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Mastodon Portray "Wildlings" o...

Photo courtesy of Helen Sloan/HBO Mastodon band members Brann Dailor, Bill Kelliher, and Brent Hinds portrayed “wildlings” on tonight’s episode of “Game of Thrones”, which was filmed in Belfast in Northern Ireland. As previously reported, the band’s original song “White Walker” is featured on the “Game of Thrones” mixtape Catch the Throne Vol. 2, but in the instance of their physical appearance, a press release from Reprise Records reports that the band was personally invited to participate in the show by...
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Arca Shares New Track "Vanity"

On the heels of his recently-shared track “Washed Clean”, Arca has shared another new track called “Vanity”, which his soundcloud page says is “off upcoming 7″ “. Listen to it above via the Fader.  Update 6/1 8:02 AM EST: The single’s NSFW cover art has earned Arca an Instagram ban, according to his Twitter: Jesse’s art for vanity got my instagram account deleted forever. this is the world we live in. pic.twitter.com/srGXtWQdtO — Arca (@arca1000000) June 1, 2015 Read our Update feature with...
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Kendrick Lamar Invites Salad Company CEO...

Recently, Kendrick Lamar has been inviting fans on stage to help him perform “m.A.A.d city”. Last night during his headlining spot at Sweetlife Festival, he invited a guy named Jonathan on stage to do the song. Shortly after they got started, Lamar stopped the song and had the guy escorted off the stage. Turns out, “Jonathan” is Jonathan Neman, CEO and co-founder of Sweetgreen—the company behind the festival and the Lamar-themed salad “Beets Don’t Kale My Vibe”. Watch video below via Fader. After Neman got shooed off the stage, a...
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Kamasi Washington Performs The Epic Live...

On May 4, Kamasi Washington performed the excellent three-hour album The Epic in its entirety at the Regent Theater in Los Angeles. To bring the album to life, he was accompanied by his band the Next Step (featuring Thundercat) plus a full choir and string section conducted by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. (The lineup is listed here.) The show was filmed for NPR’s “Jazz Night in America” series and condensed into a two-hour documentary featuring interviews with Washington, his band, and his father Rickey Washington. Watch it...
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Kanye West Gives Speech at Los Angeles T...

Yesterday, Kanye West stopped by the Gold Thimble Fashion Show at Los Angeles Trade Technical College – where he once taught a course, as Complex points out – to address the fashion students. While the eight-minute speech was neither as formal nor as long as his lecture at Oxford earlier this year, ‘Ye still found time to fit in plenty of wisdom regarding ambition, creativity, striving for excellence and fending off the haters. Check out the entire speech below via Hot New Hip Hop. West’s speech addressed the problems practically every artist faces in the...