The one proper album released by Cannibal Ox — 2001′s The Cold Vein — stands as one of the best hip-hop albums of the aughts, and maybe the best album ever released on El-P’s Definitive Jux label. (I’d put it at No. 2 after El-Producto’s own I’ll Sleep When You’re De...

No Age, Black Lips, Spank Rock, El-P, Saul Williams, Tinariwen, Pere Ubu, Dan Deacon and Laetitia Sadier will all appear

“Stay Down” is the awesomely discordant Nick Diamonds collab from El-P’s great recent album Cancer For Cure. Diamonds isn’t in the song’s video, but TV On The Radio’s Jaleel Bunton steps in, playing Diamonds as some sort of celestial rock god who sends crowds into riotous fits. Those sa...

“Reagan” was the track on Killer Mike’s excellent El-P-produced album R.A.P. Music where Mike vented furious spleen at targets that included the last five presidents and Mike himself. The song now has an animated video that plays like a political paranoiac’s ecstatic fantasy, complete with giant killer rob...

One of the many, many highlights of Killer Mike’s El-P-produced album R.A.P. Music was “Anywhere But Here,” a tough and dystopian track that features the singer Emily Panic. There’s a new version of the song floating around today. This one is unchanged except with an added-on appearance from Chamillionaire...