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August 3rd – 5th in Grant Park, Chicago: Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys, Black Sabbath, Jack White headline a very rock n roll weekned with Florence & The Machine, Bassnecta…

Coachella has officially announced the lineup for this year’s festival: Radiohead, The Black Keys, Bon Iver, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, M83, Arctic Monkeys, Girl Talk, The Weeknd, Buz…

All hail free music! There was a lot of quality material given away this year. Here’s 11 of our favorite mixtapes.

To conclude our coverage of everything next-level in 2011, these are the eleven most compelling “breakout” acts of the year.

As promised, The Weeknd released the final piece of the 2011 trilogy late last night. Echoes of Silence is nine tracks, including a genius cover of Michael Jackson’s “Dirty …

Until now the only videos The Weeknd has put out have been “unofficial,” but this one looks legit. The near eight minute epic from debut mixtape House Of Balloons is a lonel…

This Week: Drake is back with superstar guests; Swedish electronic outfit Korallreven’s debut; Pterodactyl is noisy and bright; 31 years of R.E.M.; A synth-phonic release from Tych…

Is R&B back? Or maybe our original concept of the genre is evolving and broadening. Here are five artists that showcase R&Bs current progression.

The first video from The Weeknd’s new mixtape, Thursday, it’s unclear whether or not it’s an official clip. The much anticipated release dropped last week.

Toronto R&B superstar The Weeknd has released the highly anticipated follow up to mega hit, House Of Balloons. Get the free mixtape, Thursday.

The idea of isolating artists based on region (let alone country) seems a tad backwards, but simply put, we’re in the midst of another Canadian wave of music.

Stereogum gives us a fantastic, two-volume mixtape, made just for summer. Featuring: The Weeknd, John Maus, YACHT, J Masics, Hooray For Earth, Cold Cave, Washed Out, and lots more….

A collection of sounds for sunshine, aligning the warm beats with the warm breeze.

If you’ve been listening to House of Balloons (I hope you have), you know the after-after party is the whole story. Visually, this is about as close as they can come to showing wha…

One of the most hyped mixtapes of the year so far, Houses Of Balloons features Toronto-based r+b butter-voice Abel Tesfaye. Beautiful and twisted jams that sample a variety of hips…