Cloudspeakers

While we were busy bemoaning the hypothetical death of hip-hop the past few years, perhaps we should have paid more attention to its offshoot’s relative demise. Trip-hop, a genre that has suf... Read more

It must be a weird time to be a relatively unknown rapper—a good number of them are releasing veritable torrents of mixtapes in some attempt at “making it” without having much of ... Read more

It might ostensibly work to compare Danny Seim’s collection of solitary pop to the pressing of one’s ear to a cocoon, but a close listen or two to Menomena proves that he hasn’t t... Read more

Following the sorta-baffling pop-rap of The Solution (2007), hip-hop’s greatest curmudgeon is back—minus the glossy production and James Blunt cameos—bitching out snitches and sto... Read more

In parallel to the universe and Chris Tucker, HEALTH are expanding. From their eponymous debut emanated one of last year’s better dance records: DISCO was a condensed one-time-mess of scraps ... Read more

I’ve had enough conversations with insomniac comrades to understand the brain’s “off” switch sometimes short-circuits, triggering nights-to-mornings of restless tossing and ... Read more

I’m still ambivalent on most anything Diplo and his mates (in the case of Major Lazer, Switch) produce. A lot of it grates, Brillo pad dynamics frequently encouraging anyone within earshot to creat... Read more

Jay Stay Paid was, in theory, the point where I was to cease referring to the handling of Dilla’s posthumous corpus as “tasteful.” The Shining (2006) was excusably okay because warmed-over/half-com... Read more

Through the last handful of years, the previously-maligned South has had something of a fertile rebirth, growing into a region that now indisputably houses the most compelling personalities in hip-... Read more

Before I press play on this parsing of basement-level low art, let’s get it out of our systems like so much 3 AM vomit: this fucking guy. Do we all feel better now? Probably not, I see you clutch... Read more