Earl Sweatshirt: He's doing things again! On Friday, the enigmatic rap cult hero will release Some Rap Songs, his third proper solo album. We've already heard his songs "Nowhere2Go" and "The Mint," as well as his brief appearance on Vince Staples' album FM! And now we learn that Sweatshirt will show up on another record…

Back in 2014, the electronic-music alchemist Richard D. James, better known as Aphex Twin, ended basically a decade of silence with the release of the stunning comeback album SYRO. Before the release of that album, James teased it via both deep-web announcement and blimp advertisement. James has stayed busy in the years since SYRO, cranking&...

We’ve heard a couple of great songs already from the Alchemist and Oh No’s Welcome To Los Santos: “Play It Cool,” Gangrene’s collab with Earl Sweatshirt and Samuel T. Herring, and “Lock & Load,” Killer Mike and MNDR’s glitter-and-tar savagery. (We selected t...

Have you ever watched Fullmetal Alchemist? I haven’t! Luckily, I had Jordan Lee — the mind behind the beautiful chamber-folk band Mutual Benefit — to tell me all about the series, and his experience watching it with his little brother. (It’s sort of like Disney’s Life-Size, with Lindsay Lohan and...

Killer Mike has a great history with Williams Street, the production company behind Adult Swim. In fact if it wasn’t for them giving him the creative freedom to make an album any way he wanted then he never would have hooked up with BFF El-P and the world would be a much gloomier place. Now [...]