeted comments disavowing the movie. SpectiCast filed the suit in California on Wednesday, alleging libel, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage and interference with performance of contract. The suit… Source: RollingStone Link: Drake […]

LCD Soundsystem’s former leader James Murphy has found the perfect David Bowie song to cover for Noah Baumbach’s upcoming film about the growing pains of becoming middle-aged. Murphy gives a minimalist, instrumental take on the Station to Station track “Golden Years.” Listen to it below. Murphy’s cover, released via The Dissolve today, is… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]