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The rapper is making a profound pivot toward spiritual music.

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SOL Flowers has teamed up with Alternative Press to create a run of 864 special tokens centered around our classic covers. Check them out below. Everyone has been inspired by a trio of iconic AP covers featuring Nirvana, OutKast and Good Charlotte, and they will be split equally between the Solana and Ethereum chains. You […]

Four hundred issues after the very first book to carry our name ran off the printers back in 1985, we look back on 36 years of our favorite-ever AP covers, the stories they told and the secrets behind their creation. You can pick up an issue here, starring twenty one pilots. Read more: In issue […]

Artists can easily find themselves forced into a box, shaped by fan expectations or public assumptions about how they should sound. No matter how much some people want to break away from the norm, it’s difficult to escape from what made them big in the first place. That concern doesn’t apply to these artists, though. […]

Singer-songwriter Jutes is continuing to lead the charge on the no-genre mentality. Blending the flow of hip-hop with the grit of punk like artists such as YUNGBLUD or Machine Gun Kelly, the rising singer is dropping off his latest song, “Everyone Knows.” This past summer, Jutes released his debut single “Start Over” with Capitol Records. […]

If you’ve ever felt old listening to younger people talk about their music tastes, the 2019 NBA draftees are about to make you feel even older. ESPN quizzed some of the up-and-coming players about the ’90s and they had no idea who former AP cover stars OutKast were. Read More: Soundgarden, Hole and more suing […]

Waiting at the airport is awfully dull, but an NPR radio producer got the surprise of a lifetime when André 3000 showed up. Antonia Cereijido spotted the Outkast member wandering around the terminal playing the flute, and after 40 minutes of trying to figure out if it was really him, she went and asked. Read […]

André Benjamin is known primarily as André 3000, one-half of hip-hop duo Outkast, but this September, Benjamin will take on a new role: that of Jimi Hendrix in the film Jimi: All Is By My Side. The biopic covers one year in Hendrix's life, 1966-1967, as the then relatively unknown guitarist moves from New York City to London, eventually ending up at California's Monterey […]