You didn’t like U2’s new free album showing up on your iPhone? Neither did Tyler the Creator. In a hilarious multiple tweet rant, Tyler (@fucktyler) almost singe-handedly made ‘F*ck Bono’ trending on Twitter while venting over the album’s promotion on through Apple.
Canadian electro-pop singer/songwriter/producer Claire Boucher, known to most as Grimes, has officially scrapped her newest album. In an interview with The New York Times, Grimes discussed her follow-up album to 2012’s Visions and why both the project and her creative process had to be abandoned. She also discussed her boycott of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
Big Sean has been hinting all week that we should expect new ‘GOOD’ music. Today Sean dropped 4 new tracks, which feature production by Kanye West, Key Wane, Nate Fox, and MikeWillMadeIt. The songs, titled ‘I Don’t F*ck With You’, ‘4th Quarter’, ‘Jit/Juke’, and ‘Paradise’ were posted on the G.O.O.D. music artist’s Soundcloud.
Chance the Rapper took to his Instragram today to preview some of his new and never before heard music. However, there no details yet on the when we can expect to hear more but the snippets were tracks in collaboration with The Social Experiment (a producer group comprised of Nico Segal, Nate Fox, and Peter CottonTale). With fans hungry for an opportunity to finally buy a physical copy of a Chance the Rapper project (as he as only released free mixtapes), these snippet will have to tide us all over meanwhile.
The city of Chicago took a step towards public health and wellness Wednesday by banning smoking in public parks, a city where restaurants and bars have been smoke free for several years. Although this is the next step to making the citizens of Chicago curb their unhealthy smoking habits, will there be a negative health effect for music festival goers?
In support of her #1 album My Everything, Ariana Grande has announced her upcoming tour produced and promoted exclusively by LiveNation, titled The Honeymoon Tour. Grande will hit stops in New York, Chicago, California, Canada and many other cities near you (check out the jump for dates and ticket info).
In promotion of his upcoming mixtape STN MTN / KAUAI, Childish Gambino sat down with Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club. During the interview Gambino spoke about his friendship with Jaden Smith, ‘Twitter activism’, white privilege and a number of topics.