Odd Future, Rita Ora, Passion Pit, Janelle Monae, Santigold, Skrillex will also play the Philadelphia weekender

The first names have been revealed for the Jay-Z-curated Budweiser Made in America Festival, taking place on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia September 1-2. As Brooklyn Vegan points out, Pearl Jam's website has announced that Pearl Jam will perform in addition to Dirty Projectors and Passion Pit. (Unfortunately, President Obama isn't on the bill just yet.) UPDATE: D'Angelo, Odd Future, Maybach Music (featuring Rick Ross, Wale, Meek Mill), Janelle Monae, Santigold, Skrillex, X, and more have been added to the lineup. The festival will benefit United Way.

Watch the brief "Made in America" teaser video Jay posted on Life + Times:

Adult Swim have commissioned a new season of the rappers' comedy programme

Who would have ever guessed that television audiences enjoy watching young men play pranks on people? So weird. Anyway, Adult Swim has announced that the Odd Future live-action prank/sketch show "Loiter Squad" has been renewed for a second season. No premiere date for the second season has been announced yet, but to tide you over, watch some clips from the first season below.

"Loiter Squad" trailer:

Tyler as Thurnis Haley in a laundromat:

Jasper Dolphin as an armless dentist:

The rapper has inked a deal to set up the Tan Cressida label

Odd Future's Tyler, the Creator hosted last night's episode of the MTV prank show "Punk'd". The full episode is available to check out now, in which Tyler does a bunch of things you could probably imagine him doing in real life, like, for example, giving away a girl's dog. He punks the Wanted, "90210" actress Shenae Grimes, and Kardashian significant other Scott Disick.

Newsnight's Stephen Smith catches up with US rap group Odd Future, who give their music away for free online, but make money by focusing on merchandise.

Rapper says he like to 'piss off old white people'

The report on the hip-hop collective made the BBC look like it was resurrecting the approach of Pathe News

Is the BBC working for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All? So cringe-inducing was their coverage of the LA hip-hop collective on Tuesday's Newsnight that you're tempted to imagine the Beeb was in on the act: "How can we make Odd Future look as edgy as possible, if losing all sense of self-respect isn't an issue?"

Of course Jeremy Paxman's tired insistence that pop music has no relevance to the world whatsoever â€' "Odd Future, or as their aunties know them, the Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All expletive expletive" (what are the expletives their aunties use?) â€' is as old as the hills, but what about Stephen Smith's report on the band's recent UK visit?

In an age when all generations are supposedly cool enough for rock'n'roll and every media outlet has young reporters, there's something wonderfully anachronistic about the whole affair â€' it reminds me of the archive British Pathe footage Jon Savage has been covering for the Guardian.

Smith starts off relentlessly negative â€' "Is this the future of rock'n'roll? Teenagers queueing politely for a shop?" â€' and keeps up the digs throughout with references to the band's "puerile" lyrics and an implication they're ripping off fans with overpriced "merch". But in the great tradition of Bill Grundy, Smith's mocking tone suggests he's genuinely terrified by the band and...

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