It’s easy to make jokes about Macklemore, the white rapper from Seattle who blew up and scored a couple of #1 hits a decade ago. But whatever you think of his hits — or even his politics — Macklemore has shown himself to be the type of artist who can make actual political statements. As an independent artist, he&...

The Sheffield, UK indie-pop/”queer emo noise” band Slash Fiction released a new single called “Catastrophizing” in April, which boasted a pretty solid shout-along chorus and some quite nice lead guitar. A few days ago they followed it up with “Golden Hour,” an even better track that shi...

Super-producer Metro Boomin doesn’t rap, but he’s still become a key figure in the big-news recent feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. The opening shot in the whole saga was Kendrick’s verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That,” and it reportedly came about, at least in part, bec...

Adrienne from Brooklyn said she loved McCartney "with all her heart" in a famous 1963 clip, and now Macca has finally got back to herThe post Paul McCartney replies to fan Adrienne – 60 years after she declared her love for him appeared first on NME.

And so it continues. After Kendrick Lamar emerged from the shadows with the extremely angry Drake diss “Euphoria” this week, Drake responded with a video clip from a teen rom-com. Tonight, less than 24 hours after Kendrick hit him with another diss track, “6:16 In LA,” Drake has returned to the field of pl...