In 2019, LL Cool J won a lawsuit against Guerrilla Union, the promoters of the Rock The Bells festivals, over the fest’s name. Rock The Bells was named after LL’s classic 1985 song, and a judge gave LL control over that name. Last year, LL staged his own Rock The Bells festival in New York. This summer, LL is taking Rock The ...

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At the beginning of this year, we got some truly great news: De La Soul’s catalog, which includes some of the greatest rap records in history, was finally coming to streaming services, getting past all the sample-clearance issues and money disputes that had long plagued the group. A few weeks later, something terrible happened. De La S...

Sometimes, cool things just happen for no particular reason. Just go with it. St. Vincent, for instance, is in between promo cycles; Daddy’s Home, her last album, came out two years ago. Every once in a while, though, Annie Clark will pop up on late-night TV with a sick-ass cover song. Last year, she did Fleetwood Mac’s &...