Hip-hop

De La Soul announce new album, and the Anonymous Nobody…

De La Soul recently commemorated the 25th anniversary of their 1991 album De La Soul…

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Clams Casino announces new album, 32 Levels

Michael Volpe, better known as Clams Casino, is releasing his first new set of music…

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Chance the Rapper : Coloring Book

The Chicago emcee’s highly anticipated third mixtape is an infectious collection of soulful, joyous hip-hop.

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Da Art of Storytellin’: Sounds of the city

A few days before I sat down to write this month’s column, my partner and…

THEESatisfaction have broken up

THEESatisfaction have broken up. The Seattle-based hip-hop duo of Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White, whose…

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Dälek : Asphalt for Eden

Buy at iTunes Noise has long been nipping at the heels of hip-hop for decades,…

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Chance the Rapper releases new mixtape, Coloring Book

Chance the Rapper has just released a new mixtape, titled Coloring Book. It’s his long-awaited…

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Death Grips : Bottomless Pit

With the Internet rapidly transforming from a kind of Wild West to a corporate playground…

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Listen to the new Death Grips album, Bottomless Pit

Death Grips have just released their new album, Bottomless Pit. The band has just posted…

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Drake : VIEWS

It must have been nerve-wracking for Drake to see arguably the biggest musician—scratch that—biggest star…

Drake VIEWS review

Drake’s VIEWS is out now

After a long period of teasing its eventual release, Drake‘s new album Views has finally…

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Egyptian Lover : 1983-1988

Buy at iTunes The 1984 release of Egyptian Lover‘s “I Cry (Night After Night)” represented…

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A$AP Ferg : Always Strive and Prosper

Buy at iTunes One of the major fallacies about hip-hop believed by those who don’t…

Dälek Asphalt for Eden

Dälek stream new album, Asphalt for Eden

On Friday, New Jersey industrial hip-hop (and shoegaze and noise, etc.) outfit Dälek return with…

Da Art of Storytellin’ : Ladies First

I wouldn’t shock anyone if I said that rap is a largely male-dominated genre. Not…

Digable Planets

Digable Planets announce tour

Last winter, Digable Planets reunited for a handful of shows just around New Year’s Eve,…

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Listen: DJ Shadow teams up with Run the Jewels on “Nobody Speak”

On June 24, DJ Shadow will release his new album, The Mountain Will Fall, via…

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10 Essential Native Tongues tracks

For a certain generation of listeners coming up in a certain era—the late ’80s and…

Lushlife Ritualize

Lushlife : Ritualize

The Philadelphia emcee/producer brings together a good team, but feels like a guest on his own album.

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Kendrick Lamar : untitled unmastered.

Lamar’s Butterfly-era demos are equally impressive, if rawer and more diaristic.