Once upon a time, I hated Company Flow. Their music sounded like rap as rigid noise-attack, all funless bellowing and construction-site clang. El-P’s solo yammer “Patriotism” was the one track I always skipped on the great Rawkus compilations Soundbombing II. Whenever his voice showed up on the underground rap album...

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Motion Family‘s new video for Jackie Chain’s Alabama trunk-rattler “Parked Outside,” like the song that accompanies it, works as a celebration of tricked-out ancestral American automobiles. As rap videos go, it’s not exactly revolutionary, but Motion Family know how to film the usual rap-video sc...

Here’s “Champagne Coast,” another new Devonté Hynes track from his Domino LP Coastal Grooves. It’s another fine example of Dev’s way with smeary, bedroom Prince atmosphere and tasteful font/art choice. The record first full-length under his Blood Orange moniker (previously: a mixtape and 7&#...

Carson Daly will be going Greek this week with The Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie, Atmosphere and Thievery Corporation