billy woods Archives

The best rap records of the past 20 years.

‘I Guess You Had to Be There’ is out Friday

Mandy, Indiana are releasing their sophomore album URGH this Friday via Sacred Bones. And before…

A year in records, from folk to jazz, rap to metal, rock to electronic, and beyond.

The best bangers and ballads, rippers and dirges of an exhausting year

A new reworking of ‘Golliwog’, in time for Halloween

A look back at some of the best albums of the first half of the year

woods navigates a stunningly unsettling gauntlet of horrors on a bold, chilling new set of songs

Plus Mclusky, Deradoorian, Cole Pulice, History Dog, and Shearling

Plus PremRock, Blanket, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Hedvig Mollestad Trio, and Gösta Berlings Saga

Hear “Misery,” produced by Kenny Segal

From prolific underground rap vets to mainstream up-and-comers

50 records from a year that overwhelmed us with great music

Our favorite songs from an eclectic year

We look back at 20 years of albums of the year!

Looking over the past six months of outstanding new music

We pick 10 favorites from two decades of hip-hop innovation

The emcee and producer’s second team-up, an album of surrealist travelogues, is at once introspective, funny and affecting

Plus Wolf Eyes, billy woods & Kenny Segal and Mammatus

Plus Geld, Jessie Ware, Danny Paul Grody and Mandy, Indiana