Producer and DJ Erick Morillo, best known for the 1993 hit 'I Like to Move It', has died aged 49, Local 10 reports. He began making music in the early ’90s under the name Reel 2 Real. In 1993, he collaborated with Trinidadian vocalist the Mad Stuntman for his iconic song 'I Like to Move It'. Morillo made one more album as Reel 2 Real, before launching his own label, Subliminal Records, in 1997. He released numerous singles and remixes, and an album under his own name.

Complex made a list of the 35 best hip-hop movies covering four decades of hip-hop history on celluloid. The youngest movie on the list is 'Roxanne Roxanne' from 2017, directed by Michael Larnell, telling the story of one of the first female solo rappers, Roxanne Shante. The No. 1 movie - 'Wild Style', directed by Charlie Ahearn in 1983, depicted hip-hop’s early days, offering the initial look at its four elements: MCing, DJing, graffiti, and breakdancing.

English scientists created a miniature version of the Stonehenge monument to test its acoustic properties, and discovered it amplified voices and improved the sound of any music being played for people standing within the massive circle of stones. The stones were arranged in a way that would also have prevented sound from leaking outside the circle.

Bandcamp presents Madlib's 'Medicine Show', producer's series focused on different genres and themes, featuring unreleased remixes and verses from some of Madlib’s most noted collaborators, showing Madlib at his most unrestrained. Some are straight rap albums, some go left of the field educating in obscure Brazilian music, psychedelic jazz, reggae dub and forgotten disco...

Triptych' is a single from the debut album by New York singer-songwriter Samia; Black Thought, Pusha T, Killer Mike shared an uplifting soul hip-hop single 'Good Morning'; 'The Death of Us' is a classic Lamb of God ripper from 'Bill & Ted' soundtrack; jazz but-I-really-like-hip-hop pianist Robert Glasper is back with a smooth song 'Better Then I Imagined' featuring H.E.R. and Meshell Ndegeocello; post-punk band Joanie covered Solange's 'Cranes in the Sky' "because it was such an important song for Black women"; Clipping go dark and industrial with 'Say the Name'.

Entrenched in tradition, the classic music industry has allowed its outdated systems to endure, largely unchallenged; Black musicians still make up less than two percent of the orchestral members in the US - Grammy.com reports about the important issue. One Instagram account, Orchestra Is Racist, lies at the epicenter of the movement to end racism in classics, with musicians of color coming forward to share their stories of racial injustice. The page provides a platform for musicians of color to share their stories of experienced racism in classical music, from education to orchestral hiring processes to dealings with arts' administration.

BTS have become the first all-Korean pop act to top the Billboard 100 singles chart, after their new English single 'Dynamite' reached 33.9 million in the US streams in its first week, Billboard reports. 'Dynamite' is their first song sung completely in English. The song broke records soon after its release on 21 August, with its pastel-coloured dance-heavy video reaching 101 million views on YouTube just 24 hours after its release.

Thousands of revellers have been attending illegal raves throughout the UK over the weekend, leading to clashes with police, NME reports. An event in South Wales saw around 3000 in attendance over the weekend with two organisers handed fixed penalty notices for £10,000, under thea new law. Bottles and cans were thrown at officers at police attempted to break up an unlicensed event in Thetford Forest, Norfolk on Saturday. Those attending the gatherings and who do not wear face coverings also face fines of £100, which double on each offence up to £3200.

10-year-old drum sensation Nandi Bushell challenged the Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl to a drum-off. She released a video of herself playing Foo Fighters' 'Everlong' and invited him to a drum-off challenge. He then released a video saying he was flattered by her choice and complimented her playing. However, he challenged her to a drum-off and offered her a song 'Dead End Friends' from his other band Them Crooked Vultures (Grohl + QOTSA's Josh Homme + Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones).

The Weeknd’s 'Blinding Lights' won video of the year at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. Lady Gaga won the most awards during the night - five - followed closely by Ariana Grande and BTS, with four each. See the list of all the winners and all the nominees here. The Weeknd kicked off the 2020 ceremony with a stellar performance of his hit 'Blinding Lights', performed from above Manhattan.

Taylor Swift spends a fifth straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with her pop-folk 'Folklore', becoming the first to rule for five weeks in a row at No. 1 since 2018 and Drake’s 'Scorpion', Billboard reports. Lil Baby had five nonconsecutive No 1 weeks on Billboard 200 this year with 'My Turn'. Nas and The Killers enter the top 10 as well - NYC rapper's 'King's Disease' bows at No. 5 with 47,000 equivalent album units earned, and Las Vegas stadium rockers land and No 8 with 37,000 in album sales of 'Imploding the Mirage'.

Music streaming generated $10.3 billion in revenue in the US in 2019, US households had 87.2 million subscription accounts, which, through family plans and similar packages, covered 99 million people, according to the new report by Digital Media Association (represents Amazon, Apple, Google, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube). American music fans racked up an unprecedented one trillion streams in 2019. The report predicts that U.S. music revenue will finally topple its heights-of-the-CD-empire record of $14.6 billion by 2025. Yahoo reports.

"We came around to this idea that maybe what was significant about this moment in time with records was that the person we imagined being someone who liked records was changing. And that records were becoming a people's medium rather than a weirdo's or an eccentric's medium. When Chris said, 'Well, maybe this is a story about inclusion and connection', that was the moment I leapt off the chair and said, 'That's our movie'" - co-director Kevin Smokler said about his new documentary 'Vinyl Nation' (the other co-director being Christopher Boone). It documents he rise, fall and resurgence of vinyl through the eyes of musicians, labels, manufacturers, collectors and record store clerks. It's online now.

50 Cent is developing a new police drama centered upon Derrick Parker, the "hip-hop cop" who investigated the murders of Notorious B.I.G. and Jam Master Jay, Variety reports. Dallas Jackson has created the screenplay based on Parker and Matt Diehl's book 'Notorious C.O.P.: The Inside Story of the Tupac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay Investigations from NYPD’s First 'Hip-Hop Cop''. The "Hip-Hop Squad" evolved into the "Rap Unit" a task force that currently investigates Hip-Hop related crimes and monitors rappers in and around New York City.

Fans have flocked to record stores across the UK for the first part of 2020’s three-day Record Store Day, NME reports. This weekend’s batch includes live David Bowie LP ‘I’m Only Dancing’, a picture disc vinyl copy of The Cure‘s ‘Seventeen Seconds’, a coloured vinyl reissue of Robyn‘s self-titled 2005 debut, two Christine And The Queens 7″ singles, plus releases by Bastille, The Fall, Elton John, Jake Bugg, Morrissey, Manic Street Preachers, Mansun and Primal Scream. Next to events will follow on September 26 and October 24. September event sees the likes of Britney Spears, Declan McKenna, The Doors, Ellie Goulding, Fleetwood Mac and Nas putting out exclusive releases, while October’s event welcomes releases from Beck and St. Vincent, Def Leppard, Eminem, Suede, Lou Reed, The Rolling Stones, Snoop Dogg and Thin Lizzy.

Power Trip climbed two separate Apple Music charts with their masterful trash metal, 2017 album 'Nightmare Logic', following the death of singer Riley Gale, Loudwire reports. 'Nightmare Logic' topped the Metal Albums chart, outselling classics such as Metallica’s 'Black Album' and Tool’s 'Lateralus'. Power Trip’s debut full length, 'Manifest Decimation', also surpassed those albums, hitting No. 2 on the Metal Albums chart. On the Rock Albums chart, 'Nightmare Logic' and 'Manifest Decimation' nabbed the No. 1 and No. 2 spots, respectively, outselling the Beatles’ 1 compilation and 'Greatest Hits' records by Journey, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tom Petty and Fleetwood Mac.

Sonic Youth have added 'The Whitey Album' from side project Ciccone Youth, which featured contributions from Mike Watt and J Mascis, to their Bandcamp. Ciccone Youth explored their fascination with pop culture -- and Madonna in particular -- while toying around with samplers and drum machines. The unreleased album includes a cover of Madonna's 'Into the Groove', as well as a cover of Robert Palmer's 'Addicted to Love'.

The 2020 Republican National Convention has closed out with opera singer Christopher Macchio belting out a version of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'. Brooklyn Vegan is convinced that Trump hasn't even read the lyrics, because Cohen there sings "I've seen your flag on the marble arch / But love is not a victory march / It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah". In other disrespect-related news, Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination, and when his daughter Ivanka Trump arrived on the stage to introduce her father, she did so to the soundtrack of Elton John’s 'I’m Still Standing', causing the British singer’s name to light up social media. Billboard reports many fans weren't happy.

The auction for Wu-Tang Clan's seventh studio album 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' and its notorious aftermath is being turned into a Netflix film, Collider reports. The upcoming project - named after the album - is being helmed by 'Brittany Runs a Marathon' director Paul Downs Colaizzo, and the film aims to tell the true story behind pharma-villain Martin Shkreli's acquisition of the one and only copy of Wu-Tang Clan's 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin'.

Mike Noga, the Australian singer/songwriter and former drummer with celebrated alter rock band The Drones, has died at the age of 42, uDiscover Music reports. Noga and the Drones were outright stars of Australia’s independent music scene. Their place among the elite was confirmed when their April 2005 sophomore album 'Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By' won the inaugural Australian Music Prize. After ten years, Noga left the band in 2014 to pursue a solo career. Two years later, in 2016, he released his critically acclaimed third solo set 'King'.

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are "floating with love and wonder" after "safe and healthy arrival" of their first child - a daughter named Daisy Dove Bloom. Perry's new album 'Smile' is released on Friday.

Elton John doesn't really like most of the pop songs nowadays - "there’s four or five writers on (a track). You look at most of the records in the charts – they’re not real songs. They’re bits and pieces", NME reports that Elton said to BBC Radio 6 Music. "It’s nice to hear someone write a proper song", he elaborated - "I like people who write songs. And there’s plenty of people that do but a lot of them don’t get played on the radio because they’re too sophisticated and we get songs made by a computer all the time and I’m not interested in that". The few that he does like are Father John Misty and singer/songwriter Conan Gray.

Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian says he was arrested two weeks ago and is facing trial for working with female singers and dancers, BBC reports. His new album, which is not yet complete, is due to include female vocalists - who are effectively banned in Iran. Rajabian says a judge told him his latest project "encouraged prostitution". The 30-year-old has already been imprisoned twice on charges relating to his music.

Nas has teamed up with Pantone Color Institute to create “ULTRA BLACK By Nas”, a symbolic custom color inspired by the rapper and his 'King’s Disease' cut 'Ultra Black', honoring the Black community and representing the unification of people, All Hip Hop reports. “ULTRA BLACK is unapologetically Pro-Black and pro-humanity, with Nas reimagining the sad tones of the color black to represent its richness, complexity and profound beauty. The term not only honors the Black community as the life force of culture, but is also a symbol of the fortitude, power, legacy and interconnectedness of everyone in this world. If the color black absorbs all light, ULTRA BLACK is a representation of the people’s unification, highlighting Black joy and a bright future ahead" - Nas said in a statement.

The number of babies called Dua in the UK has doubled in 2019 compared with 2017, when Dua Lipa had her first UK number one, Mirror reports. The Office for National Statistics said 126 babies were called Dua in 2019, compared with 63 in 2017. Meanwhile, Alexa has fallen since the introduction of Amazon's Echo, down from 332 in 2016 to just 39 in 2019. Oliver and Olivia are still number one in England and Wales.

Riley Gale, frontman of the acclaimed Texas thrash metal band Power Trip, has tragically died at the age of 34, Blabbermouth reported. Since their formation in 2008, Power Trip have been among the leaders of a new wave of thrash metal, with a sound bridging thrash and hardcore punk. They’ve built up a substantial following, although they only released two albums, thanks in large part to their electrifying live shows. Countless musicians, labels, festival organizers, venues, writers, photographers, and others in the hardcore and metal communities have been paying tribute to Riley - Deafheaven, Code Orange, Creeping Death, Ice-T, Hatebreed, Thursday... Brooklyn Vegan picks out 5 great live Power Trip videos. Guardian lovingly said Gale "mixed philosophy, economics and genuine empathy into a searingly potent vision for a better world".

Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell will be the subject of a new biopic called 'Black Days'. Actor John Holiday, who previously played Carl Perkins in the 'Walk the Line' film, will take the lead role as the late grunge icon. In other Cornell related news, the latest edition of Mind Wide Open, the weekly mental-health series hosted by Chris Cornell’s daughter Lily Cornell Silver, had Eddie Vedder as the guest. Pearl Jam singer opened up about grief, empathy, and activism, while also reflecting on his fallen peers.

Sotheby will host its first-ever hip-hop auction featuring two prized items from The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, Reuters reports. The September auction features 120 lots and showcases iconic artifacts, contemporary and fine art, one-of-a-kind experiences, vernacular photography, vintage and modern fashion, historic and modern jewelry and luxury goods, and rare flyers and posters. The two headlining items are the crown worn and signed by Biggie Smalls from his epochal 1997 'King of New York' photo from his last-ever photoshoot and an archive of 22 handwritten love letters that Shakur penned to his high school sweetheart.

Cardi B has launched a line of waterproof merchandise on her online shop WAP-store to cash in on the success of her hit Megan Thee Stallion single. There is a transparent pink "WAP" raincoat ($125), which also comes in white and black, as well as black and pink "WAP' umbrellas ($25) and a "WAP" crop biker set ($40) that comes with a nylon spandex bra with the song title airbrushed on the front and bike shorts with the name on the butt...

Musical and creative impresario Will Coloan has made an AfroBeat remix of Stevie Wonder's 1976 song 'Black Man' that recollects many accomplishments from black men of all hues. In the accompanying Coloan features dozens of contemporary black men of distinction - Barack Obama, Denzel Washington, Jay-Z, Kobe Bryant, and many, many more (the video lists them all).