It tends to be a pretty good time when The Smoking Gun unearths these rocker tour riders. Mostly because we get to laugh at musicians' uncensored, exorbitant, diva-like demands and feel pretty good that we're nowhere near that silly as we wash down Cheetos with swigs of our Big Gulps at our sweet cubicles in offices where people never remember o...

There's been no shortage of posthumous releases directly from and otherwise related to the late James "J Dilla" Yancey recently, but the newest one is especially close to home, as in Dilla's childhood home. The record is called Yancey Boys, and it is the debut album from John "Illa J" Yancey, Dilla's younger brother by 12 years.Yancey Boys featu...

Gwen Stacy has cancelled the remainder of their tour with Unearth

A quick round-up of 808s and Heartbreak media heard in advance of the album:"Love Lockdown": Live at the VMAs, a studio version, another studio version, on Kimmel, on "Ellen", and with an official video premiered on "Ellen". "Heartless": Live in L.A. and then an unmastered studio version.The bleak "Coldest Winter", which is about Kanye'...

Hear 'Hail The Shrine' online (Rhyme lol).