Rebecca Haithcoat

Tyler, the Creator, and Left Brain were in the studio last night with Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of The Neptunes. If you follow Tyler even peripherally, you know what this means: We don't really care about Bieber (sorry). But PHARRELL? Consider us just as hyped as Tyler to hear......

Yes, for $899 you can be sailin' on a boat with Kid Rock. Apparently, it was sold out, but his website announced yesterday that a few spots had opened up. Last year's cruise, which was in support of his Rick Rubin-produced album, Born Free, must have been a big success:......

Originally published Monday, March 7. Updated Wednesday, March 9, 4:30PM. We have to bow to a new Based--acclaimed producer and professor 9th Wonder. Releasing "Base 4 Ya Face," a mostly other coast affair featuring Jean Grae and Phonte, he changed a few folks' minds about the ever-controversial Lil B. After......

We know Odd Future's SXSW show will be swarming with ... everybody, and admittedly, we add to that mass media feeding frenzy with our special spread in this week's print issue, out tomorrow. But we like being able to breathe a little bit (which is why we live in this......

Singer (*cough*) Gwyneth Paltrow is in talks with Atlantic Records. Her deal, Page Six reports, is worth $900,000. Well, that's not true ... yet. She apparently hasn't signed, so the figures aren't confirmed. We love/hate this rumor. In addition to winning an Oscar almost by default, doling out all sorts......

The city of Los Angeles loves the wild-haired wizard of Walt Disney Concert Hall, conductor Gustavo Dudamel. The LA Phil knows the gold mine they got with their music director--he made even us classical-music commoners stop yawning and pay closer attention (really, it's hard to doze off when he's leaping......

Last night around 8:45, former Little Brother lyricist and current Foreign Exchange crooner Phonte's Twitter timeline showed that he'd just "liked" a song on iTunes by someone named KING. Then he left a review on iTunes. He then gave thanks to the patron saint of swag, tweeting: Within an hour,......

Other rappers in L.A. make national television appearances, too, you know. The stage ain't big enough for two stars when Freddie Gibbs is on the bill, so NBC's Last Call with Carson Daly kept an appropriately low-key profile when they dropped by to film at the Troubadour last Wednesday (or......

Odd Future's goin' Hollywood. Mos Def's at their shows, they're booked on Jimmy Fallon, now they've banked a "Funny or Die" skit. We're pretty sure the scenario played out in the FOD clip is drawn from first-hand experience, but maybe we have our heads so buried in the internet's sand......