You know this was a good week for music videos when 4Minute made a K-pop video with dancing zombies in it, one where they fight the dancing zombies by spraying hairspray at them, and it didn't even…   Read Story »

Whoo! Last month, Janelle Monáe released her Erykah Badu-assisted single "Q.U.E.E.N.," an irresistible art-funk strut. And today, we get the sort of video that makes an already-great song even…   Read Story »

In the past few years, Janelle Monáe has released a far-reaching and ambitious robo-futuristic concept album and sung on a #1 single, and the only other person to accomplish both those things in an…   Read Story »

This past weekend, Brooklyn's Commodore Barry Park hosted the eighth annual Afro-punk Festival, a two-day event offering gourmet food trucks, street art, skating and BMX competitions, and an…   Read Story »

Astral bass-music production overlord Flying Lotus is cashing in a whole lot of chips on new album Until The Quiet Comes; it's the rare LP that features guest vocals from Thom Yorke and Erykah Badu.…   Read Story »

Last week, we posted the video for "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," the Erykah Badu collaboration from the Flaming Lips' collaborative album The Flaming Lips And Heavy Fwends. The video, which…   Read Story »

When the Flaming Lips linked up with Erykah Badu for their all-collaborations album The Flaming Lips And Heavy Fwends, they recorded a cover of the old folk song "The First Time Ever I Saw Your…   Read Story »

Earlier this month, we learned that Rocket Juice And The Moon -- the unlikely and awkwardly monikered supergroup of Damon Albarn, Flea, and great Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen -- were planning on…   Read Story »

On his show last night, David Letterman played host to an interesting collection of talent: Astral soul-queen Erykah Badu, star producer Mark Ronson, legendary Meters drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, and…   Read Story »

I don't possess the very latest iPhone, and so what I've seen of that newfangled Siri feature has been friends' half-witted demos where the question posed is like "Siri, please tell me why I wake up…   Read Story »