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Tyler, the Creator is staging Camp Flog Gnaw 2024 in Los Angeles this weekend on Saturday, November 16th, and Sunday, November 17th. If you can’t make it in person, Amazon Music is hosting a livestream with select performances from the stacked lineup.

The schedule hasn’t been posted yet, but performers slated for the 10th anniversary event include Tyler himself and fellow Odd Future members Earl Sweatshirt, Syd, Mike G, and Domo Genesis, as well as André 3000, Erykah Badu, DJ Mustard, Vince Staples, Playboi Carti, Denzel Curry, Schoolboy Q, and Doechii.

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Other notable acts include ScHoolboy Q, Faye Webster, Daniel Caesar, Raye, Sampha, The Marías, Kaytranada, Blood Orange, Omar Apollo, Jean Dawson, Sexxy Red, The Alchemist, Yves Tumor, Ma$e, Action Bronson, Kenny Mason, Mike, and Wisp, plus a tribute to Mf Doom.

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Tyler, the Creator has revealed the lineup for Camp Flog Gnaw 2024 via a crossword puzzle on the festival’s website.

Alongside Tyler himself, the 2024 Camp Flog Gnaw lineup includes former Odd Future running mates Earl Sweatshirt, Syd, Mike G, and Domo Genesis, André 3000, Erykah Badu, DJ Mustard, Vince Staples, Playboi Carti, Faye Webster, Denzel Curry, Daniel Caesar, Raye, Sampha, The Marías, Kaytranada, ScHoolboy Q, Blood Orange, Omar Apollo, Jean Dawson, Sexxy Red, The Alchemist, Yves Tumor, Doechii, Ma$e, Action Bronson, Kenny Mason, Mike, and Wisp, plus a tribute to Mf Doom.

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This year marks the 10th anniversary of Tyler’s hip-hop festival, which will go down November 16th and 17th at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California.

Tickets to Camp Flog Gnaw are sold out, however, fans can join a ticket waitlist via the festival’s website. Alternatively, fans can look for tickets via StubHub,...

In 2014, Pasadena rapper Big Hit was ready to capitalize on his newfound freedom and pursue music alongside his son Hit-Boy, the Grammy-winning producer who’s laced Kanye West, Jay-Z, and others with chart-topping hits. Big Hit had been incarcerated since Hit-Boy was three years old, including a 15-year federal sentence which included a five-year period where the two had no contact due to prison restrictions. They had some jail visits throughout his incarceration, but Big Hit’s freedom represented a chance for a more holistic relationship.

But right when he...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Drake and J. Cole team up for a rap “superbowl,” Nigerian pop star Tems returns with her first track in two years, and Megan thee Stallion shares a soundtrack cut. Plus, Jennie of Blackpink’s first solo single, Bizarrap enlists Milo J for his latest explosive session, and a cool B-side from Paramore.

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Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist have brought their long-awaited joint album, Voir Dire, to major streaming services after initially only making it available on the Nft platform Gala Music. Stream it via Apple Music or Spotify below.

In the days leading up to its original release, The Alchemist drummed up anticipation for the project on his Instagram account. After sharing a brief audio clip, he teased the tracklist and announced a joint show at the Jazz Cafe in London taking place on August 25th.

Besides the album’s sole single, “Sentry” featuring Mike, the only place to hear the full project at first was Gala, a streaming platform that utilizes blockchain technology and offers NFTs connected to releases. Earl and The Alchemist later released the video for another track, “The Caliphate” featuring Vince Staples, before bringing the full album to streaming on October 6th.

Fans have been anticipating a joint...

The Venture Bros. is finally back in a new movie, titled The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart, and the most recent news only deepens the hype. First debuting in 2004, the program became one of the longest-running original series on Adult Swim before its unexpected cancelation in 2020. In order to answer the myriad of questions created by the season 7 finale, Adult Swim and Max have produced a feature-length movie to act as a concluding chapter.

The Venture Bros. has birthed a strong fanbase and is often considered to be among the best Adult Swim shows. Created as a send-up of 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoons, the series followed members of the Venture family, including disappointing super-scientist and father Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture and his twin sons Hank and Dean Venture. It was created by Chris "Jackson Publick" McCulloch (The Tick) and musician Doc Hammer, who return to co-write...

Taylor Swift makes history at the 3rd Annual Gold Derby Music Awards for the most awards won in a single year by an artist. Out of her 11 nominations, she prevailed eight times, including Artist of the Year, Record of the Year (“All Too Well”), and Song of the Year (“All Too Well”), categories she has won every year of the GDMAs so far. But just like last year, she couldn’t take that sweep all the way to Album of the Year. Scroll down for the complete list of winners in all 22 categories, and watch the video announcement above.

SEE2023 Grammy predictions: Album of the Year

About 2,000 registered Gold Derby users cast their votes for the best music from the eligibility period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022 (the GDMAs follow the same calendar as the Grammys), and for Album of the Year they picked Beyonce‘s “Renaissance.” This comes a year...

Boldy James is in stable condition after the rapper was involved in a car accident earlier this week in Detroit that left him with a broken vertebrae that required surgery.

A rep for James confirmed Saturday that the rapper was involved in a “serious” two-car accident in his native Detroit on Monday, Jan. 9.

“Boldy arrived at the hospital in critical condition, suffering from broken vertebrae in his neck and orthopedic injuries,” the rep said in a statement. “After undergoing extensive surgery on his neck, Boldy has been removed from the...

Taylor Swift leads the 3rd Annual Gold Derby Music Awards nominations with 11 bids including Artist of the Year and Album of the Year for “Red (Taylor’s Version).” Scroll down to see the full list of contenders, which were decided by hundreds of music fans who registered here and cast their votes here. You can now vote for the winners effective immediately. Voting closes at the end of the day on Friday, January 20.

SEE2023 Grammy predictions: Album of the Year

Swift received bids in just about every eligible race. She swept the general field with bids for Artist, Album, Record, and Song of the Year. The last two of those were for “All Too Well (10 Minute Version),” which also scored noms for Best Music Video and Best Pop Song. She got four more nominations in the country/Americana field, and “I Bet You Think About Me,” her duet with Chris Stapleton,...

Star Trek is pretty much unique when it comes to fan-made movies and episodes that pay homage to the sci-fi series. Left alone by CBS and Paramount (as long as they don’t try to make money from them) fans build elaborate sets and even bring in recognisable Star Trek actors to produce work that is anything but amateur.

The latest hoping to go into production is Star Trek: Renegades, co-written by Jack Trevino and staring Walter Koenig, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang and Robert Picardo among others, names that will be familiar to any Star Trek fan.

Jack Trevino is no stranger to the world of Star Trek. Having written the hugely popular fan-made miniseries Star Trek: Of Gods And Men which stared a number of Star Trek actors including Walter Koenig and Nichelle Nichols. The series was awarded ‘Best Web Production 2008’ by SyFy Portal which is now Alpha Airlock.

Producer talks to Mixtape Daily about the 4/20 release, plus his updates on Mobb Deep, Roc Marciano, more.

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Mixtape Daily: Behind the Beats

The Alchemist has plenty of sonic concoctions on tap for 2011. One of the esteemed hip-hop producer's latest projects is New Orleans rapper Curren$y's Covert Coup mixtape. And while Alc is used to dropping projects that are strictly for sale, the Coup tape is a free release.

Chalk it up as a small price to pay for working with an ambitious Mc like Spitta.

"He got his own zone," Alchemist told Mixtape Daily of Curren$y. "I hadn't worked with him before that but when he worked, he works quick. Same way I work, too, which is good because we were able to knock out a couple of joints the first day and decide where it could go. I didn't know what to expect.

Adult Swim’s Dana Snyder and Fred’s Ken Plume set out to have a literate conversation between two pals, but inevitably devolve into a verbal, and funny, free-for-all full of bickering, infighting, and the special kind of male bonding that comes from conflict expressed through the podcast medium.

Actor/comedian/raconteur Dana Snyder, you’re certainly aware, is Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s Master Shake, Squidbillies‘ Granny, Minoriteam’s Dr. Wang, and The Venture Bros.‘ Alchemist. Available for weddings and bar mitzvahs (bat availability pending), you can keep tabs on him via his website, www.eyeofthesnyder.com.

Ken Plume is the editor-in-chief here at Fred. He is a friend of Dana’s, as well as his arch-nemesis.

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Ken P.D. Snydecast #160: Scratch Fever - Ken & Dana return with a rant about poor driving skills, mixed with a rant about poor parking skills. Basically, nobody should be allowed to drive,...