hip hop
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Scottish experimental hip hop trio Young Fathers brings the second installment of Friends of Friends’ Show Me the Future compilation series to a powerful close with the track “Effigy.” With its alternately bleeping and rumbling instrumental and its formidable flow, it’s hard to blame the label for gushing that
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With a forthcoming album on Ghostly, beatsmith Shigeto has released a new track titled “Olivia.” The album cut takes the Michigan native’s music into some beautifully ambient territory. Enjoy!
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Despite his quiet demeanor, Ka might be one of the most intense, thought-provoking, and creative MCs you run across this year. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Rapper, producer, and recent Brainfeeder signee Jeremiah Jae has dropped a new mixtape titled, Bad Jokes. The tape features production from Jonwayne, Oliver the 2nd, and Flying Lotus, as well as from Jeremiah Jae himself. Above, you can stream the breezy title track. The whole mixtape is available for free
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During a recent performance at The Stables in celebration of Sub Pop’s Silver Jubilee, recent signees clipping. performed two new tracks: “Jump” and “Or Die,” which are tracks I’m hoping make it to their first album on the famed Seattle label. Give a live to those live renditions
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Georgia-based Funk Volume MC Jarren Benton gives listeners a disconcerting look at urban life in his music video for “Life in the Jungle.” The video consists of two vignettes about robbery and drug use, culminating in nothing but an early grave. “Life in the Jungle” is taken from Benton’s
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Chicago-based hip hop artist has shared the official music video for Acid Rap cut, “Everybody’s Something.” The trippy video features a silhouetted Chance floating in space while a barrage of biological, political, and astronomical images are projected on him. You can watch a review of Acid Rap here:
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The latest offering from West Coast producer Lee Bannon is accompanied by a fittingly nocturnal, dimly lit video collage. “Hyper/Eclipse” finds Bannon continuing to explore the sounds of drum ‘n’ bass, but its choppy female vocal sample and dark atmosphere make it feel like something of a jacked-up Burial
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The collaborative duo of Kimya Dawson and Aesoprock–otherwise known as “The Uncluded”–release a new music video for what’s probably my favorite song from their new album, Hokey Fright. Though the song’s lyrics are likely to get listeners to depict humans in their heads, much of the
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West Coast producer Lee Bannon is getting more and more creative and versatile by the minute. He’s constantly creating, and thinks almost nothing of just suddenly dropping a track like “InMySleep,” which combines his recent obsession with breakbeat-like grooves with some jutting bass notes and an odd chord progression.
