For the upcoming soundtrack to The Great Gatsby, Beyoncé and André 3000 have collaborated for a cover of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black." Mark Ronson, who co-wrote the song, premiered it on his…   Read Story »

Earlier this month, Beyoncé debuted a minute-and-a-half chunk of her new song "Grown Woman" in a Pepsi ad. Apparently, that strategy worked so well that she's already repeated it, except this time…   Read Story »

As we reported earlier this year, Jay-Z had a large hand in the music component of the upcoming Baz Lurhmann's film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The tracklist for the…   Read Story »

Last month, Beyoncé effectively ripped faces off with her bizarre and excellent new single "Bow Down / I Been On." And now she's following that up with something that seems much more conventional: A…   Read Story »

A couple of weeks ago and absolutely out of nowhere, Beyoncé released the absolutely badass and aggressively weird single "Bow Down/I Been On," on which she rapped in a screwed-up voice and repped…   Read Story »

Remember last month when we made a hand-wringing post about the death of the MP3 and thereby the end of the downloadable Monthly Mix? Well, fuck it -- ZIP FILE BACK. Thank you for your comments and…   Read Story »

Beyoncé posted an aggressive new song to Soundcloud today, "Bow Down/I Been On." She simultaneously posted the above photo to Instagram. Check out the song below. It was produced by Hit-Boy, who…   Read Story »

Beyoncé's "I Miss You" is one of those records that just absolutely tears at the fabric of heartache and vulnerability. It's produced so well -- starts calm and glowing and ascends into the closest…   Read Story »

Last night, the Baltimore Ravens won the motherfucking Super Bowl. Really, for those of us who come from Baltimore, everything else that happened is a footnote: The bizarre half-hour power outage…   Read Story »

I spent three and a half years writing a Village Voice blog named after a spare line from Destiny's Child's "Soldier," so expect no objectivity here. But Destiny's Child is the greatest and most…   Read Story »