Lollapalooza 2024 wrapped on a high note Sunday night, with the welcome return of Blink-182, who last headlined the festival in 2017. According to organizers, more than 100,000 fans showed up at each of the four days (during Chappell Roan’s performance, it felt like all 100K from Day One showed …
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Now that his new album, Dark Times, is out and Netflix has renewed his TV series, Vince Staples can finally relax in the way Vince Staples relaxes best: by constantly working. This fall, after a European run, the rapper will tour North America, hitting festivals and mid-sized venues on a …
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Ten years after the release of his Def Jam debut, the Hell Can Wait EP, Vince Staples occupies an ambiguous middle-ground, stuck between platinum-certified arena status and the ephemeral virality that defines too much of the mainstream rap industry. It’s a space that he shares with a handful of others …
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Welcome to ourweekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Zach Bryan paints a moving picture of mourning on his first track off his upcoming album, Clairo returns with a charming summer slow burner, and Vince Staples is …
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Vince Staples says he wasn’t looking to drum up hype for his upcoming album, Dark Times. Over Zoom, he tells Rolling Stone that it was a bit of the opposite. He announced the project, out tomorrow, just a week before its release, and hasn’t opted for any of the typical …
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Vince Staples‘ upcoming sixth studio album will find the rapper running through a creative victory lap. Dark Times, out Friday, May 24, will add 13 new songs to his catalogue while taking stock of his growth as an artist over the past decade. “Shame on the Devil,” the first release …
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In one of the best episodes of The Vince Staples Show – a dark Netflix comedy following the fictionalized life of the titular rapper – Vince slowly but surely leverages a bank robbery he’s caught in the crosshairs of to his advantage. Perhaps this quiet doggedness is autobiographical; in reality, …
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Where Vince Staples goes, chaos follows. The first poster for The Vince Staples Show, the Netflix series premiering Feb. 15, features the rapper with a gnarly black eye — and its trailer finds him dodging bullets, greedy family members, and jail time. Still, Staples isn’t even a little fazed by …
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What a year for music—any of my top half-dozen or so could have been Number One some other year. But these are my faves, with pop idols, guitar bangers, rap poets, disco visionaries. All these albums keep giving up new surprises for me. The double-digit years are always pivotal for …
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The Grammys have a checkered relationship with rap, from not airing their major rap categories on the official Grammy telecast to infamous snubs like Macklemore over Kendrick and confusion over the actual parameters of rap that came to a head this fall with Nicki Minaj and Latto. There were fewer …
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