Electronic Arts just announced the soundtrack to Madden NFL 21, the latest installment of their long-running football video game series. And in addition to the Anderson .Paak x Rick Ross team-up we already posted today, there's a whole lot of other stuff. Stuff like "Backstage Pass," an unexpected collaboration between Chicago-based rapper Smino...

Drake has released a new single called "Laugh Now Cry Later" featuring Chicago rapper Lil Durk. Drake says it's off his new album, which is called Certified Lover Boy. Earlier this year, he promised that his next studio album would be out in the summer. The "Laugh Now Cry Later" music video, which was directed…

In the past few weeks, there has been a whole lot of speculation about how Kanye West, confirmed Trump supporter and official billionaire, felt about the state of the world. We have some encouraging news on that front. Yesterday, the same day that Forbes declared West the highest-paid musician of 2020, TMZ reported that West…

Jay-Z and Team Roc, the social justice arm of Jay-Z's Roc Nation management company, took out full-page advertisements in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribute, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and other newspapers around the US in dedication to George Floyd, as Rolling Stone reports.

There's a new Sun Kil Moon album coming out, which means there's a long and diaristic new Mark Kozelek song. Last year, Kozelek teamed up with Chicago multi-instrumentalist Ben Boye and Dirty Three drummer Jim White to release the album I Also Want To Die In New Orleans, and he led it off with a…