Open Mike Eagle Archives

Hear “Unfinished Concrete Initials”

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 catalog of 21st century frustrations and trauma set to a gorgeously soothing set of productions

Introducing our new hip-hop column, with a selection of must-hear beats and rhymes

Plus Ratboys, Open Mike Eagle, The Cowboys, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Pleasure Forever, and jaimie branch

Plus Armand Hammer, Raw Poetic, Ratboys, Open Mike Eagle, Daniel Villarreal and Mary Lattimore

Our favorite anthems, bangers, ballads and rippers of the past year

A love letter to tapes, hip-hop, and hip-hop tapes

Plus Open Mike Eagle, Ganser, and Abraxas

‘Component System with the Auto Reverse’ due out Friday

Plus G Perico, Daedelus, matthewdavid and more.

20 highlights from the year’s embarrassment of hip-hop riches.

Hear new single “Bucciarati.”

A decade of slappers.

10 Albums that brought the beats and science this year.

A look back at some of the best records that we missed the first time around in 2014.

Jeff and A.T. discuss the albums that slipped under our radar in 2014.