The new Flying Lotus feels like Quasimoto (Madlib, not hunchback) getting high with a pack of soulful, clattering aliens. See for yourself at MySpace, where a girl vs. worm .gif provides apt visual accompaniment.

Beck's having so much fun with other people's songs, he's decided to stream a weekly mix on his website. The inaugural "Planned Obsolescence" includes tracks by Madlib, Upsetters, Broadcast, Comets On Fire, DJ Spooky, and (you guessed it) Michael Jackson among others. Check the get-fresh flow.

Madlib pays tribute to the sadly departed J Dilla, a producer with whom he'd forged a mutual stylistic compatibility, one that began with beat-tape trading by mail and resulted in the underground classic Champion Sound.read more

-- The forthcoming Red Hot benefit compilation Dark Was the Night (out on 4AD February 17 in the U.S. and February 16 in the UK) features, like, every band Pitchfork covers. A few of those bands will be on hand this Friday, February 6, to DJ the album's New York release party. The party jumps off at the downtown bar Stanton Public, and members ...

The psychedelic jazz composer David Axelrod (pictured) is not the same David Axelrod who masterminded Barack Obama's presidential campaign, but this Axelrod is more important for our purposes here at Pitchfork. This Axelrod got his start producing ridiculously lush soul records for Lou Rawls before going on to work his swirl on weirdos as divers...