Artist: Childish Gambino

Sounds like some of that Danny Brown energy is rubbing off on Childish Gambino . Here's CG's performance of "Outside" from Lollapalooza. Backed by a live band and with an engaged audience to lend some vocal support, Donald gave a spirited showing. 15 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT CHILDISH GAMBINO

For the eighth time in a row, Lollapalooza returned to Chicago's Grant Park. While the festival has received its share of rain over the years (e.g. Billy Idol's mesmerizing sun shower set in 2005, The Gaslight Anthem's downpour debut in 2009, Best Coast's muddy power hour in 2011, to name a few), the grounds have never had to shut down . Yet with recent catastrophes at festivals worldwide, management took no chances and they made the right choice. Only three hours were ultimately lost and in those three hours something wild happened - there was a sense [...]

Childish Gambino, better known as Donald Glover of NBC's Community, has been a bit of everywhere lately and Lolla was no different. Last night, Gambino hit the Google Play stage for a hour set that I'm sure his fans wished was way longer. Up top, you can check out Gambino opening his set with the opening track ("Outside") from his album, Camp . Again, a special thank you to Miller Genuine Draft for looking out for FSD this year.

Incoming: Green Day, Aerosmith, Black Lips, Seal, Redd Kross, Bear in Heaven, Husky, Pitbull, Nicki Minaj, Hanni El Khatib, the Kills, Langhorne Slim, Jack White, Norah Jones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Childish Gambino, John Doe, White Denim, Andrew Bird, Tennis and more. Above: The Hype Williams-directed video for Jack White's "Freedom at 21." White brings the music from his solo debut "Blunderbuss" to the Shrine Auditorium for two shows, Friday and Saturday. Our staff picks of the week: [...]

With every summer comes great festivals, Lollapalooza has been proving this for the past 21 years. While we regret we will not be at the show this year, here are some of the bands we recommend seeing while at Grant Park: Red Hot Chili The Black Keys Black Sabbath Jack White Florence + The Machine At The Drive-In Bassnectar Avicii The Shins Passion Pit Bloc Party Miike Snow The Afghan Whigs M83 Franz Ferdinand Childish Gambino Delta Spirit Santigold [...]

Much to everyone's disappointment the underwhelming MTV Video Music Award  nominations were unveiled today. However, not everyone was disappointed in this list, mostly the kids! Lot's of amazing videos have been overlooked (once again). I will however point out a couple that are worth mentioning! My picks are: Video of the Year: M.I.A. , Best New Artist: Frank Ocean , Best Hip-Hop Video: Childish Gambino , Best Male Video: Frank Ocean, Best Female Video & Best Pop Video: Rihanna (sorry its the best one), Best Rock Video: Jack White [...]

We're big enthusiasts of A Tribe Called Quest here at The Key, so as you can imagine, we're all kinds of geeking out over Chill Moody's latest single, "A Tribe Called Nice Things." Premiered earlier today on hip-hop blog Ashley Outrageous, the song grabs an opening loop from "Scenario," the middle section pulls from "Can ... Continue reading �

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Song: Hoodie Allen - Hey Now (Prod. by Something Silent) [download here ] What's so good? Hoodie Allen has clearly established himself as one of the most successful independent artists this year. While not necessarily drumming up Mac Miller-esque [...]

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Live music picks for MONDAY JULY 30 through SATURDAY AUGUST 4, 2012. MONDAY JULY 30 / TWIN SHADOW / LEE'S PALACE / 529 BLOOR W / $25 / 19+ Twin Shadow , the stage name of New York-based musician George Lewis Jr., will be playing two shows at Lee's to kick off the week. If you're a fan of synth-heavy music that harkens back to the New Wave movement of the 1980s, this will be right up your alley. He's fresh off the release of his [...]

Childish Gambino and Chance The Rapper collaborated on "They Don't Like Me", off Gambino's recently released Royalty mixtape.  On Friday night in Charlotte N.C., the two performed the track together live for the first time.  Chance's DJ, Stefan Ponce captured some iphone footage.  Peep it below.

One of our favorite artists, Childish Gambino , is featured as this week's pick for our video of the week.  His new music video for his song "Fire Fly" is an interesting visual short film which incorporates sci-fi elements into it. If you haven't yet checked it out, make sure to listen to and download his new mixtape, Royalty , for free, which was released on July 4th. Here is the link .

Unable to attend Lollapalooza next weekend (August 3-5), but don't want to miss out on your favorite acts? You're in luck. Lollapalooza announced that they'll be streaming 48 acts live from their YouTube channel. You can watch the bands and see their stream times at Youtube.com/lollapalooza . Acts being streamed include: Friday, August 3 Yellow Ostrich Michael Kiwanuka The Black Angels Dr. Dog The War on Drugs Blind Pilot Metric Afghan Whigs Tame Impala [...]

The official schedule for this year's Austin City Limits (10/12-14) has been announced, so if you're going be sure to examine these closely and prepare yourself for the inevitable conflicts. On Friday, you might have a hard time choosing between: The Black Keys vs AVICII, M83 vs M. Ward, Florence + The Machine vs Black Lips, vs. Weezer, Alabama Shakes vs A-Track, The Afghan Whigs vs Tegan and Sara. On Saturday it cools down a bit with Jack White vs [...]

Here's a cool idea. Let's pick the youngest hardest rapper fresh out the murder capital and sit him down next to a refined comedian. They'll have a nice conversation about... things, that won't be awkward... Did Donald just say fart?

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." -Willy Wonka Andrew Bird – “Give It Away” Just when you thought clowns were the creepiest part of a child's birthday party. Allow me to introduce, Pinata Man. Bat For Lashes – “Laura” Natasha Khan takes us backstage with a ballet-dancing transvestite in this beautifully shot new music video. Alright you perverts, time to stop gawking at that album cover now. Ben Kweller – “Jealous Girl” [...]

Probably one of my favorite tracks on the Childish Gambino record & this video is weird and awesome to boot. Discover a different side Donald Glover today & support independent music by buying  HERE   (Amazon) or  HERE  (iTunes)…  Get it now.  Tweet

Click here to view the embedded video. In the above Noisey video,   Chief Keef tells Childish Gambino that the doesn't have a wallet because he likes to carry around stacks of money in his hand. They then compare photos of each other holding stacks. Chief Keef's stack is bigger. But if you think about it Donald Glover aka  Childish Gambino gets show money. And when I mean show money I don't just mean sold-out tours. I mean TV show money as in getting money from  Community  and 30 [...]

Here's a video for Childish Gambino's Fire Fly , off his  Camp project. Childish Gambino – Fire Fly (Video) is a post from: That Hip Hop Blog

Noisey has a new interview series in which they pair up two artists and just let them talk.  The series had success when A$AP Rocky and Danny Brown had a long convo, and they figured they would keep it going.  For the second pairing they sync up Chief Keef and Childish Gambino, and this conversation is every bit as awkward as you think it would be.  The end is especially hilarious when Gambino asks Keef to explain the lyric, "farts, that that shit I don't like."  Exactly.

Childish Gambino goes sci-fi for the video of Camp standout, “Fire Fly”. While I think the action on screen is too intense for the light-hearted track, this story of a guy trying to leave Earth for a better world is entertaining as hell. I would love to see this in a more complete narrative. Childish Gambino - “Fire Fly”