Hyped by some Kool-Aid-gulping outlets as "one of the greatest collaborations in hip-hop history," the four-MC weave of Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, and Eminem on a remixed version of the track "Forever," available Aug.

Fat Wreck Chords mainstays and influential metal-punks Strung Out are celebrating their 20th anniversary doing what they do best.

After last year's "Paper Planes" mania, we were beginning to think that the summer of 2009 would pass without another globe-trotting M.I.A. jam colonizing our ear drums. We shouldn't have worried.

It's been a killer week for Pearl Jam fans.

Peter Bjorn and John may be the indie rockers with the most street cred in the hip-hop 'hood.

Masters of glitchy beats and dark sonic twists, New York City's Antipop Consortium introduced a cerebral, electronica-based approach to hip-hop back at the turn of the millennium with highly acclaimed albums like 2000's Tragic Epilogue and 2002's Arrhythmia. Then they went away.