From reverb-drenched dub to hair-raising field recordings, these are the most memorable sets that the last month had to offer ...

Up considers the most notable singles of the past week. Today, Harley Geffner reviews new work from Lucki, Jackboy, and more.

Video Music Box co-founder Ralph McDaniels will be honored by the Paid In Full Foundation this weekend in Las Vegas.

Though the record is called the hermit, shemar and Sasco have a distinctly pro-social approach to their work. The duo—the former a rapper-producer whose serpentine flows are vehicles for deeply ...

Olivier Lafontant recently added 5 years of his life by eating a bowl of Frosted Flakes. Mutant Academy is the last of a dying breed. The 10-man Richmond, Virginia-based group arrived in 2015 during a ...

Every morning, I wake up in an air-conditioned room. I eat exotic fruits from far-flung regions whether they’re in season or not. As I drive myself to work cheaply and freely, I swipe through more or ...

There’s barely anything holding up the beat on YS and Lefty Gunplay’s “Still Love Me.” A few lonely xylophone notes ping around in the background as Lefty, the Baldwin Park rapper who broke nationally ...

Oakland producer and rapper OVRKAST. sits down with Jeff Weiss and Mz.Free on The Truth Hurts podcast for a wide-ranging conversation that breaks down what it was actually like to land beats on ...

I came across a tweet from Los Angeles media personality Dejon Paul arguing that every L.A. rapper today is either riffing on or extending two dominant lineages: the gang-centric, danceable G-funk ...

Fifteen years ago this spring, I was in a small ad-hoc gallery in Montréal staring at a looping video. It was about 20 seconds long, and for that 20 seconds, the camera pulls steadily back. Initially, ...